Each time the user:
You can tweak the way dcraw operates by setting specific command line switches (aka options or parameters) in the External tools tab of Preferences dialog.
The -T switch (TIFF output, see below) is the only required parameter. In this particular case we have also specified the optional -4 parameter to ask dcraw to obtain a 16 bit (TIFF) file.
Starting with Luminance HDR 1.9.3 the default options for calling dcraw are -T -4 -q 3. The DCRaw's manual page lists all the available options. An excerpt, being quite long, is available separately, for the latest manual page please follow this reference.
Luminance HDR can optionally use align_image_stack command line tool bundled with Hugin, a panorama stitcher, for the alignment of slightly misaligned images. When several differently exposed images are taken in the process of creating a High Dynamic Range image, the images are not perfectly aligned, and the quality of the HDR image created will suffer from this. align_image_stack uses the tools available to hugin to optimize the roll, pitch and yaw, as well as some parameters of the lens geometry, to align the images.
align_image_stack doesn't have a lot of relevant options, so we list them here:
By default Luminance HDR just defines prefix for aligned images: -a aligned_.