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Old 10-28-2007   #1
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Focus stacking is a way of increasing the DOF in a photograph by combining several pictures taken from the same point of view but at different focus points. It is normally applied in macrophotography where there is a constant battle between light, aperture, DOF and diffraction softening but can equally be applied in other photographic fields if lack of DOF is causing problems.

I 've done a tutorial here Wonderful Photos: How to Increase your Depth of Field by Focus Stacking
on using the freeware PC programme combinezm.

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Thanks for the tutorial Brian.
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A wonderfull detailed tutorial.....thnx Brian.
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Brian, Thank you so much for one great Tutorial! Great job. A Karma with my compliments and Thanks!
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Will it be made available for Vista?
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Will it be made available for Vista?
I've seen one report that it works fine with Vista business edition. There's a Yahoo group here combinez : Messages : 1-30 of 386 run by the author.

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Example of a single and focus stack shot of the same subject

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This is only possible if the subject is still for a series of photos, correct?
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I added this to the editing sticky: PhotoShop, PSE, PSP Tips & Tutorial sites and threads
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This is only possible if the subject is still for a series of photos, correct?
Russell - technically yes the subjects should be stationary.
However if there is minor movement causing a duplication in the final image you can easily "repair" this by repair cloning from one of the original pics onto the stacked image.
You can however use it to get interesting motion effects where you are stacking images taken with the same focus point but with a moving subject.

Sometimes even a poor stack caused by subject movement can be rather interesting

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I added this to the editing sticky: PhotoShop, PSE, PSP Tips & Tutorial sites and threads
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