- #Helicon focus vs photoshop cs6 how to#
- #Helicon focus vs photoshop cs6 manual#
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This could have been done in thousand different ways but that's how I did it. The resulting pictures were combined together on a common canvas in Photoshop, and texts and arrows added subsequently in Voila. The two final images, one from Helicon and one from Photoshop, I then opened in Lightroom and only corrected them for color balance by picking a gray spot in the meerkat's nose.
#Helicon focus vs photoshop cs6 how to#
I'm not getting into details how to do this in Photoshop as the net is loaded with reviews and videos about this. Returning to Photoshop with the original 36 source files, I created 9 HDR files first with the Photoshop HDR function, whom I then combined via the Photoshop focus stacking (edit blend layers) function into a final shot. The combined result for HDR/FS out of Helicon Focus is shown on the left on the picture above (click for larger view). They seem to process all the frames at once. In honesty, I have no idea how they do HDR first and focus stacking next, I couldn't find anywhere where they explain that particular detail, so I asked them by email yesterday, but received no reaction yet. Once all my shots were done (4 for Exposure bracketing for 9 focus points in all, that is 36 frames in total), I loaded them in Helicon Focus for post-processing and let Helicon do the rest. I applied Exposure Bracketing for this demonstration and defined 4 bracket points with 1/3 diaphragm distance between them. An additional Remote bonus is the ability to bracket exposure up to 15 different points and define the shooting parameters for each one of them individually (if you got the patience and know what you're doing, that is).
#Helicon focus vs photoshop cs6 manual#
You can preview the results live (for Canon gear it can also show actual Depth of Field - DOF) and you can define the manual settings for exposure and speed, as well as the ISO setting, with their direct visual effect shown on your computer monitor. To understand how Helicon Remote works, you define the closest focus point, then the farthest, and it calculates the number of shots needed for best results between the two extremes, as well as the interval between two consecutive focus points. Helicon has plenty of functions and parameters to both, shoot pictures and post-process them. The Photoshop is part of my Creative Suite 6 Academic Edition.
#Helicon focus vs photoshop cs6 pro#
I received Remote together with Helicon Focus Pro on an one year user license. The shots were programmed with Helicon Remote tethered to the 5D. The meerkat is a present I got on my latest b-day.
I'll only share my experience on the results of focus stacking based on a series of frames shot with my 5D Mark III and the Canon 100mm macro lens. It's only about focus stacking, for which Helicon Focus is actually made, whereas for Photoshop it's only one of thousands of functionalities it otherwise offers. To clear things up beforehand, this is not an exhaustive comparison of the two as it would defeat the purpose.
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