P: Auto Blend Layers not focus blending - Photoshop 2014.1

It's been over a month since the problem with auto merge was noted, but still no fix. Any idea when this issue will be resolved?

Same underlying cause as this issue - which we have acknowledged and are testing a fix for.

I have just downloaded the new update for CC. Now THE AUTO MERGE PANORAMA WILL NOT STITCH!!!!!!. is anyone else having this problem. stupid updates adobe please fix this bug ASAP

Dissapointelly found, that in PS CC it is a problem with Auto Blend Layers. Than trying to stack focus in my images, it's only placing the white mask on the last layer, not defining the sharp areas. Found a lot of notes about of this problem, but it seems still didn't fixes! https://forums.adobe.com/thread/15427...
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Any update I am having the same problem!!!

Especially true as there was an Adobe video on Facebook last week saying how great the feature is.

I'm having the same problem and I reverted to the previous version. It's been over 30 days now since Adobe acknowledged the problem and I don't think they have issued any status update as to when this will be fixed. Would be nice to hear from them.

I have used many versions of Photoshop in the past for some time for focus stacking. It's usually pretty easy. I shoot my stack, import to Lightroom, usually correct one image in LR, copy the settings to the other images, select them all and use "edit in" to "open as layers in Photoshop."

I then select all the layers, and "auto align" them. I then select all the layers and "auto blend" them. I usually then have a bunch of layers with variable layer masks which I either try to retouch or just flatten. My computer is a new Mac Pro with plenty of SSD space and RAM.

I did this yesterday with 24 images of a dahlia. They were shot with a D800E, 85mm PCE lens, on a sturdy Gitzo 3 series tripod with an Arca B1 head and RRS rail. I used Photoshop CC 2014.

I ended up with all blank black layer masks except for the bottom one, which was white. The image was clearly NOT focus stacked when I flattened it. It had huge out of focus areas.

I took the same images and did the same thing on my Macbook Pro laptop and got the same result using Photoshop CC 2014

I downloaded a trial of Helicon Focus and tried using it on the Mac Pro and the result looked great. I'm happy to invest in software that works but I do pay US$9.99/month for Creative Cloud and feel it should do what it says it will do and what it has done before.

I then did the same thing with Photoshop CS6 on the new Mac Pro and VOILA it worked like it used to.

Has anyone else tried this and had similar problems with CC 2014? It sounds like a bug, a serious bug for me, with CC 2014.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Eric

Focus Stacking works great in PS CS 6, poorly in PS CC and not at all in PS CC 2014.
Not only don't we have Mini Bridge anymore but we don't have focus stacking any more either. With two major losses from CS6 whats the point of the cloud based product?

Cannot say I'm too impressed after all the hype about the CC. I did a class where I supposed to teach macro photography, and it was kind embarrassing when I tried to demonstrate focus stacking with images I had tested before at home when I prepared the course.