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(all from different photographers) indicated which stacking software was used.īear in mind these were "award winning photos" by accomplished micro mineral photographers. There was a forum thread on mindat from late 2010 entitledīest of Mindat micro photos. Helicon is the most expensive, supports 16 bits, Windows or Mac.Īll of the "big 3" packages yield impressive results.Zerene runs on linux, mac, or windows, 8 and 16 bit, price is reasonable.CombineZ is free and open source, only handles 8 bit images, Windows only.Laplacian Pyramid (Burt and Adelson) So, which software is the best?.Pyramid-based computer graphics (Ogden, Adelson, Bergen, Burt).Multiresolution Spline - Image Mosaics (Burt and Adelson).Which is worth looking at, along with some other papers: Which does both HDR, panorama stitching, and focus stackingĢ007 paper by Mertens, Kautz and Van Reeth It has a related front end package "PTAssembler". Note that although TuFuse is free, it is NOT open source,Īnd apparently only runs on windows, so that ends my interest in it. Here are some packages that I have taken a look at: Not clear if that support will continue to include the StackShot.Ī Wikipedia article on focus stacking that mentions quit a list of packages. What I like is that they support linux users like myself, but it is Zerene is written by Rik Littlefield (editor/administrator of ) Note that the stackshot mounts the camera using an Arca clamp (or can), which is nice.

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So, by the time you buy the rail and the pro edition of Zerene, you have spent nearly $1000. The stackshot is a product from Cognisys IncĪnd as of September, 2011 was selling for about $600 (this is the rail, motor, and controller). There seems to be one exception to all this, and that is support within Zereneįor the stackshot rail, you have to buy the professional edition to get the rail support. Same thing, but with fewer restrictions with what you do with the output. The "Professional Edition" costs $289, and is really the The "Personal Edition" costs $89 USD and runs on Windows, OsX, and Linux, Who they describe as interested, responsive, and helpful. Is now thinking of switching to Zerene Pro because he is purchasingĮssentially everyone I know now runs Zerene.Īs needed, several of these have needed to contact the author, My friend Joe has used this with satisfaction for some time, but The visual studio CPP environment almost seems to be engineeredįor details, click this Windows Software Porting link. I briefly contemplated the idea of porting CombineZ to linux, but this would

Wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/CombineZM/CombineZ-m.exeĬombine Z was written in C++ (for the windows platform - visual studio C++). Mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/CombineZM.ĭownload CombineZ-m.exe and fftw3.dll from CombineZM’s websit and put them in the folder.

#BEST FREE FOCUS STACKING SOFTWARE INSTALL#

There were some unexpected issues, such as using winetricks to install People have set up CombineZM to run under Wine in linux. I also stashed my own copies of his source (as of 8-26-2011) here:ĬombineZ runs only on windows, so a Mac (or Linux user like me) The source can be downloaded from Alan Hadleys site

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This source code is still available, but has not been developed since 2006.ĬombineZP is the current work by the author (Alan Hadley),Īnd it boldly is open source (under the GPL)! I no information about how good the results are. The little birdies have told me that the GIMP can do focus stacking The big negative is that it is the most poorly designed

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The big plus with regard to the gimp is it is free. My buddy John says that he tried it and thought it did a terrible job.

Select all the layers (Select->All Layers).

Tools -> Photoshop -> Load files into photoshop layers. This can be done in one step in bridge via

Create one file with each image a separate layer, keeping them in order.

In bridge, select all the images you want to stack.

It was improved in updates to CS4, and is reportedly improved You want to move the focus plane through the subject and change nothing else.Īs of CS4, Photoshop has included focus stacking abilites. Refocusing the lens will change perspective as well as focus, which is not what you want. Using a focusing rail or some equivalent scheme. Refocus the lens between shots, but instead change the camera to subject distance When taking a series of images for image stacking, note that you do not want to This requires computer software to do the work, A solution for times where extensive depth ofįield is desired is to stack a sequence of digital images taken with Photos emphasize some central item of interest by throwing everythingĮlse out of focus). In some cases this is a nice effect (many great Mineral photography Mineral photography - image stackingĪ big issue when doing extreme closeup photography is limitedĭepth of field.