David

Also I'd like to thank the developer(s) for making this awesome application! It's one of the most useful picture-editing-related things I've ever downloaded. (I would donate if I had a job!)

I use this script (note that as of today, the script on my PC is newer, I need to update it on the website, but here it is anyway):
BASHENFUSE
http://www.panopixel.org/bashenfuse.php

See this wiki article:
http://www.autopano.net/wiki/action/view/Bashfuse

Don't know what tufuse is?
http://www.tawbaware.com/tufuse.htm

I also added functionality to the script to support non-tiff input files!

Of course if Phatch did this in a nice gui it would be much better, this script is a make-do solution!

But in other news!

Frederic Mantegazza wrote a bash script to read photos and split them into groups and send those to tufuse.exe through wine, and I just fixed it up to support spaces in file names, dirs and to support parameters. Maybe this will somehow guide you!

I will link to this script tomorrow as Im still working on one small bug in the script, after it runs all the groups it wants to run an extra group that doesnt exist.

The following is also welcome, but won't impress me that much:
- translating
- promoting phatch on blogs, forums, digg, … spread the word
- donations

So the needed GUI options would be:
1- input box for number of images per group (no camera I know of brackets more than 9 so if you use a slider max should be 9)
2- output bit depth - 8 or 16
3- blend across 180 degree boundary yes/no
4- sigma (slider)
5- beta (slider)

If you have some programming skill you might be able to hack together a prototype that would show what you want. In my generic action class the external action can be any command line. You might be able to execute the command directly but you can also wrap an arbitrarily complex program in a shell script (or Python, or Perl, etc.) and have the script executed by Phatch.

You can create fields in the Phatch action and have those values passed to your script. Your script can then do the actual grouping and so on and then call the tufuse executable. Figuring out how to do this might be useful for Stani.

"Phatch would need to be able to read a directory containing many bracketed photos, and split those photos up into groups. If I shoot a scene using bracketing of -2EV, 0EV and +2EV then phatch would need to split the photos in the dir into groups of 3. This is what EnfuseGUI does."

Can you explain me how Phatch could split up these photos? How does Phatch knows which photos belong together? By filename or exif tags (datetime, aperture, …)? If you don't know, please try to find out how EnfuseGUI does this.

Currently tufuse is only available for windows as an .exe, but it works under wine. It is a command-line program relying on external GUIs. Windows users can use PTgui or EnfuseGUI (pointing EnfuseGUI to tufuse.exe in options), however they dont work in wine.

Would it be possible to integrate tufuse into phatch? Users would point phatch to tufuse.exe, which would be called through wine.
The most important parameters to pass are:
output bit depth -a n
blending across the 180 degree boundary for panoramic images -w
sigma and beta (these could be sliders) -s n and -B n

Phatch would need to be able to read a directory containing many bracketed photos, and split those photos up into groups. If I shoot a scene using bracketing of -2EV, 0EV and +2EV then phatch would need to split the photos in the dir into groups of 3. This is what EnfuseGUI does.

Please check out tufuse - which I think works great, there are no ugly halos typical of hdr, the output is realistic - and tell me if you think this is a good idea!