Zerene focus stacker7/4/2023 ![]() So, if that’s not enough, here is a quick peek at a few of the other benefits that come along with being a Wondrium member. But you have probably already figured that out or you wouldn’t be here. Spider beetle (Ptininae, Ptinidae, Coleoptera) from Baltic Sea (Lithuania).To paraphrase our friendly neighborhood superhero: “with great memberships, come great benefits.” Joining the Wondrium world gives you access to thousands of entertaining, engaging, and educational videos across hundreds of topics, with new content added every month. This method greatly increases the possibility of “popping up” the insects, removing all the visible defects (dust, scratches, other debris…) that are located in between the camera and the insect. Looking that there are a lot of bubbles and debris in the foreground, using the retouching tools was quite easy to remove the imperfections obtaining a clean and nicer image.īelow is a Coleoptera Ptinidae as calculated without applying a sub-stacking procedure and after having processed the image using the sub-stacks previously described method and in Photoshop. From a set of 198 images, I’ve created 11 substacks composed of 20 images, compiled in Helicon, and retouched with the tools available in the software. This is the resulting output, I must improve a bit the technique of editing using multiple layers, but this is my first slabbing, then forgive me! □ Bee acquired with a LOMO 3.7x, step of 35µm, acquisition time 1/2″, home-made diffuser – 227 images 100% Cropped and unprocessed image, showing the details of the complex setaeīelow is a comparison between an image obtained using the “classic” method (stacking without slabbing) at left, and at right the same using the slabbing. On the first test I performed, the result is definitely good, I only had to do a couple of retouching and nothing else. How to operate? Here is step by step how to create a substacking:įrom the File menu you access the section Batch process… (or by pressing the F7 key): It is the possibility of making corrections from the single image stacks that allow you to get a better result. If you compile the image, based only on the substacks, the result without the operation of editing, is not particularly different from the one you get by compiling the whole set of images in one single step. The fact of using packages of substacks created from the fusion of about ten-twenty images (the number of images is user-defined, and there is no common rule), makes editing easier, less “time-consuming”, and the final result is clean and correctly displayed image. With this low DOF, the process of image correction based on individual frames (sometimes more than a hundred) is particularly tedious. This is particularly useful when you have hairs, bristles, legs or antennae that are in the foreground, and overlap with complex parts that are in the background.įor example, an image acquired with a Mitutoyo 10x lens and with a ~5µm step originates a very important number of frames. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you have created the image from the merged computed substacks, you select the intermediate images (substacks) and work with the editing tools to replace the incorrectly compiled parts. The substacking process is used to remove in the editing phase those horrible phenomena of transparency and halos present between the subjects in the foreground and those in the background. This new release includes, among other new features, a function that allows you to create substacks in an intuitive and functional way. This function (also called slabbing operation) is present in the versions of the competing software Zerene Stacker, but now is available on Helicon Focus. ![]()
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