Thanks for figuring out this 16 bit trick! I think we will not be able to reproduce the problem.

This answer doesn't help me. It is not a trick, but a bug !!!

In fact the layer export does not work at all with 16-bit files (which, however, is a standard configuration for professional picture ...

I repeated the focus stacking with original files converted to 8-bit depth, and now the layer export works. I attach a screenshot of my Adobe Bridge window.

Just to remember: the focus stacking also works with 16-bit file, it is just the layer export which fails.

Please tell me, if I should really ...

For some reason I could not edit my previous post and attach an additional file.

So there is another bug resp. question concerning the "opacity map".

It is a small 512x512 px image which is vertically obviously distorted compared to the original pictures in landscape format (8956 x 6708 px).

And ...

Sorry,
but there must definitively be something wrong.

I attach three screen shots of Photoshop which show
- the result file
- the depth map
- the first exported layer.

I removed the transparency of the exported layer file and it can be seen quite clearly that this is just a part of the ...

I installed the trial version of Helicon Focus and did a test which worked very well. The only thing I don't understand is the use of the layer export.

The help function to my opinion gives little clarity about the use of this option and how to proceed with the png-files.

For safety I attach a ...