Lesson Info
30. Focus Stacking in Photoshop
Lessons
DAY 1
1Course Introduction
01:59 2Camera Gear for Travel
28:20 3What Camera Gear Should You Buy?
13:58 4Gear Bags for Travel Photography
20:19 5Location Research and Pre-Trip Planning
21:01 6Importing and Naming Conventions in Lightroom
19:33 7Processing Images with Presets in Lightroom
27:06Basic Develop Module Processing
20:59 9Travel Architecture Photography
07:29 10Tourists in Your Shots
21:28 11Travel Panoramas
08:07 12Travel Street Photography
22:45 13What to Photograph While Traveling
21:16 14Night Photography Tips
03:26 15Adjusting for Clean Backgrounds
26:00 16How to Correct Composition in Camera
18:46 17Framing and Composition Tips
21:23 18Folder System in Lightroom
33:04 19How to Find Any Image in Lightroom
06:16 20Keywording Tactics in Lightroom
18:04 21Sort Keywords in Lightroom
28:30 22Update Default Settings in Lightroom
15:55 23How to Process HDR Images in Lightroom
21:34 24Adjusting Panoramas in Lightroom
07:50 25Adjustment Brush in Lightroom
20:05 26Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
04:31 27Switching from Lightroom to Photoshop
12:42 28Using Masks to Make Adjustments in Photoshop
23:20 29Composite Images in Photoshop
31:09 30Focus Stacking in Photoshop
02:23 31Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
05:05 32Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
06:12 33Lens Specifications and Performance
39:06 34Clone Stamp, Healing Brush and Spot Healing in Photoshop
10:55 35Removing Tourists in Shots using Photoshop
07:49 36Tricks to Manual Cloning in Photoshop
08:51 37Content Aware Feature vs Healing Tools
16:30DAY 2
Lesson Info
Focus Stacking in Photoshop
Somebody asked about focus stacking, so let's talk about that briefly. I'm going to take these two images and I'm going to do the same thing we did to the others, and that was what, Edit in, Open as Layers. That's going to stack them one on top of the other. Remember, usually I'd optimize them first, make sure I get the most out of Lightroom, and let's take a look at what we have. We have a sign in the distance and that's what I focused on, but the broken glass is out of focus. Turn that off and on the layer underneath, I just moved the focus ring on my lens to capture the sharp glass. Then I'm going to take those two images now and first I might need to use auto align, but I'll try it without. I'm assuming I didn't move very much. We'll find out. I'm just going to choose Auto-Blend Layers. When I choose Auto-Blend Layers, there are two settings, panorama and stack. It'll automatically pick the right one. And I'm going to click OK. What it's doing is looking for where it's sharpest and...
only using that part. It's comparing the two layers, saying in this layer, for this little bitty part of the image, is this layer sharper than the one below? If so, use it, and hide the one that was less sharp. It's called focus stacking. You do it when you just can't get everything sharp. Be careful, though, because if there are other objects that were in between these and all I did was get the glass sharp in one shot, the sign sharp in the other, in the thing that was in between, like a car part there, was not sharp in either one, it's going to look weird because you'll have sharp close to you, blurry, and then sharp far away. Sometimes you need three, four, five shots, to get the various things, and sometimes there are a few issues. I can see one issue right here, but it wouldn't be terrible to retouch. Just right there it looks a little odd. And so that could be a little retouch. But that's focus stacking.
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