Tutorials for PSP focus stacking?

GlenBarrington · Post by **GlenBarrington** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:48 pm

Does anyone know of any tutorials on how to go about focus stacking in PSP? I'm currently using X6, but would consider upgrading if necessary. this is a technique I'd like to explore without having to buy Photoshop.

Post by **Jean-Luc** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:08 pm

GlenBarrington wrote:Does anyone know of any tutorials on how to go about focus stacking in PSP? I'm currently using X6, but would consider upgrading if necessary. this is a technique I'd like to explore without having to buy Photoshop.

What do you mean by "focus stacking" ? I'm French speaking.

Jean-Luc

GlenBarrington · Post by **GlenBarrington** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:25 pm

Probably the best description would be the "Cambridge In Colour" tutorial: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutori ... acking.htm

Photoshop does this with two functions that I'd like to see in PSP,
* Auto-align of layers (useful for a variety of functionality, not just focus stacking)
* Focus blend which automates the selection and merging of the stacked images

Post by **Jean-Luc** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:41 pm

Why not use a freeware :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking

brucet · Post by **brucet** » Sat May 16, 2015 1:11 am

Not sure I would bother trying to do it in PSP. As pointed out. Try one of the free programs such as CombineZP.

regards

retiredPhil · Post by **retiredPhil** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:39 am

Jean-Luc wrote:
GlenBarrington wrote:Does anyone know of any tutorials on how to go about focus stacking in PSP? I'm currently using X6, but would consider upgrading if necessary. this is a technique I'd like to explore without having to buy Photoshop.
What do you mean by "focus stacking" ? I'm French speaking.

Jean-Luc

I believe the French term is "zedification". The Wikipedia explanation is straight forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking

and, of course, the French translation
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking

rondo · Post by **rondo** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:55 pm

I know it's not the same as Focus Stacking, but I've gotten some interesting results in PSP's HDR Exposure Merge.

Someone published their steps to do Focus Stacking in PSP here awhile back- it was a tremendously long, laborious process- all manual, and nowhere as easy (if it is) as in Photoshop. Anyway, I didn't save the link as there was just no way I was going to put that much work into it in PSP.

Post by **Jean-Luc** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:03 pm

rondo wrote:
Someone published their steps to do Focus Stacking in PSP here awhile back

A search for focus stacking in this forum shows messages until 2010 about this subject but no tutorial on how to do it in PSP. Perhaps in another forum?
Why don't you try CombineZ ?

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