Photo Merge decoded each raw itself and wrote the reference frame's own colour
tags into the merged DNG. A CR2 (and NEF, ARW and the other raws whose colour is
fitted from the camera JPEG) has none, so an HDR merge of CR2s rendered with no
camera colour: green and about 16 L* dark.
`lightcraft_merge::load_frame_with` takes the raw's colour tags from the caller,
and the engine passes `starting_colour_tags`: the colour the raw opens with
(`starting_colour`) as DNG tags. That is one forward matrix with a colour matrix
and AsShotNeutral that agree with it at the as-shot white, the look's hue/sat
table as ProfileHueSatMap and its tone curve as ProfileToneCurve. Raws with
their own matrices (DNG) keep their tags. The look's chroma curve has no DNG
tag and is left out.
On two CC0 CR2s (EOS 550D, 40D) an HDR merge of three copies against the photo
alone: mean CIE76 dE 26.15 -> 1.07 and 22.89 -> 0.47.
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gpu (its render already runs under catch_unwind and falls back to the CPU):
- a failed readback (device lost, out of memory) logs, marks the GPU
broken and returns zeros, so crate::render discards the result and
renders on the CPU, instead of panicking;
- an unknown kernel name does the same instead of panic!;
- finish-parameter fields are looked up as Option (debug_assert on an
unknown name) instead of panic!;
- the warp sampler matches (mode, warp) like the CPU pipeline;
- Buf::raw keeps one documented expect (Some from construction to Drop).
merge:
- pyramid building (push_pull, Blender::finish), camera graph growth,
bundle adjustment, focal median and alignment use let-else / filter_map
instead of expect;
- synth::bracket_dngs / pano_views return Result (a missing demo scene
or a DNG write error is an error); lightcraft-cli synth-merge and the
engine merge tests handle it.
lightcraft-gpu, lightcraft-merge and lightcraft-cli now #![deny]
unwrap/expect/panic/unimplemented/todo/unreachable; clippy.toml as in the
steering PR.
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- develop.autoBwMix (B&W Mixer → Auto): each hue band's colourful pixels are pushed away from
the image's mean lightness (light bands brighter, dark ones darker; bands with almost no
colour untouched), clamped to ±60; switches to B&W; one undo step.
- library.filter {merged: hdr | panorama | hdrPanorama | any}: Photo Merge results recognised
by the "-HDR" / "-Pano" / "-HDR-Pano" names merges write; filter bar type picker lists HDR,
Panoramas, HDR Panoramas.
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Photo Merge's Create Stack option now puts the merged DNG on top of a
collapsed stack of its sources (Catalog::stack_with_ops), so the grid
shows the result; test in tests_merge (and no stack without the option).
Photo Merge dialogs live in a Photo > Photo Merge submenu.
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- engine: `merge.hdr`, `merge.panorama`, `merge.hdrPanorama` (bracket size from
EXIF); MergeJob (Send) with progress/cancel, preview renders through the develop
pipeline (deghost overlay, auto-crop frame); finish writes <name>-HDR/-Pano.dng
next to the first source, imports, selects, applies Auto Settings / auto crop
- ui: Photo Merge dialog (HDR / Panorama / HDR Panorama) with live preview on a
worker thread, background final merge with progress toast; context menu and
Ctrl+H / Ctrl+M (Ctrl now means the physical Control key on macOS)
- cli: `merge hdr|panorama|hdr-panorama`, `synth-merge` for synthetic inputs
- merge::synth: procedural brackets (DNG) and panorama views; docs/merge.md
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