Comparison of infrared luminosities, as obtained with and without Herschel data included in the fit. In the latter case, 24 μm flux densities are used. The methods and templates used are: Wuyts et al. (2008, W08); Chary & Elbaz (2001, CE01); Polletta et al. (2007, P07) fitted using hyper-z; Siebenmorgen & Krügel (2007, SK07) fitted with a custom code; Dale & Helou (2002, DH02); Elbaz et al. (2011, E11); Nordon et al. (2012, N12); Rujopakarn et al. (2011, R11); and this work (B13). The fit obtained with SK07 templates was designed to work with multiband photometry, hence was not tested on 24 μm data alone and is not shown here. Rujopakarn et al. (2011) provide an estimate of L(TIR) using 24 μm only, but no Herschel information, therefore it is here compared to the results obtained with the new templates (B13) including Herschel data. A correction to transform L(TIR,5 − 1000   μm) into L(IR,8–1000   μm) has been computed by integrating Rieke et al. (2009) templates, as used in Rujopakarn et al. (2011); this correction ranges between 8% and 1% depending on luminosity. Red diagonal lines simply mark the one to one relation.