monkel

Sorry, no pets on school grounds.

I don't mind the work when there's nothing I can do about the material I have to work with and don't expect the impossible, just looking for the path that promises the best results with the least necessary input. Years ago I used to do it with a Microsoft research tool called group shot (which was pretty simple and yielded great results) but it's no longer available. Also affinity photo seems to have other batch processing workflows like HDR or focus stacking and I am primarily interested to learn if there's anything that would have eased my task more (which itself is done, but for the future).

Is there anyway to automate or ease the process like in Adobe Photomerge? https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/guided-mode-photomerge.html#use_photomerge_group_shot

Good tip if I were doing this (semi-) professionally, but this was at a parents-teacher conference, the choices were limited... ;)

Thanks for the feedback. I used the default "median" and it seemed to work ok. I had some issues where people had moved significantly - like turning to the side, but I could fudge those. I just checked out maximum and got some better contrasts on faces, but some visible hard corners at the transitions that I wouldn't have wanted, but perhaps when working from it from the start the result would be better.

I'm new to Affinity Photo, but as I didn't find the topic, I hope this is the right place to share and ask. I recently had to work on a group photo with about 20 people. I took 10 pictures of the group in the span of a few seconds to optimize for the chance of good facial expressions (trying to keep the framing fairly consistent). Then I looked for an easy way to combine these photos into the perfect group photo in affinity photo. This is what I did: Pre-Work renamed the photos to 01.jpg to 10.jpg looked at each face in turn, going through all ten photos and took note which face to use Affinity Photo File - New Stack ... - Add 01-10 (automatically align) Expand the live stack group for each face in turn select all stack layers except the face I noted down to keep use an eraser brush with soft edges, approximately half the size of a face delete the face area to reveal only the face I want to keep when done, I had my group shot with the "optimum" face selection There were some artefacts visible at higher zoom levels, but because this was for a web page only noticeable when you have a direct comparison. Now to the questions: What could I have done better or easier? Is live stack recommended for this or should I just use regular layers?