How to Focus Stack in Photoshop // Tutorial
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2021
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Focus stacking should be one of the first things you learn in photoshop. Why? Because its one of the few things that cannot be done in camera and has a dramatic effect on the image quality of your images. - Jak na to + styl
Fantastic video! I’ve always found this confusing and could never really get it right. Your step by step directions and tip to make copies prior to running the process in Photoshop was a huge help. Thank you for teaching us how it’s done!
Your videos have been invaluable for my reintroduction into landscape photography and editing. Picked up a wacom (where's it been all my life!?) and started applying more advanced luminosity masks adjustments and dodging/burning techniques. Now I'm taking focus stacking to the field. My confidence post-shoot has been roaring lately and the time in the digital darkroom is so enjoyable. Keep up the great work!
This is by far the best, most comprehensive, and simplest tutorial of the countless focus stacking videos out there. Bless you.
I always learn something new ... thank you. Today, I learned about using the folders in Photoshop. I love using Nikon’s touch screen shutter release for landscape photo stacking and their “focus shift shooting” mode for automated shooting when doing macro photography. The toolkit is always improving!
Nick,
You are gifted teacher who can present information in a clear and concise way for people to learn easily. I miss your tutorials and hope all is well. John
I was going through your Essential Photoshop practice files where we go through focus stacking and then this video showed up. Both are very well done. Thanks!
Been focus stacking using Photoshop for years so assumed I had it nailed. Then you threw in the tip about duplicating the layers as a back-up. Boom! I never thought of that. Thank you Nick. A valuable lesson.
First time i tried to focus stack was today...got lost watching other videos and yours nailed it! I appreciate the help! Great photos by the way!
This was a HUGE help Nick. I love your teaching style. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you, Nick. You've made the photo stacking process so easy. I really appreciate it.
You answered a key question for me in regards to why a certain number of images go into any given focus stack. Many thanks for taking the time to put this info together. Top shelf as always 🤘
Hi Nick: I just discovered your teaching videos on photo stacking. Thanks for making it clear and understandable for us Photoshop newbies. I have listened to hundreds of CZcams videos and your's is one of the best.
As a young, emerging photographer I always wanted to learn how to focus stack my images, but was always overwhelmed with the thought of it being to complex.. today I eventually ventured into it and found your video. What a gem!
Clear, concise, helpful … thank you so much! That one small thing has made such a change to my image making already ! 🙌
I’ve subbed 📸 thank again!!
I was literally just focus stacking some photos of the snow in Texas from this past week. Perfect timing for me! Thanks for another great video.
Nick its great to see you back in the education saddle. Enjoyed this tutorial its simple, attainable, repeatable, and effective. Your winter camp vlog was timely as I had just returned home from my winter camp. Purpose was to camp, ski, and take photos. Winter had a different objective as the temperature dropped into the -30C area and the winds picked up into the 50-70 kph range. Had a blast keeping the fire going in my tent, but didn't take many photos. Your camping Vlog and now focus stacking renewed my ideas to head back to Abraham Lake and make more images. Thanks Nick.
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thanks so much Nick for publishing this on Focus Stacking! It is such an needed remedy for so many contrasting frames, albeit all frames!
Short, concise and incredibly useful. Thanks Nick!
Bro, english is not my first language and you speak so easy to understand. I loved this tutorial, you ROCK!
Thank you! A great tutorial and one of the best and most comprehensive I have seen on the subject.
An excellent tip for focusing on landscape pictures. I use Lightroom for 95% of my editing and hardly use Photoshop because of the layer feature which I find to be too tedious. I occasionally use Photoshop Elements for fine-tuning cloning and such. This method makes it relatively easy to do this and get great results in Photoshop without the steep learning curve. Very useful tip.
Outstanding pace and detail! Thank you. Now, I need a good complete course on Photoshop.
Thank you Nick, I ran into Ben out at Death Valley last weekend with him doing one of his shots with his 8X10 and seeing and being a fan of his and yours, I decided for this trip to set up more of my shots for processing with Focus stacking, this video came at teh perfect time and plan to later today start the process of focus stackin in order to get my shot from Dante and Badwater so much better. Thank you and Ben is one hell of a nice guy and true master on his Large Format. Thanks again
This is super helpful, Nick. Thanks so much for doing this. Seen a few other videos on it but yours is the simplest yet most detailed. Thank you.
Just wanted to say thanks for this. I've been putting PS off for a long time, and recently got into doing more landscape stuff. I learned about you and your channel after I got the F4 Roadtrip package (originally started watching Tom, then Gavin), and this was one of the suggested videos for me from your channel. Focus stacking was one of those things on the short list of things I wanted to learn, and your video was great. I now see everyone that's doing landscape has a focus stacking tutorial video lol, but you helped me, so I just wanted to say thank you.
I'm so excited to try this, thanks for sharing! I guess my question then becomes when to focus stack and when not to, sounds like it may be more of a artistic decision. I find I've often been a bit intimidated on getting more into photoshop but working on that being a high priority this year to really improve my images. I hate it too when taking pretty high f-stop images getting those nasty dust spots, so this sounds like a better option when I can.
Thanks Nick - the fog has lifted for this Grandma! I will now give this a go as previously I was in a state of muddle but after watching this I think I can do it!
Good tip about copying images into a group. Too often I get a blob or smear when I auto blend.
Thanks for an absolutely brilliant guide to Focus Stacking. Wonderful stuff.
Thanks Nick! This is unlike I've ever seen before and such a simple way to focus stack. I can't wait till the day that all of this will just happen right in camera. im sure its coming sooner then later.
Thanks Nick, I now know what I was doing wrong when stacking and stitching. Very well explained.
This tutorial is superb, now I'm focus stacking like a pro. Thanks Nick.
I just wanted to say a quick thank you. This video helped me so much and I've finally managed to compose my first focus stacked image. I am so stoked right now! Thanks again!
Thanks for the followable tutorial. I'm just learning PS, but have wondered how to perfect sharpness in my images. Thanks so much!
Thanks Nick for this very clear explanation. As you say, “why wouldn’t you do it!”. 👍
Great tutorial. I like they idea of putting the images in a separate file if the blend goes wrong, unfortunately it went okay. I would love to see a video/tutorial on how you would correct it with your copied folder if it did go wrong.
Thank you so much!! I’ve been frightened to even try you made this look so easy I’m willing to try now!
Great tutorial Nick, thanks. For anyone that is a Canon R5 or R6 owner use the Focus stacking tool, works amazing. It shoots the images so quickly you can focus stack and hand hold at same time. Doesn't seem to matter what settings you use either, camera just knows how many to take and where to focus for each image. Never seen it work so well on any camera until now.
Yes, Canon cameras focus stack very well. Too bad the Canon cameras don't do the final process in camera!
Great video, very informative and appreciate hearing about the Great Courses. Thank you for doing these videos, they are so helpful and I learn so much.
As a past Darktable user, and new user to the most recent Adobe suite, thank you for the very informative video. I have been a subscriber for some time now but have never heard of your golf course superintendent background. My father was one of the Treasurers of the National Golf Course Superintendent's Association a long time ago, and in the business for more than 4 decades. He got me started in photography at a very early age, and to see the commonalities is really cool. Thank you for your insight and wisdom...you have made me a better photographer by your efforts!
Thank you so much for sharing Nick.
Perfect simple explanation! Focus stacking here I come.
Thank you Nick! I think this knowledge will make the biggest difference in my photos.
Thank you for sharing, showing, and explaining this simple and easy process!!
Thank you.. focus stacking replicates the way we see nature!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you. I was trying to photo stack my images in Lightroom rather than Photoshop and couldn't work out why they weren't merging. However, success in Photoshop after following your tutorial. PS : I am a fan if the Great Courses.
I love focus stacking nick. Loved this video as it will just help others. Thanks for sharing.
Got to say Nick you explain things so well - really easy to follow - defo saved this vlog to my favs for future reference...
What a fine video that breaks down each stone i this complicated task.
You know you are experienced when you say "Make a back up, because......" - thank you!
Agree - the Great Courses are wonderful.
Great tutorial Nick. Thanks.. keep 'em comin'
So thank you for this and for all you do Nick. Been digging your videos and process for years. Especially your style of a lot of atmospheric audio and 'setting the scene' for the beginning of videos, I often forget that you haven't even said a word for minutes at a time. Engaging stuff. Anyway, I seem to have decent success with stacking when there aren't too many complicated/busy layers, but sometimes it just doesn't seem to go right. I was recently shooting some tree trunks popping out of manzanita bushes in Bend, Oregon and at the edges of the first layer (foreground) where it meets the second layer (mid), there is an obvious 4 or 5 pixel border where it used the out of focus mid layer, from my foreground image, instead. It also didn't fill in some of the spaces between the manzanita leaves with the focused mid-layer, so there's blur between those leaves as well. Is that simply because I didn't have enough images to stack? I had 3 images (foreground, mid, background). I was using a Sony 24-70, about 18" or so from the front of my foreground. I'm not experienced enough to mess with the layer masks to try to fix it, but figured in case you needed an idea for another quarantine-studio-video, maybe you had some ideas on how to fine tune those types of edits if it's even at all possible. I'm happy to send you the files if that helps. (P.S. The Great Courses Plus is a goldmine!!! I shoot a lot of my jobs on my own, so I'm a podcast/audiobook sponge also, so thank you for that!!)
Excellent tutorial Nick, very impressed with all your videos. Many thanks.
Got this notification right as I was looking up how to focus stack. Thanks Nick!
Love this video. What a great tutorial. Thanks Nick!
Wow! I followed along with you to make my first focus stack. Knocked my socks off! Thanks!
Absolutely stellar explanation. Comprehensive although easy to the ear.
Ben Horne has become the “reference” for everyone and everything!!! Ha, loved it!!!
I was introduced to focus stacking through macro photography, using Zerene Stacker, a necessity when stacking dozens to hundreds of subs (or it’s counterpart Helicon). However I’ve only lately started applying focus stacking to landscapes when necessary, and your tutorial stands out from those I’ve viewed for all the reasons cited by those who have commented. I should have started here, and I know better:-).
Excellent job Nick, thanks a lot.
Great video. Never considered photo stacking before, looking forward to trying it out.
Fantastic. I had no idea about auto-blend. Game-changer!
You really made it easy to understand, well done and thank you for the tuturial Nick!
That's a bloody awesome video, presented with great articulation. Many thanks!
The best stacking info online-thanks Nick
You are a very good communication Nick... many thanks for that. I'm going to have to retrace every landscape shot I've ever done now!! Might have to get a new camera for the occasion!!
PERFECT video for anyone just wanting to bust this out and make it happen. The juice sprays right at 4:13 if anyone just want to dive right in. Thanks Nick!
Such a great video, and such a powerful process for creating amazing images! Thank you!
Wow, I'm glad this video came up in my suggested videos (although I've been subscribed for a while). Focus stacking is so easy - I never did it because I did not know how to but after this why wouldn't I do it. Thanks Nick!
Thank you for sharing this Nick. It will really help me going forward.
Great content man, you broke it down really simple and once I get off work tonight I shall try it out.
As usual Nick your videos are easy to follow with great tips. Good job.
Thanks Nick. You make it easy!
Brilliantly articulated. Many thanks
Nick - many thanks - great tutorial
Wow! Amazing video and instruction. My first try was very good! TY
Sweet segue and relatable explanation of your sponsorship. Those e-books are great for road trips!
Thank you sir, you convinced me to use stacking for landscapes.
Great video Nick! You make it sound so easy.
Great information and so well-explained. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic Nick, thank you; I have been focus stacking using masks , this way is so much simpler!
Thank you for this video! This is exactly what I needed to learn.
Amazing lesson!! thank you - by far one of the best Photoshop videos
Yes, still using in 2024!
Very useful and easy to follow video Nick, thanks!
Great tutorial! Finally got it!
Great snappy tutorial again Nick..👍🏻 Great delivery! And to top it, I’m a history (early British) nerd too..Result!
Thank you for your help Nick ..excellent..x
Fantastic video!! I have watched a few new trying to learn how to do this and yours was by far the easiest to follow. I've subscribed and Im off to watch more from you. Thank you!
Hey man. Thanks again for the advice on my photo that I shared on your fb page.
I totally knew where I had went wrong but I needed to here it from someone who’s work I admire and respect artistically.
Very informative video, Nick! You are easy to follow and it makes sense!
Great video again Nick. East to understand and well explained. Top man.
History Nerd=Awesomeness. Loved the folder for copy idea. I'll road test your instructions. Loved the Alabama Hills image. Journeyed the 44 miles there recently and dang there were so many people out there! Such a buzz kill. We did find solitude on Tuttle Creek Road, thankfully. Lack of people is one of the best parts of the East Side.
Thanks again for these videos and some short cuts.
Thank you Nick for sharing. I'd like that Lightroom being able to do that like we can do it for combining different pictures with a different exposure and get a HDR result.
You make this very easy to digest... thank you for another awesome video!
Thank you for another wonderful video!
Excelent tutorial. I shall certainly watch more.
Thanks Nick.............this really HELPED
This worked perfectly. Thanks for de-mystifying this!
THANK YOU! Nice Simple to the point + EXCELLENT AUDIO!
Focus stacking made easy. Thanks Nick
Great Video, thanks for the lesson. Now I just need to go and practice it.