fabelfroh Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Dear all, I am on a Mac. I have over 10000 of images (approx. 100 images per focus merge operation) which I would like to focus merge. Is it somehow possible to automate Focus Merge with Affinity Photo? I tried to automate it using the Apple Automator App and/or AppleScript but it does not seem to be possible. I have read that there is a dedicated Macro Option in Affinity Photo but could not find any information how it can be used properly. Is Focus Merge supported? Best wishes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Affinity macros will not read or write files so you cannot automate focus merge. If you have the files each merge in their own folder, it will make it easier to load them into the merge stack. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabelfroh Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 Hi John, I have all the files that should be merged in separate folders, sometimes 100 folders per study. But I still need to manually choose Focus Merge from the menu and then drag and drop them to Affinity Photo and after the merging has completed, manually save them. That takes a long time for 100 folders and I would like to automate that somehow. Currently, I used a software called HeliconFocus which has a batch processing function, but in certain circumstances (e.g. images of plant cells) I find the results from Affinity Photo superior. Any recommendations welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Unfortunately lack of automation is one of the weak spots of Affinity apps. As John already suggested, you could drastically lower the manual effort by preparing the to be stacked source images into one dedicated folder per stack. Focus stacking is then a matter of few clicks. Others have investigated into automating further, to my knowledge without success. BTW it’s nice to hear that you rate the results from Affinity better than those from other apps. Normally we have to deal with reports stating the opposite 😉 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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