Improve the exposure of your photos with Macrofusion

For those who do not know, Enfuse is a tool that is used under the command line on linux with which we can create and mix images with a different exposure at all without having the need to produce intermediate HDR images that are formatted into a viewable image.

enfuse will allow us to carry out this process in a very simplified and fast way, all of this is possible thanks to the algorithms it uses such as tone mapping.

The use of this command line utility tends to be a bit confusing and complicated for newcomers to Linux and above all of them who have learned to use this tool for their editing work.

So they tend to think that carrying out this work on Linux is too complicated. That is why the Macrofusion project, an Enfuse GUI (graphical interface), was born in light of this problem.

About Macrofusion

macrofusion is a simple free application based on Enfuse that will allow us to merge two or more images into one, offering a greater dynamic range or depth of field.

Using Macrofusion It has a fairly simple and easy-to-use interface, it also allows many useful options, such as the ability to manage image saturation, contrast, and image exposure, and it gives us the facility to be able to operate on a preview to facilitate image fusion.

Macrofusion is primarily aimed at photographers and allows users to combine normal or macro photos for a greater depth of field (DOF or depth of field) or large dynamic range (HDR or High Dynamic Range).

For those who do not know the HDR is a set of methods used in photography and / or image processing in general, to extend the dynamic range (the section between the darkest and the lightest value of an image) and thus obtain the best capture of the image.

Just to better clarify this, depth of field is a range of distances around the focal plane where there is acceptable sharpness.

How to install Macrofusion on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?

Si do you want to install this great tool in your system. We can do it from a repository which we will add to the system in the following way.

The first thing will be to open a terminal with Ctr + Alt + T and we will write the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

We update our list of repositories:

sudo apt-get update

Now use the following command to install the program

sudo apt-get install macrofusion

How to install Macrofusion from deb package in Ubuntu and derivatives?

For those who they couldn't install with the above procedure, they don't want to add repository or want to try to install on another distribution based on Debian and other systems that support .deb files, you should do the following.

First they should check what architecture they have in their systemIf you do not know it, you can execute the following command:

uname -m

Si your system is 32-bit, use the following command to download the program:

wget https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway/+files/macrofusion_0.7.4-dhor4~trusty_i386.deb

If your system is 64 bit, use the command below to download the program in your deb package:

wget https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway/+files/macrofusion_0.7.4-dhor4~trusty_amd64.deb

After downloading the program according to the architecture of your system, you can proceed to install the application with the application manager of your choice.

Or they can also install it from the terminal with the following command:

sudo dpkg -i macrofusion*.deb

If necessary, install the program dependencies with the command:

sudo apt-get install -f

How to uninstall Macrofusion from Ubuntu and derivatives?

If for any reason they want to remove the program from their systems they must carry out the next step.

They should open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and write the following command about her:

sudo apt-get remove macrofusion --auto-remove

And voila, they will have already uninstalled Macrofusion from their systems.

If you know of any other application similar to Macrofusion, feel free to share it with us in the comments.