How to create a HDR file from set of image files?

Question

I have many JPEG image files for the same scene with different exposure setting. How to create HDR file using them in Ubuntu 12.04amd64.

Answer 1

You can use Luminance HDR.

Supported features

• Create an HDR file from a set of images (formats: JPEG, TIFF 8bit and 16bit, RAW) of the same scene taken at different exposure setting;
• Save load HDR images;
• Rotate, resize and crop HDR images;
• Tonemap HDR images;
• Copy exif data between sets of images;
• Supports internationalization.

Tnstall Luminance HDR in ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install luminance-hdr

Source and more information

Answer 2

I suggest you use the package enfuse:

sudo apt-get install enfuse

Then change to the directory with the photos:

cd ~/Photos/HDRstack
enfuse -o result.jpg --exposure-weight=1 --saturation-weight=0 --contrast-weight=0 --hard-mask *.jpg
gimp result.jpg

Find out about more options:

man enfuse