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Merging a focus stack with Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Macro and Close-Up
Merging a focus stack with Photoshop
So, I've taken my massive data, my huge stack of images, out of my camera, and copied them onto my computer. I am ready to start the merging process. I am going to do that using Photoshop CS6. Now, if you are using an earlier version of Photoshop, you might still have the same feature. You can find out by going to the Edit menu, and seeing if there is an Auto-Align Layers, and Auto Blend Layers. Doesn't matter if they are grayed out; you just need to have them there. If you have got them there, then you're going to be able to follow along here. I'm going to switch over to Bridge now, where I am browsing the folder, where I copied all of my images. [00:00:3.15] As you will recall, I shot RAW+JPEG. My idea was merging raw files takes such a long time that, because I don't know yet if my shot really works, I would also shoot lo- res JPEG files, so that I could get a quick speedy merge to find out if my lighting is okay, if I like the shot, if it set up well. So, that's what we are going…
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Creating a simple manual focus stack4m 40s
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Creating a focus stacked image with manual merge6m 17s
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Creating a focus stacked image using Helicon Remote11m 6s
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Working with a StackShot rail for focus stacking11m 46s
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Merging a focus stack with Photoshop11m 12s
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Merging photo stacks with Helicon6m 53s
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Understanding the aesthetics of depth of field4m 25s
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