stacked #133

[Gary Gruber]

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nicely done, Gary and great colour contrasts. What process do you use for your stacked images?

 

[Gary Gruber]

My Nikon D850 / Z8 does the stacking internally. I examine the JPG files to find a start point ( I front focus slightly) and then use Helicon Focus 8 for the stacking. They then go through my normal process of Lightroom to Photoshop.

 

[Pete Askew]

Helicon is my preferred software as well.

 

[Gary Gruber]

I like that they will handle the NEF files Nikon provides. One caveat: if you have any cloud backup services working, suspend them while working with Helicon. The inability to lock the file handle will crash Helicon.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

any cloud backup services working, suspend them while working with Helicon. The inability to lock the file handle will crash Helicon.

That happens with darktable, my favorite Raw editor, too. I don't use any cloud backup myself, but it turned out that Windows Defender/antivirus did the same thing. It only became an issue when exporting very large TIFF files, as they take so long to export.