FocusStacker Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) I was looking for focus stacking software for landscapes, and reviewed (quickly and dirtily) Picolay, Zerene, ACDSee, Helicon, and Affinity Photo. I was surprised to find that a full-featured photo editor (Affinity) handled my landscape sequences from 1 foot to infinity easily, accurately, and at lesser cost. I don't claim that I gave any of these programs an in depth review, just that Affinity handled the stacks I threw at it with the least fuss AND highest accuracy, as an average measure of those two criteria. It will be interesting to see if it does macro stacking as nicely. Edited January 28, 2020 by FocusStacker Quote
Peter47628 Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 FocusStacker, Affinity also does Macro-Stacks - even Micro. I compared the results with them from Zerene - no difference .I attached some examples... Quote
FocusStacker Posted January 29, 2020 Author Posted January 29, 2020 Peter, I saw the apple (looks well stacked), but what does this image (frost on a windowpane? crystallography?) have to do with focus stacking? Is it microscopy? John Rostron 1 Quote
Peter47628 Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 No, it's not an apple, it's a small berry. And the second one - yes, is microskopy. A soluted crystal, recrystalled on a glass. With two crossed polarizing filters, manuell stacked for through-going sharpness. The former was ascorbine acid/vitamin C, this one is wine acid.. IPv6 1 Quote
Peter47628 Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 Not yet - cause this winter is not very cold this year. And if, you have to go outside then... I add a further macro-stack done with affinity. Quote
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