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Bracketeer is a front-end GUI for Enfuse. Enfuse is a command-line freeware utility which uses multiple exposures of a scene (bracketed exposures) and merges them together to form a uniformly lit scene. It is similar to tonemapping with an HDR image except that no HDR image is ever created, and there is no ghosting. It works with any kind of bracketed image set, not just panoramic equirectangular images. The results are almost always much better than anything that can be achieved with Photoshop's HDR ToneMapping.
What's New
Version 4.3.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:24,812 |
| Version Downloads:9,741 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Author Tools |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:04 Jun 2011 |
| Platform:Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $19.95 |
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Bracketeer is a front-end GUI for Enfuse. Enfuse is a command-line freeware utility which uses multiple exposures of a scene (bracketed exposures) and merges them together to form a uniformly lit scene. It is similar to tonemapping with an HDR image except that no HDR image is ever created, and there is no ghosting. It works with any kind of bracketed image set, not just panoramic equirectangular images. The results are almost always much better than anything that can be achieved with Photoshop's HDR ToneMapping.
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That said, you're probably thinking about tone mapping, which exaggerates colors and contrast in images. I haven't downloaded your software, but the screenshot you used looks very tone mapped to me. Before anyone corrects me, it's just my opinion, which you can take or leave. I'm not talking about the fake cloud/smoke over the image, I'm talking about the underlying image.
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pmj7 reviewed on 01 Sep 2009
1. Drag the 3 sample images into the program
2. turn off then on then off the checkbox for the 2nd image (probably doesn't matter which one).
This is just one way of getting this error. It seems to happen on changing nearly any control. My guess is that it is calling Enfuse multiple times and it can't handle it.
I'm using Snow Leopard on a 4 month old iMac, not sure if the new OS has something to do with it.
ImageFuser seems to be rock-stable by comparison, but the GUI doesn't have some of the nice touches of Bracketeer (like click on a thumb to see full image, hover to see name), and is a little more complex. Then again, it does give you more setting to tweak your final image.
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uncoy reviewed on 19 Jul 2009
The interface is really well sorted and minimalist - as a good Apple application should be.
Works great in Aperture. In short, together with PTTools for lens correction, Bracketeer is my best photo processing purchase.
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sounds for me as if you should do either or both of the following
- delete the app's prefs file
- rebuild the desktop with Disk Warrior
and then try again
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Downloaded the new, latest update, still opens but hangs up, not loading the images with either "import... or in batch" Not with tif, raw or other file types!!
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sounds for me as if you should do either or both of the following
- delete the app's prefs file
- rebuild the desktop with Disk Warrior
and then try again
good luck
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Sure enough noise- partcularly chroma - was greatly reduced and detail was retained.
yet another use from what seems to be a very nice program.
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Well worth the $30, this blows away some of the competitors. Hydra is $60, and given the same photos I fed into Bracketeer, it did a pretty bad job on cranking out a good looking result.
Good stuff!
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ulfhednar reviewed on 14 Apr 2008
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JonnyG75 reviewed on 29 Mar 2008
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BumbleB reviewed on 18 Mar 2008
Just bought it, and look forward to feeding it some worthy material;-)
Thumbs up to the developer for building on good open source and providing a fair deal. Thumbs up!
I do wish the window could be maximized though, which I was told by the developer, will be incorporated in the next major update. I hope sooner than later, even though it isn't a dealbreaker.
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If you put it in another folder, it lets you import one graphic, then it freezes and returns an effuse error upon trying to add the 2nd grahic.
Recommendation: Add this, as a warning, in instruction manual, or, fix the software so it can be installed into any folder. Get a new beta tester, any good beta tester would have caught that on the first day.
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HOW TO INSTALL BRACKETEER
1. Double-click the Bracketeer.dmg file to mount the disc image.
2. Open the disc image and then drag the Bracketeer folder to your harddrive. Put it anywhere you like, such as the Applications folder.
3. NOTE: In the Bracketeer folder is an Enfuse folder along with the Bracketeer.app file. The Enfuse folder *must* remain in the same folder as that Bracketeer.app file, otherwise the app won't know where to find it.
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Vaxxoz rated on 13 Sep 2011
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Birdy53 rated on 11 Aug 2011