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(no subject) Gary Hunt 13 Jan 14:25
  (no subject) Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Jan 23:10
Gary Hunt
2014-01-13 14:25:29 UTC (over 10 years ago)

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Please help. I'm new to GIMP and found where to download the HDR plugin to GIMP 2.8. However, when it comes to how to do some of these things I'm a complete idiot. Not real good with computers for the most part so if I could get someone to provide me the step by step process to download and get added to GIMP I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

Gary Hunt

Alexandre Prokoudine
2014-01-13 23:10:43 UTC (over 10 years ago)

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13 . 2014 . 23:48 "Gary Hunt" :

Please help. I'm new to GIMP and found where to download the HDR plugin

to

GIMP 2.8. However, when it comes to how to do some of these things I'm a complete idiot. Not real good with computers for the most part so if I could get someone to provide me the step by step process to download and

get

added to GIMP I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi Gary,

Your mail won't be complete without telling us which plugin exactly you downloaded :) A link to the page you downloaded it from would help to give a proper advice.

Also, being a smart pants, I can't help myself noticing that you seem to have fallen into the trap of oversimplistic HDR definition :)

Strictly speaking, true HDR is impossible in GIMP until version 2.10 is out with high bit depth support. What you are really trying to do is merging exposures to make both dark and light parts appears distinguishable enough in a single picture.

Depending on your operating sysem of choice, source file format (jpeg, tiff, various raw formats), and the way you take different exposures (shooting several pictures from tripod, manually adjusting brightness of a single jpeg picture) there could be better ways to do what you aim to do than using any plugin for GIMP that claims to do HDR (which it really doesn't).

Alexandre