9/1/2023 0 Comments Zerene focus stacking![]() I discuss this phenomena (that I call "the smoothies" ) in my short blog on stacking. That beats the shoot/click fine focus adjust/shoot/repeat x 100 nonsense with Nikon's Camera Control pro. I can set up a stack in Helicon Remote, start it shooting, and leave it to run to the end. On another subject, I am liking the automation and focus control in Helicon Remote (for Mac). Is there a good guide somewhere to getting the best out of Zerene Stacker?ĭoes anybody else have good advice for getting the most out of Zerene, and how to retouch an image that comes out less than ideal? My goal for these images is to make bigger-than-life large prints, so flaws like translucent areas misalignments, and halos will really stand out. If I built this stack using PS, I could go edit the layer masks on the component layers to make the foreground bits fully opaque, but I don't know how to do that in Zerene. If you open the original image and zoom in, you see that lots of the near flower parts appear partly transparent, and show the bits behind. The second flower shot (I need to ask my wife what kind of flower this is) has more serious problems. The shot of the mum has the least artifacts: Just some minor blurring and halos around the edges of the flower. Most notably, parts of flower petals show up as translucent, and the areas behind show through. That seems to give the best results of all "out of the box", but still has problems here and there. Once I got the right settings, its output was an improvement over PS, but still had a fair number of flaws. It was decent, but required far too much touchup. When I first started experimenting with Focus stacking I used the built-in auto-align layers/auto-blend layers feature of PS CS 6.
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