Paresh Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Does anyone have tips (or a link) on creative ways to use focus merge? It seems similar to file/place except you can merge a lot of images at once. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 No, focus merge is a one-trick-pony, just the opposite of creativity, intended to deliver maximum sharpness and eliminate the regular blurriness from depth-of field. It will virtually beat the devil of creativity out of you images. If you find something creative, please share. Surprise us. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 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. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paresh Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 I really like the look this photographer gets. He uses a camera phone with a special lens and an app for multiple images. I thought maybe if I blended a number of images (but without the tripod or changing the focus when I shoot) I could get some impressionistic look like this. I already do a lot of ICM and feel like I have pretty much explored that technique but this look is different: https://davidduchemin.com/2014/12/postcards-from-venice/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smadell Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 This is not focus merging. Quite the opposite. Best guess is that it’s multiple copies of the same image (or similar images) placed one on top of another, each one offset just a bit from the others with the opacities diminished. Maybe blend modes have been changed, too. I took an image of a Manhattan bridge, duplicated it twice, and then moved the two duplicates by a couple of pixels each. I lowered the opacity of the duplicates to about 40% each. This seems pretty close to what the author accomplished. Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023); 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Just use File > New Stack and uncheck align images. I do this sort of thing all the time. You can also skip the Stack and just place several images in a document then play with their opacity and blend modes but I like the Stack. smadell 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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