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http://gl.ict.usc.edu/HDRShop/tutorial/tutorial2.html
To specify your calibration images, click on the "Select Image Sequence" button. The "Select Calibration Image Sequence" dialog box will open:
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Click on the Load Images button to select files to add to your sequence. Loaded files are sorted automatically based on the "sort" column, which initially stores the average pixel value. You can change the values in that column to rearrange the files if they are not in the correct order. Now you need to enter an exposure for each image in the sequence. You can enter the data in four different formats, corresponding to the four different columns. "Abs. Stops" for example, is the exposure of each image in absolute stops. "Rel. Stops" is the exposure difference in stops relative to the previous image. The scale columns store values in terms of their linear scale multiplier. If the entire sequence is taken at a certain stop increment, you can choose one of the "Preset Scale Increments".
If you accidentally select and open the wrong files you can simply highlight them and click the Remove button.
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By default, you are entering values for all three channels (Red, Green and Blue) simultaneously. If you want to enter different values for each channel, you can select R, G, or B in the "Select Channel(s)" box to enter values there. This is mainly useful if you are using filters to control the exposure level, as even supposedly "Neutral Density" filters are not always entirely neutral (that is, they tend to block more blue light than red light). Once all the information on the images that make up the sequence is correct press the Ok button. The image data will be loaded and you will be returned to the Calibrate Camera Response Curve dialog box. At this point, you can start the iterative solver by pressing the "Go" button.
The blue crosshairs in the middle allow you to control the scale on the curve. It has no effect on the solver, it just lets you inspect different areas of the curve. You can choose the valid pixel range by moving the blue arrows at the bottom of the graph. In this case, the camera is clamping pixels at a very low value of around 160, which is confusing the solver somewhat. If we move the right arrow down to ignore values greater than 160, the curve collapses into a good solution:
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If need be, you can apply a regularization factor (i.e. smoothing) to the curve to get rid of any bumps that you think are not part of the actual curve. Simply click the 'regularize' checkbox to turn on smoothing, and adjust the degree of regularization with the slider:
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Once you have a curve you like, you can stop the solver and save the curve to a file for later reference.
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