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Ty13
26-09-2019, 8:39pm
Hi.

I've been wanting to try some focus stacking software, who has used what whether it be free or paid?

I don't really want to go down the paid subscription with PS so I was thinking Helicon Focus.

Thoughts?

richtbw
26-09-2019, 9:13pm
I've used ON1 Photo Raw 2019.6 focus stacking facility with great success. Not free though.

Mary Anne
26-09-2019, 10:06pm
See if CombineZP is still around it was a freebie I used to play around with it a few years back.

nardes
27-09-2019, 5:59am
I have used Helicon Focus although I have purchased a licence so it probably has more functionality than a free version.

I have found it works extremely well, but I have always used it tripod mounted with a focusing rail so the input frames have been aligned in the field as it were.

Cheers

Dennis

ameerat42
27-09-2019, 6:17am
Purely as another method, there's photo-stacking in GIMP. I can't even remember if I ever tried it...
This video shows how (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hNs-xMWi0). Note that GIMP is now at version 2.10.12.