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The obvious example here is advanced focus stacking. And that’s only because Adobe decided that they did not want to invest in the development of that particular functionality. But there are a few things that the program is not able to do. Every day that I use it, I learn something new that this program can now do. Photoshop (or Affinity, or On1, or fill-in-the-blank) is an amazing feat of engineering, no question about it. But of all of the cool programs they offer, nothing holds a candle to Photoshop. I’ll be in half a dozen apps at the same time, on many occasions.

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I really love Adobe software and I use many of their apps in the course of running my channel. For the rest of mankind, let’s consider the second option. If you are the kind of person who orders a bicycle in the hopes it will arrive as a box of 400 individual parts and an Allen wrench, you may well want to look into using one of these freebies.

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What is missing from all of these free stacking software options is a complete graphic user interface, and ancillary programs for alignment, color management and all the other things that are going on behind the scenes in a full feature focus stacking suite like Zerene or Helicon. CombineZP is that handful of flour, water, and oil awaiting the ministrations of the elderly matron and her tiny rolling pin, only you had better be well versed in the alchemy of software engineering if you hope to make it edible.Īuthor’s note - when I wrote this it was 1:15 in the morning and I had worked through lunch and forgot to eat dinner.

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When you eat at an Indian restaurant and order your roti (chapati, shabaati, safati, rotli, phulka, or roshi - brilliant ideas seldom stay confined to a single culture), you are doing so in the full expectation that there is someone in the back who knows how to turn those humble ingredients into something magical. The ingredients are whole wheat flower, a tiny amount of water, and an even tinier amount of oil. The bread is indescribably delicious and to be appreciated fully it should be eaten the moment it is pulled from the open flame of the burner when it is still the size of a cantaloupe, a crisp and chewy charred ball filled with aromatic steam, and nothing else. There is a type of bread enjoyed daily by millions across the Indian subcontinent and around the world. So if these are such competent stackers, and they are, why aren’t we using them? To understand that, an analogy is in order. At the current time, there are two commercially available, affordable, stacking products that offer all or most of the required functionality and an intuitive graphic user interface Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker. So the technical challenge should be self evident - how do we blend these one thousand partially focused images into one fully focused one? We need a sophisticated focus stacking software program to do the heavy lifting. Let that constraint sink in for a moment - to build a composite image of a subject one millimeter deep, made up of images that are all in sharp focus, would require that the camera or subject move roughly one micron between capturing each of a thousand individual frames. At a magnification of 20X, for example, our depth of field is only around 2 microns, or 2 thousandths of a millimeter.

The primary difficulty in capturing high resolution images of very small subjects using photographic equipment is a result of the very shallow depth of field at which we work.

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