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Bob Trlin
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November 30, 2015
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P: Add Focus Stacking to Merge

  • November 30, 2015
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Firmware Version 4.0 for the Olympus E-M1 has just come out with in-camera focus stacking. Actually this is limited to a maximum 8 shot focus bracket. However, if one is happy to do the focus stacking in PP, the camera will do up to a 99 shot focus bracket. No it is not a typo, I mean 99 as in 1 less than a hundred. Photoshop and a myriad other third party apps will do that or so I'm told. So, isn't it time to have focus stacking in LR? I have no desire to stuff around with two photographic apps. So let's make a noise to get focus stacking into LR proper!Regards,Bob Single Shot, 120mm f5.6 Focus Stacking of 150 shots, 120mm f5/6PS: Note, I've amended my comments above from earlier today.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    November 10, 2016
    As a long time LR user this is also my top request.  I'm with the prior poster, HDR and panoramic merging were at the time of the last release my most desired features - well done Adobe.  Keep on a roll and add focus stacking in a RAW workspace please!
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      jordanrphoto
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      July 20, 2016
      This is my top request for Lightroom and seems a natural progression to HDR and panoramic merging added with Lr6
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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      May 4, 2016
      The only thing I miss in LR6 is focus stacking. I would like to see Adobe implement it in the future. This is useful for both macro photography and landscape photography. It would be a natural extension of the current "Photo Merge" feature.
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      Bob TrlinAuthor
      Inspiring
      November 30, 2015
      It was remiss of me not to give credit where credit is due. The photos I posted above came from the Olympus site http://cameras.olympus.com/stack/en-au/
      rafasgj
      rafasgj
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      November 30, 2015


      Now that we have a whole menu for "Photo Merge" in Lightroom (CC/6), some more options could be available for merging photos.

      For example, Focus Stacking for macro photos, or "Star Stacking" (image alignment and merge with median filter) for astrophotography would be very useful to have, and it seems that most (if not all) of the machinery is already available in Lightroom.

      Also, object removal through image stacking seems to be possible with current existing filters.
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