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Public bug reported:

(Note: I'm also posting this to the Hugin gmail group)

I've been playing with RPP (http://www.raw-photo-
processor.com/RPP/Overview.html) for RAW conversion preliminary to
generating panoramas with Hugin (most recently Harry van der Wolf's OSX
build of 2010.4.0-beta2); and running into problems with the color
space.

RPP generates TIFF files in the BetaRGB color space; and using these
files directly in Hugin I find two problems:

1) The panomatic control point generator barfs on these - Exception
Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) in the crash logs ( I can provide details if
you like).  I can generate control points manually, or with autopano-
sift; and the alignment and distortion optimization runs as expected.

2) The expoure optimization generally leads to absurd results; usually a
strong horizontal exposure gradient, and if I try white balance
optimization then the  resulting panorama reminds my of my experiments
in recreational pharmacology many decades ago.

I can work around this by converting the files from BetaRGB to ProPhoto
(e.g. in Photoshop, that being what I'm most familiar with), after which
Hugin handles them with no problems.  But this is a pain when I have
hundreds of images to deal with.

It's not clear if these are bugs or just a case of input that Hugin (or
its components) weren't designed to handle; outside of RPP I haven't run
across BetaRGB anywhere else.  And I don't know the underlying math well
enough to know whether adding support for this is a trivial fix or a
major overhaul.

If this is a bug, I can provide lots of detail; if it's a missing
feature, please consider this a feature request.

** Affects: hugin
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New

** Changed in: hugin
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  Add Color Management to Hugin

Status in Hugin - Panorama Tools GUI:
  New

Bug description:
  (Note: I'm also posting this to the Hugin gmail group)

I've been playing with RPP (http://www.raw-photo-processor.com/RPP/Overview.html) for RAW conversion preliminary to generating panoramas with Hugin (most recently Harry van der Wolf's OSX build of 2010.4.0-beta2); and running into problems with the color space.

RPP generates TIFF files in the BetaRGB color space; and using these files directly in Hugin I find two problems:

1) The panomatic control point generator barfs on these - Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) in the crash logs ( I can provide details if you like).  I can generate control points manually, or with autopano-sift; and the alignment and distortion optimization runs as expected.

2) The expoure optimization generally leads to absurd results; usually a strong horizontal exposure gradient, and if I try white balance optimization then the  resulting panorama reminds my of my experiments in recreational pharmacology many decades ago.

I can work around this by converting the files from BetaRGB to ProPhoto (e.g. in Photoshop, that being what I'm most familiar with), after which Hugin handles them with no problems.  But this is a pain when I have hundreds of images to deal with.

It's not clear if these are bugs or just a case of input that Hugin (or its components) weren't designed to handle; outside of RPP I haven't run across BetaRGB anywhere else.  And I don't know the underlying math well enough to know whether adding support for this is a trivial fix or a major overhaul.

If this is a bug, I can provide lots of detail; if it's a missing feature, please consider this a feature request.