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by umbel
09.05.2021 17:21
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: New User: Poor Result on my First Stacks
Replies: 2
Views: 1899

Re: New User: Poor Result on my First Stacks

Left panel is the input frame that's currently selected in the list on the right hand side (the exception is when another output is selected in cross-output retouching). If the in focus parts of the input frames are soft the output frames will be soft too. Are you sure your raw workflow is applying ...
by umbel
30.03.2021 03:18
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Re: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects

Er, except stacks don't actually have to be rendered in the same direction to be marked as compatible. Because automatic alignment flips the direction for each new output, doing method B+C+B produces two B outputs having the same direction, a C output having the opposite direction, and the last B an...
by umbel
26.03.2021 02:52
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Re: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects

Hi Catherine! After going through Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W, manually setting the sorting order, and changing affinities it doesn't look like any of those are the issue. What the logs show is messages like 0.099: Abnormal magnification 1.00094 detected at image: 1 "P1090750-006.jpg" new order: Qt::...
by umbel
22.03.2021 19:39
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Re: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects

I've been monitoring Helicon's success rate in creating compatible outputs between methods B and C and it's been only in the 20-33% range on recent stacks. There is no apparent correlation with the subject of the stack, lenses used, or number of frames in the stack. These are all on tripod, autofocu...
by umbel
04.03.2021 04:58
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Re: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects

Just a bump to note I continue to hit images where outputs aren't compatible for retouching. In some cases the misalignment between method B and method C stacking is so large it's obvious when toggling between the outputs since the image jumps in the output pane. I've developed a workflow which fall...
by umbel
22.02.2021 22:59
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: CSV for batch process
Replies: 2
Views: 827

Re: CSV for batch process

Could you please describe a use case for this functionality? Hi Catherine, this a request for what's also called substacking, subslabbing, or just slabbing. Zerene has had support for quite some time, and while the Zerene documentation is somewhat terse, it does mention some basic use cases. As I u...
by umbel
22.02.2021 01:07
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching

Another variation of this issue: with OpenCL and rotational alignment some outputs don't get enabled as retouching sources unless automatic output cropping is also disabled. However, since method B and method C are somehow producing substantially different alignments from the exact same set of input...
by umbel
14.02.2021 19:41
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects

Hi Catherine, any update? Been over a month since the issue was reported and I keep hitting more failures to link outputs for retouching even with rotation and brightness adjustment disabled. Since an additional workaround appears to be disabling OpenCL it would seem there are perhaps some issues wi...
by umbel
16.01.2021 21:24
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching

Hit this same issue with cross-output retouching on a few more stacks, so tried ditching 7.6.6 and rolled back to 7.6.4. Unfortunately this issue also reproduces on 7.6.4. I've uploaded a second set of frames to the ftp server as well. So far, I've identified two mitigations. Disable adjust brightne...
by umbel
04.01.2021 00:59
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects
Replies: 10
Views: 1734

Helicon Focus 7.6.6 cross-output retouching and other code defects

Hi, hit another project bug on the fourth or fifth stack I've attempted with 7.6.6. Problem is the method B output isn't coming available for retouching the method C stack and vice versa so something's preventing Focus from seeing the stacks as compatible. I hit similar trouble occasionally in 7.6.1...
by umbel
23.12.2020 02:38
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: 7.6.4 benchmark always fails if OpenCL is not enabled
Replies: 2
Views: 1285

Re: 7.6.4 benchmark always fails if OpenCL is not enabled

Hi Catherine, that's correct. Sorry, I forgot to tick the notify box and missed your reply.

I just checked and this is fixed in 7.6.6. Thank you!
by umbel
24.10.2020 08:02
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: choosing methods for stacking
Replies: 5
Views: 1152

Re: choosing methods for stacking

When focused on the far object, the magnification of the image is larger. This is correct for hypercentric lenses. It doesn't hold for the majority case of an entocentric lens or (to a good approximation) for special cases such as telecentric lenses operating within their telecentric depth. It's po...
by umbel
24.10.2020 04:20
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: 7.6.4 benchmark always fails if OpenCL is not enabled
Replies: 2
Views: 1285

7.6.4 benchmark always fails if OpenCL is not enabled

Clean install of 7.6.4 on an i5-8265U with Win 10 Pro. Failure happens after the green bar gets all the way across, so I suspect the defect may be in the result calculations rather than the benchmark itself. Unfortunately, it looks like the logging isn't particularly informative and no dump is gener...
by umbel
15.05.2020 03:18
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.1 feedback and discussion thread (was Duration of holiday sale and development outlook?)
Replies: 22
Views: 8922

Re: Duration of holiday sale and development outlook?

All of those are already done/fixed. Nice! Glad the mockups were helpful. On further thought, the minimum width of the source image list and brush controls on the retouching tab could easily be reduced. So I uploaded another mockup showing that. This would provide about another 100 pixels of image ...
by umbel
09.05.2020 19:13
Forum: Helicon Focus: Support
Topic: Helicon Focus 7.6.1 feedback and discussion thread (was Duration of holiday sale and development outlook?)
Replies: 22
Views: 8922

Re: Duration of holiday sale and development outlook?

Hi Catherine! Good to hear from you. Already added this to the to-do list. Cool, thank you. 8) I think there may be other menu items which don't display corresponding shortcuts or mouse actions as well as some shortcuts and actions without menu items. Zoom fit, zoom 100%, and the retouching grid tog...