Thread: Focus stacking program

Hi,
Haven't tried it, but found a list on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking

Cheers

Lou;

I use Helicon Focus for Both landscape and macro photography.

Helicon Focus - Helicon Soft

Koz do you use it with lightroom?

can you stack the images and then send them back to lightroom for final touches?

I guess you cant output back to light room as a raw image...

is there any noticeable loss in quality (sharpness) when sending back or outputting.

Sorry for all the questions cant find my answers on their website

Originally Posted by dullbird

Koz do you use it with lightroom?

can you stack the images and then send them back to lightroom for final touches?

I guess you cant output back to light room as a raw image...

is there any noticeable loss in quality (sharpness) when sending back or outputting.

Sorry for all the questions cant find my answers on their website

Absolutely , I make the initial adjustment to the Raw files in LR and Sync them together in LR , Export them to a Folder as TIFF , Stack them in Helicon Focus and Save the End file as either a Tiff which I can then make any further adjustments in LR or Photoshop or export as Jpeg for web publishing.

OK so I downloaded a trial of the Helicon and thought being as though its a hot day will have a try as I have never attempted to stack ever before.

I didn't really have much to photograph here in the house so I had a go at some water droplets with my macro..

I think it sort of worked???

I'm sure the image could be a little sharper but am I on the right tracks Koz??

there was more to the image I just cropped it down because there was to much space in the image.

Kind of a moon scape

2015-12-20 16-28-19 (B,Radius8,Smoothing4) by Louise Thompson, on Flickr

That's pretty much it lou. You've done well. How many shots was this image ?