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June 20, 2011
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P: Focus mask / image sharpness

  • June 20, 2011
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Like a topographical map, except instead of showing altitude, show sharpness/in-focus-ness.Would allow one to see at a glance where the focal plane lies, and how well focused is the photo at the focal plane (and everywhere else), and what is the depth of field.PhaseOne took a whack at this in CaptureOne. I think their implementation has some weaknesses: shows focal plane, but no indication of how well focused at the plane, and gives no sense of depth of field, but is still quite useful.See http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh... for a related idea, that would go nicely with this one.If you like this idea, please remember to click the '+1' button below.

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    Jeff Ultimate
    Participant
    October 23, 2015


    In Grid view, it would make culling so much faster if we could have some sort of Focus Mask (like Capture One).
    Please add something to easily see if a photo is properly focused without having to zoom in on it. Thanks!!!
    someu27168340
    someu27168340
    Participant
    April 16, 2013
    I just read the information about Lightroom 5 and I'm really sad that Focus Mask is not part of the release...

    I work with a 12fps dslr and when shooting sport I can burst 10-15 images each time I press the shutter button. It's not an option, it's MANDATORY for me to check the focus of images before retouching them.

    Focus Mask is long overdue and would be much much more useful than a lot of other features.
    Jarno__
    Jarno__
    Participating Frequently
    April 16, 2013
    Focus Peaking is the right feature. It shows areas of the photos that are in focus (i.e. are sharp). This can be calculated from sharpness in the image. There SW that can do it already.

    This should be available in Library and Development modules to enable fast image picking and filtering.
    someu27168340
    someu27168340
    Participant
    December 7, 2012
    Great plugin btw. I use it when I can but having the focus plane evaluated while Lightroom create the preview image would be ideal.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    December 7, 2012
    It would be interesting if the implementation was similar to the focus peaking points used on film sets by focus pullers.
    This has also been recreated by the guys at Magic Lantern for DSLRs.

    Any focus mask feature would make such a speed difference for me after my shoots.
    someu27168340
    someu27168340
    Participant
    November 27, 2012
    It would be very useful if Lightroom could display where the focus is sharp on an image. Much like exposure clipping, turning white to red and black to blue, focus mask would color the area of the image that is most in focus.

    This would make it very quick to find the best in focus image in a series of pictures.

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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      November 27, 2012
      Lightroom: Automatic focus checking when comparing hunderts of images from a session, like Capture One does. This allows the pro who's working with high volume to quickly sort out misfocused frames or motion-blurred frames.

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      Ross Dillon
      Known Participant
      November 27, 2012
      Capture One reportedly has a new feature where a green mask is overlaid where the picture is most in focus (thumbnails as well). As an action shooter (sports, airshows, etc) that would greatly help identify OOF shots for disposal.



      Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Lightroom/Camera Raw: Display camera focus information topic.

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      jarnoh11691516
      Inspiring
      June 8, 2012
      I've created a Lightroom plugin for this:

      http://www.capturemonkey.com/focusmask
        Royi A
        Royi A
        Inspiring
        October 16, 2011
        I don't think that would do. The method I know and have implemented estimate the blur parameter using Maximum Likelihood Estimator. I'm sure there are better and simpler methods.
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