Maximum Detail - Macro Talk #52 - from Allan Walls Photography, July 18, 2023

The is a Lightroom and Photoshop discussion about using the new De-noise AI tool in Lightroom and how to improve your sharpening chops in Photoshop. We can also talk about of the other features that Adobe now offers. This discussion was inspired by a video that Mike Kanfer (friend of the channel) set me at the weekend. It was from f/64 Academy and was an excellent description of a Photoshop technique for a highly controllable alternative to using the clarity slider in Lightroom. The technique , which is one I have been using for a while, is similar to the unsharp mask or a reversed frequency separation, but it is also quick, easy and very versatile, allowing you to apply only as much sharp detail as you want and only where you want it. Alisdair has included a link to the video in the chat transcript (Thanks Alisdair!).
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Seems like there's the opportunity to have a specialized video codec that does stacking on the fly rather than dealing with individual images. If you could combine that with a very high frame rate and a camera that oscillates forward and backwards during shooting you could create stacked live video.

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One thing to mention is that Lightroom is a very good editing software for RAW but not so much for TIF files. While you can do a lot of great things, stuff like Exposure, Highlight or Shadow Recovery and even Clarity adjustments aren't really ideal. You'll probably get better results by doing all theses adjustments before converting the RAW files to TIF for stacking.