by markdfink » Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:03 pm
I figured out why I was able to blend images using the plugin when I wasn't able to blend those directly from SNS HDR. When I stitched the images together in PTGui, it had alpha channels, but when I run the plugin, it takes those TIFF files and converts them on the fly, stripping out the alpha channels. Now that I know this, I can just stitch without the alpha channels and I can work with the files by drag and drop or via the Lightroom plugin.
What I have noticed with the plugin is that I can't export the sns preset file parameters or save to anything other than TIFF. What I like to do is save a copy of the parameters in the same folder as the source images in case I ever need to recreate an image, especially those where I have done significant tweaking of the parameters to get just the right look. It would be nice to be able to have the full save as options from within the plugin.
Thanks,
Mark