Dominatio Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Hi folks. I use C1 for RAW editing, however it does not offer tools for bracketing or stacking. I have a 30 exposure (in place of long exposure) set, each with 0,-1,+1ev brackets (90 images). This will be my first time bracketing + stacking a set of exposures, so advise would be appreciated. If I edit the 0 ev exposures in C1 then send to AP they will be converted to Tiff and then not editable easily in C1 again. I’m not experienced in AP raw processing so not sure if that is the most appropriate way forward. Q1: Would it be best to edit exposures in raw first, in C1 or AP, then combine each bracket sequence, followed by stacking the result of the brackets? Q2: What alternate workflow might work best in this scenario, given the images will need some IQ processing? IE stack each bracket value first then combine each stacked image? Feedback welcome, thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 @Dominatio I would recommend processing your raw files first, but ensuring that the same processing is aplied to every image. In Affinity you woud use Presets. Presumably ON1 has somethig simlar. Save as tiff files. Load your triplets into Affinity via File > New HDR Stack and process to get a merged image. Save as a 16-bit tiff. Load the merged tiffs via File > New Focus Merge, process and save. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominatio Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Nice - thanks for the guidance John. You mentioned a focus merge though this is not a focus merge - just a stack to replace a long exposure - does that make a difference in AP or will the result be the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 @Dominatio You just use File > New Stack instead of New Focus Merge. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 1 minute ago, John Rostron said: You just use File > New Stack instead of New Focus Merge. New Stack? or New HDR Merge? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: New Stack? or New HDR Merge? The OP just wanted a Stack, presumably for a median merge. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominatio Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Cheers all. I’ll give that a shot when back at my PC. thanks for the advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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