Enfuse Lightroom Crack Serial Number
Catarina Marsalis
I've been using Enfuse for some time now for real estate photography, and I'm having some troubles now...I just picked up a new computer, so I had to reinstall Lightroom and the Enfuse plugin, and both seem to be working just fine. I'm taking photos with a Canon 5D and a very stable tripod, so there is no shake or blurriness at all. However, when the photos go through the whole Enfuse process, they look how they should for the most part, except for one issue - they seem to have this kinda blurry effect in some areas, as if the images aren't aligned.
Does anyone know what the issue could be here? I haven't uninstalled / reinstalled it yet, perhaps I'll try that, but I'm puzzled as to why it's not working like it did before. Any help/input would be much appreciated!
Thanks for the reply, that's exactly what I thought the issue could be...I've tried it with both on and off several times, and I keep getting the exact same result. Here are a few examples, cropped down to where the blurring is happening...
This is an Enfuse alignment issue. Please post a Grid View screenshot of the bracketed image files you're using. I suspect one or more of the images has an issue that Enfuse has trouble aligning. Check each individual image file at 1:1 View for any visible blurring using compare mode as follows:
LR's PhotoMerge to HDR applies no settings to the bracketed image files. Camera Profile and Transform settings applied to only some of the bracketed image files will not cause any issues. Settings in the "most selected" bracketed image file is applied to the HDR DNG after it is created.
LR's Edit In> Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop applies Camera Profile and Transform settings along with numerous other settings. Settings applied unequally to the bracketed image files will cause the same issue observed with the Enfuse plugin.
I've tried the solutions listed in this conversation but still getting the blurred images. Looks like the newer version of Lightroom Classic does not align images in the same stack like the older version of LRC. Is there an easy work around...or???
What "Transform" tool within LrClassic? Or, did you mean LR/Enfuse's own Alignment option? I suggest, rely on one, or the other, not both. If setting this within LR/Enfuse then supply un-cropped, un-rotated and un-Transformed input. It's OK I think to apply Lens Correction but I suggest deferring perspective or compositional changes. You can apply those things nondestructively, later, onto the fused result image.
In the Develop Module, there is a section named "TRANSFORM" in the right rail. Under that, you can select, Off, Auto, Guided, Level, Vertical, Full. Prior to selecting one of these options, under the "Lens Correction" section, I select "Enable Profile Corrections" and "Auto Sync". Then after I make color/exposure/white balance, etc corrections, I Enfuse the images. The Enfused images all come out blurry (note that my RAW files are not blurry - they are all fine). I also noted that after importing my bracketed exposures (5 for example) into LRc, I can see slight alignment issues with each image within the 5 bracketed shots. Previous versions of LightRoom Classic have worked fine. It wasn't until I upgraded to 11.3.1 when I had the blurred issues. Is there going to be a fix for this?
OK, that is clear. The options you mention such as Auto, Vertical etc sit under the heading of "Upright" and this feature auto-builds a separate transform for each image, working from an analysis of that image's individual content and using some degree of fuzzy logic. It does not coordinate what correction it applies, across a series of images - IOW it does not seek to achieve exact alignment between them. Rather, it will tend to make them further diverge in real-world conditions. I would speculate that with a bracketed sequence, different picture information is accordingly acting as input to that analysis even if the camera was fixed on a tripod and the subject unmoving. The outcome from Upright corrections by the name: never guaranteed identical across similar shots anyway, precisely because the name does refer to a fuzzy and per-image process.
The other kinds of Transform CAN be synced by the numbers and then their effects would be consistent. That said, I still suggest Enfuse should be supplied unstraightened "natural perspective" shots to work with, including its own apples-with-apples alignment assuming you select that option.
Then you can later carry out a single Upright operation onto the finished fused result, once that re-imports to the Catalog. Also, explore multiple variations on Upright, crop etc via virtual copies, if you want. By deferring all that presentational stuff till afterwards, it can occur nondestructively then. It won't have been hard committed into the Enfuse operation.
Ah! Thanks for the explanation and understand most of it. What do you mean by "synced by the numbers"? Also, do you mean that I make color/light/white balance first (within my 5 image stack), Enfuse them, have the Enfused image go back into Lightroom, and then use the Transform/Auto align tool on the Enfused image?
Sorry if I was unclear - I meant that the manual Transform sliders such as Vertical and Horizontal perspective rotation, work by numbers. These number values can be synced between two images and will have the same effect for each. However if you have one image where you chose "Vertical", then make another image "Vertical" too, each one will reach its own conclusion on what a request for "Vertical" by name, should look like. To complicate this there are ways to sync the particular transform formula that the first image has employed, rather than the mere fact that a "Vertical" correction has been asked for, onto the second image.
But in any case I would suggest leaving any operations that are not necessarily relevant to the Enfuse merging itself, to happen later. Then you will only have to postprocess one merged image, in those respects, and can then continue reconsidering them, all nondestructively.
There is a point when using LR/Enfuse: you can save the output as a JPEG or TIFF (16 bit). When I import enfused photos to LRC, lens info is missing (Sony FE 12-24mm f4 in my last case), so all of the shots are distorted and I cannot find the way to auto correct them :-(.
I can offer no helpful advice about your issue with enfuse. However, one piece of general editing advice is that you should avoid working with jpg images and should in fact be using tiff images after converting your RAW files. JPGs are compressed files that do not remember the value of individual pixels where as uncompressed tiff files will remember the value of an individual pixel. I usually edit my RAW files and export as 16 bit tiff files for further editing in programs like GIMP or for archival storage.
Thank you for the advice. I tried both of your suggestions. First I turn those RAWs to .tifs and converted via enfuse my image with using weight on exposure to 0.8 into again .tif. I am not going to upload this image as it is almost similar to that I have already uploaded (a bit more lightened in all aspects) as it came to bbe 125Mb in size.
Here is a screen shot from lightroom. Even it is struggling with the very bright highlights. This may be because of the intermediate jpg files. I usually would merge the raw files in Lightroom. I will try enfuse next. I apologize for using a commercial program on a FOOS forum, but I am just trying to use Lightroom as a bench mark for your images.
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@Terry Yes the highlights are quite what I was looking for on your images. And I did try to bring those back from the .tif image using RawTherapee without success. What it was burned it did not come back. As I understand many have tried enfuse before trying to blend HDR images with partial success.
@jorismak Yes that might be an option. Specially using only a narrower range than all of the 5 photos I took in bracketing mode. The --hard-mask is something that I might always use since it gives better results that the default --soft-mask one.
@Terry A very nice result with GIMP indeed! I do use that technique myself when there is no good results on merging HDR photos otherwise. As I remember correctly I used a couple of videos to extract info from YouTube and kept notes blending those techniques. Very nice result the one you came up with Terry!
Just using the defaults indeed clips the highlights at the lamp. Adding --saturation-weight=1 (or some other value, in any way add saturation to the mix) helps in telling Enfuse that you rather not keep pixels that have no colour in there.
As a quick test, I loaded all the JPGs into Affinity Photo 2 to do an HDR merge, and I do get a nicer result with less tinkering. So Enfuse (at least with those processed JPGs as input) is a bit finicky to work with. Or someone must master the tool more :).
Latest release is 8.5 years old? Wow. There are commits up to last January, but 2015 is the newest released version (at least, in installer form for Windows). Then again I can get lost in Github so I may be overlooking a newer download.
Absolutely not FOSS , but you could buy Affinity Photo one time And use it for merging . You can then process it, but also just Dave it unprocessed as 32bit floating point tiff, or an EXR file or something. Open it in rawtherapee / Darktable and process further .
There are many HDR software out there and some of the top ones can cost you over $100. But all of those cannot create the same natural HDR results that this donationware plugin can. If you want the most natural HDR images, then you need to read this Lightroom tutorial.
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