Focus stacking

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• December 10, 2021 07:43

Was hoping for support for focus stacking and merging, it is available if you buy an additional plug in, it should be included in Capture One, as it is in Lightroom/ photoshop.

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  • December 20, 2021 01:14

  @Graham Prentice
  There is no need to associate focus stack frames with layers.

  Just like with the HDR/Panorama features, one would select the images to be combined and C1 would produce a single image from them. C1 layers would not be needed at all (and are rather different from standard Photoshop layers anyhow).

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  Dirk Uys

  • May 04, 2022 13:38

  CombineZP was abandoned(?) by the developer. Is there a reason (e.g. maybe a competitor bought the rights to eliminate it from the market) why C1 cannot pick it up and refresh it as a stacking plugin?

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  Graham Prentice

  • December 11, 2021 09:16

  I suspect any focus stacking would be very limited without a major structural change.  Each image needs to be in a layer, to retouch the finished stack.  C1 has a low number of layers. Might just about work for a landscape with around three images, but for anything more C1 will not have the layers to do it.  Photoshop will allow more layers, but for decent stacking of multiple macro images, sometimes even running into hundreds, you will always need specialist software such as Zerene Stacker or Helicon Focus.  This is not the kind of area I see C1 ever being really useful for.  Maybe nice for a small limited stack (which might help with astro photography, I don’t know because I don’t do it) , but then people will only criticise that it does not do enough.  

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  Ian Wilson

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  • December 11, 2021 09:36

  

  Focus stacking isn't really included in Lightroom. If you do it, it has to go into Photoshop, so that is no different really from using a plug-in, is it? Neither Lightroom nor Capture One can do it without going out to some other app, because neither Lightroom nor Capture One use layers in the same sense as Photoshop, Affinity Photo, and other similar apps. (As Graham Prentice says above, Capture One has a limited number of layers - and they are not the same kind of thing as PS layers anyway.)

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