Enfuse: Will Not Re-Import Photo To Lightroom 4

[Eightysevens]

Does anybody have a solution for getting 'Enfuse' to re-import an image after blending?

I get the following error message:

 

AgImportSession.addOnePhotoToLibrary: failed to import photo to library

 

I checked the reimport option, added an appended file name & optimised the catalogue.

 

The only way I can work around this is to go to it's prime source folder destination in ViewNX, rename it (because LR thinks it's already in the catalogue by detecting it's original file name prefix, even though appended), import it back to LR and manually relocate it beside the original source images from which it was blended. This is obviously too long-winded.

 

There's nothing covering this issue amongst the Enfuse websites FAQs (the page of which is almost 4 years out of date) & their website has no contact email address I can see.

 

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Carl von Einem]

Hey, that's an error message from Lightroom. So Lightroom fails to
import/update, not Enfuse. I think you need to make Lightroom update its
own catalogue based on the modification date or other EXIF values of the
new files.

So how exactly do you alter the file name of the output from enfuse? I'd
expect something like
my-image_001.tif + my-image_002.tif
-> my-image_001-002_enfused.tif

How do you get the idea that some software (like enfuse) actively
"imports" files into a different software?

Carl

Eightysevens schrieb am 02.01.14 12:24:

[Eightysevens]

Thanks for your reply Carl.

Are familiar with 'Enfuse'? It's a plug-in for Lightroom. Re-import is a set-up option within the plug-in. So that when 2 images have been blended together the result is added to ones original primary hard drive file (outside LR), plus re-imported back to LR to sit beside the 2 photos it was blended from. I've seen this on a couple of youtube tutorials.

I don't alter the file name, the plug-in software does that automatically (when option is set) including appendage, in this case '-enfuse'.

[Carl von Einem]

You are referring to LR/Enfuse [1], right?
That plug-in comes from a third party, not from the people who developed
enfuse [2].
You'll have to ask the guy who asks for donations for a plug-in based
entirely on Open Source Software. It was mentioned on this list before,
though [3]

For alternatives see http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse

[1] <http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrenfuse.php>
[2] <http://enblend.sourceforge.net/>
[3]
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hugin-ptx/9Sv5eYcnCXo/discussion>

Eightysevens schrieb am 02.01.14 13:57:

[Eightysevens]

Okay. So the software have, LR/Enfuse, is an interface to another piece of software called 'Enblend/Enfuse', which I don't  currently have.

Right, I've downloaded Enblend/Enfuse. But there're no installation instructions.

I guess this is going to be trickier than it ought to be...I'll see if I can get this up & running.

Thanks very much for your time and input Carl.