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So, after all I ended up using a Linux PC with good old Autopano Giga. I forced it to include all images in a single panorama, roughly aligned them by hand, then limited the control points to the mountains at the horizon and run another fast alignment optimization. Finally I rendered everything into a *.hdr panorama and did the tonemapping using Affinity Photo: Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get Autopano to run stable on my new Apple silicon Macbook, so I'm still looking for some alternative in the long run...

That's exactly the kind of work I'm trying to avoid...

Hi all, I am trying to create a HDR panoramic image from a sunset at the see as shown below: (8 HDR images to be combined, each at 50% oppacity) What I did so far: Took images and enjoyed the sunset 🙂 I used fixed, manual settings for focus and exposure time across all images and took three different exposures for each shot. The images were taken by hand, as tripod would have been useless on a boat anyway... Created my own HDR setting and saved them as a preset Developed eight individual HDR images and saved them as 32-bit *.tiff files (can I somehow automate this using batch-processing?) Selected "New panorama" and imported my images. At this point I am getting an error saying "No panoramas found". Even if I try to merge only two frames it will already fail... Now I fully get that the software has a pretty hard time in finding correspondences across the images, as half of the photos are waves that always look different, while the sky doesn't provide any features at all. On the other hand, merging the images manually is super easy based on the mountain silhouette at the horizon as you can see above. So my question is: Can I somehow force Affinity Photo into opening the images and letting me arrange them manually? As I am new to the software I'm also happy about any recommendations regarding my workflow. E.g. by developing the HDR images front up, I'm now having different brightness levels in all recordings, so merging them without the panorama rendering functionality would be a pain in the a**... However, it seems there is no direct support for HDR panoramas so far, is there?