Re: [Gimp-developer] New functionality request

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Marc Mascré wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I would like to have a new functionality and I would like to submit to you
> this idea. I need an auto align layer tool (rotation and translation).
> Photoshop have it and I miss it a lot.
>
> In fact, I think we could use and existing algorithm. Hugin, a panorama
> maker, have this function. And for example Luminance-HDR, an HDR picture
> maker, have an option to use Hugin algorithm to autoalign pictures before
> merge it.

Yes, Luminance HDR can use the alignment tool from Hugin. Which means
you have to have Hugin installed, if you need that feature. We cannot
demand that from our users.

A native function (or maybe a GEGL op?) would come in handy in quite a
few cases, including exposure combination (whenever someone writes UI
for that GEGL tool). Patches are welcome ;)

Alex