Suddenly 2 months go by and I don’t have any posts to show for it. For shame.
My current project is to finally sort through all of the photos that I’ve taken over the years. The side benefit(even if I don’t finish) would be to have a few images with getting a print of to decorate my house. I also had the foresight(or pure masochistic desire) to take many multiple image sets for future postprocessing via HDR or panoramic stitching. Using Google’s Picasa for a cross platform management software, the most notable limitation was that I couldn’t easily pass sets of photos to Photomatix. A bit of research on Google’s API enabled me to create a button that will automagically open Photomatix with the files in my Picasa tray.
You can install my little button using this link(assuming that you have Picasa installed). Ironically the link doesn’t actually work with Google’s Chrome browser.
But since no one actually cares about my ramblings, here’s a nice HDR photo from my trip to Jiuzhaiguo in 2008:
#1 by Mil on January 23, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Works! I selected the files I wanted to process, clicked on the Photomatix icon in Picassa, the software loaded and the rest is HDR.
If this was easy to do, can it be done with any software program. I would like to add Noiseware Community as an add-in.
Thank you for the software. A real time saver.
#2 by Lee on January 25, 2010 - 4:35 pm
It’s pretty easy to do actually, the main problem is that it needs a fresh registry id for each one. I think I made versions of this for Photomatix, as well as the Microsoft Image Compositor(panorama stitcher). If there’s any particular apps that people might want, I should be able to throw one together without too much trouble(the automated solution would be best, but probably not worth the effort).