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Is there a single photo-editing task you do often that Windows freeware just can't do?
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:12:06 -0400, in news
PeterN wrote:
Perhaps one day I will learn focus stacking. I like the effects. There are some obstacles for me. 1. I don't have the patience. 2. My BW does not want bugs brought into the house. 3. I am not certain I have the interest in super macro. Try this. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly.jpg From here. https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.p...topic&nojs= 1 Since the cost of freeware is learning how to use it and finding the best, I just ran this test using the 8MB www.picolay.de Picolay focus-stacking freeware, which you can run yourself in just a few minutes. 1. Pick up a set of images to focus stack from anywhere. If you like, use this set of six photos. I cropped each using Irfanview and did not make any attempt to center the separate images (just to see how that offset affects the focus-stack results). Picolay can center them it seems, and crop them, but I just wanted to run the very first single-button test below. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly_1.jpg http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly_2.jpg http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly_3.jpg http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly_4.jpg http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly_5.jpg http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/08/28/ohmyafly_6.jpg 2. Start Picolay and load the six photos with File Add Images 3. Press F1 in Picolay to stack the images above using default parameters Wait for Picolay to finish. That's it for your very first test of focus-stacking freeware. -- Tutorial http://www.picolay.icbm.de/tutorial_e.pdf FAQ http://www.picolay.icbm.de/picolay_h...s_tricks_e.htm |
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Is there a single photo-editing task you do often that Windows freeware just can't do?
Davoud:
Anyway, regardless of platform, try focus-stacking 20 exposures to produce a macro like this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/34885963754 with freeware. I doubt it can be done. I used Photoshop CC 2017. PeterN: Perhaps one day I will learn focus stacking. I like the effects. There are some obstacles for me. 1. I don't have the patience. 2. My BW does not want bugs brought into the house. Your reasons are irrefutable. I would say, however, that while it takes a few minutes to prepare the camera and subject, focus-stacking is simple enough once the preparations are made. The process has no steep learning curve. The Novoflex Castel-Q Focusing Rack is quite easy to use, even without automation. Turn the knob, click, turn the knob, click... I generally make fewer exposures than the pros, but I still get decent results https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/14480135987. I have recently replaced my Manfrotto ball head with a Manfrotto 405 Pro Digital Geared head. So much easier to use https://www.adorama.com/bg405.html. My wife has no problem with bugs in the kitchen. She even helped me photograph a mouse https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/9068026793. She also buys my toys for me. She wasn't home when I brought the juvenile blacksnake in, and she was livid when she saw the photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/7749858040! Seems she has an irrational fear/hatred of snakes. 3. I am not certain I have the interest in super macro. Lack of interest is particularly irrefutable. Different strokes... Sometimes super-macro isn't enough. For those times I have a microscope with a camera port https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/33274670196. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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Is there a single photo-editing task you do often that Windows freeware just can't do?
On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:07:19 -0000 (UTC), Blake Snyder
wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:55:27 -0400, in , nospam wrote: you're assuming that if something claims it can do focus stacking, it is automatically just as good as the best professional tools. ct free arguments are all you can do which just waste everyone's time. I completely agree. But he's a troll. If you reply to a troll, you too are wasting everyone's time. Please, please, please, killfile him. |
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Is there a single photo-editing task you do often that Windows freeware just can't do?
Ken Blake
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:40:42 GMT in rec.photo.digital, wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:07:19 -0000 (UTC), Blake Snyder wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:55:27 -0400, in , nospam wrote: you're assuming that if something claims it can do focus stacking, it is automatically just as good as the best professional tools. ct free arguments are all you can do which just waste everyone's time. I completely agree. But he's a troll. If you reply to a troll, you too are wasting everyone's time. Please, please, please, killfile him. I was hesitant to go ahead and do so for a period of time. Entirely hoping I'd learn something useful from the individual. It finally occured to me that I was wasting my time and everyone elses reading my replies to it. So, off to the filtering it went. Contrary to what some may think, I'm not visiting this newsgroup to engage in petty arguments. -- https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php http://picpaste.com/B4rjEFK0.jpg - David and Trisha http://picpaste.com/U5np7XvN.jpg - RIAA love David style http://picpaste.com/rjIb8Mht.jpg - David And Trisha introducing Nick! http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk/bdemail1.zip - The *STALKING* begins. Cats don't correct your stories. |
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Is there a single photo-editing task you do often that Windows freeware just can't do?
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 04:42:38 -0000 (UTC), Diesel wrote:
Ken Blake Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:40:42 GMT in rec.photo.digital, wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:07:19 -0000 (UTC), Blake Snyder wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:55:27 -0400, in , nospam wrote: you're assuming that if something claims it can do focus stacking, it is automatically just as good as the best professional tools. ct free arguments are all you can do which just waste everyone's time. I completely agree. But he's a troll. If you reply to a troll, you too are wasting everyone's time. Please, please, please, killfile him. I was hesitant to go ahead and do so for a period of time. Entirely hoping I'd learn something useful from the individual. It finally occured to me that I was wasting my time and everyone elses reading my replies to it. So, off to the filtering it went. Contrary to what some may think, I'm not visiting this newsgroup to engage in petty arguments. Oh please, spare us. You're gonna burn in hell for your trolling. You can't hack your way through the pearly gates sonny although you could try bribery. Sent from my iFurryUnderbelly. -- p-0.0-h the cat Internet Terrorist, Mass sock puppeteer, Agent provocateur, Gutter rat, Devil incarnate, Linux user#666, ******* hacker, Resident evil, Monkey Boy, Certifiable criminal, Spineless cowardly scum, textbook Psychopath, the SCOURGE, l33t p00h d3 tr0ll, p00h == lam3r, p00h == tr0ll, troll infâme, the OVERCAT [The BEARPAIR are dead, and we are its murderers], lowlife troll, shyster [pending approval by STATE_TERROR], cripple, sociopath, kook, smug prick, smartarse, arsehole, moron, idiot, imbecile, snittish scumbag, liar, total ******* retard, shill, pooh-seur, scouringerer, jumped up chav, lycanthropic schizotypal lesbian, the most complete ignoid, joker, and furball. NewsGroups Numbrer One Terrorist Honorary SHYSTER and FRAUD awarded for services to Haberdashery. By Appointment to God Frank-Lin. Signature integrity check md5 Checksum: be0b2a8c486d83ce7db9a459b26c4896 I mark any message from »Q« the troll as stinky |
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