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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823520" data-attributes="member: 53455">I had to do some serious market research and hands-on testing when I convinced myself that focus-stacking was a must for what I was trying to achieve. The fact that the D850 (which was the camera I used at the time) had a built-in stacking function, carried the decision. Since then, I learned to stack focus manually, but at the beginning I wasn’t too sure of my ability to do that. So, I looked around and first went with Zerene Stacker, which is also quite good. However, I was not entirely satisfied with it and re-touching took hours for unconvincing results. Maybe it was just me being clumsy. Anyway, it was then that I tried Helicon, and I must say I never looked back. I hope you will enjoy it too. Focus stacking is a very specific business that a program like Photoshop, for example, doesn't handle well (if it even does at all, which I do not recall at the moment: I never use it to do that).Photoshop is excellent for stitching panoramas, sometimes even better than dedicated software like PTGui, but focus-stacking must be a different ball game entirely.Anyway, keep us posted and make the most of your trial period.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 823520, member: 53455"] I had to do some serious market research and hands-on testing when I convinced myself that focus-stacking was a must for what I was trying to achieve. The fact that the D850 (which was the camera I used at the time) had a built-in stacking function, carried the decision. Since then, I learned to stack focus manually, but at the beginning I wasn’t too sure of my ability to do that. So, I looked around and first went with Zerene Stacker, which is also quite good. However, I was not entirely satisfied with it and re-touching took hours for unconvincing results. Maybe it was just me being clumsy. Anyway, it was then that I tried Helicon, and I must say I never looked back. I hope you will enjoy it too. Focus stacking is a very specific business that a program like Photoshop, for example, doesn't handle well (if it even does at all, which I do not recall at the moment: I never use it to do that). Photoshop is excellent for stitching panoramas, sometimes even better than dedicated software like PTGui, but focus-stacking must be a different ball game entirely. Anyway, keep us posted and make the most of your trial period. [/QUOTE]

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