Focus stacking
Has anyone else got this effect using focus stacking? This is 10 photos layered together.
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I haven't seen that personally but others have reported it. Send your files to tech support so the engineers can work on it.
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Support have said “This issue is a known issue that will be addressed in with several other focus stacking bugs in our next update coming out later next month.”
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Yep! is a common problem I've had since Stacking was first released and can happen with 3 images and up Also happens with different subjects shot, I still don't know how some users say it works well and some of us have problems. There is never any explanation for why this is the case.
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Unfortunately, I get exactly the same as above. I assume the team are still working on this for us.
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I just received an email with a link to a Hudson Henry video on Focus Stacking which may help.
https://www.on1.com/videos/focus-stacking-tips/
It may be for Plus members only.
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Brian - thanks - I have already viewed that, but it does not address the OP 1st post re the image.
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After watching the video it isn't going to help with this. He uses only 2 images (it's a landscape) and accepts the default settings without explaining the controls. Not knocking the video, it was interesting and useful, it just doesn't cover the issues being reported here.
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I also get this. I have to import the images into Lightroom and send them to Photoshop as layers. Photoshop does a pretty decent job of focus stacking. I keep an old version of PS and LR just for this sort of ad-hoc action. Oh yes, I am on Windows 10.
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I tried focus stacking with 2 images and with 12 (the apparent limit). Both sets show this 'water stain on glass' look that appears in the background, not the foreground. I'm really puzzled by it and hope that ON1 can solve the issue. I very much like this new tool and can see using it a lot in the future.
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I'm probably not going to explain this well but you can manually clean that up. When you are stacking the images there is an option to "Save as Layers" If you select "Save as Layers" you will see all the images stacked in the Layers section when you are in edit. You can then look at each layer and see what is masked out of each layer and manually mask out more or less on each layer. I have done this and cleaned up that water stain look fairly easily.
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For what it's worth.
I borrowed a motorised StackShot Macro rail to experiment with focus stacking in Raw 2020.1 and I got a cleaner stacked image from 12 shots of a crocus flower that needed limited editing (but it was shot indoors). So I think the problems I have had in the past are a combination of camera stability and the ON1 app. The app does need vast improvement to clean up these artefacts/blemishes and extend the number of shots that can be stacked. The app may work on busy images for 6 shots or so, like landscapes, but for macro's it's poor.
Layers. I understand where your coming from David but we should get a much better result "Out of the Box" or there is little point in having the application in ON1.
Just for interest. Because I had the rig, I took 80 images over about 12 cm at an angle of 30 degrees; of a PCB and stacked 10 shots 8 times then stacked the 8 stacked images (you have to rename each file) so my final result was a stack of 80 shots. It looked OK but it it was a detailed subject so artefacts mostly showed up in the background areas.
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I still have the same problem even in version 2022. In the meantime, I only process my stacks in Affinity Photo or in Canon's Digital Photo Professional. There this and other stacking bugs do not exist. I also have the problem that ON1 does not accept more than 11 or 12 photos. With more photos the button for stacking becomes inactive.
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