Thank you.

Thanks, Catherine.

Method B, for sure.

What do the white, gray and black areas refer to? And what's the difference between the images going through the first pass from the images going through the second time?

Thanks again,

Phil

I am entranced by the black and white images that get created as HeliconSoft renders an image. What are they?

What is the image that shows up in the first pass through my images? What are the white, gray, and black areas?
What is the image that shows up in the second pass through my images? What ...

I did a 158-image focus-stacking image including colorful wooden porcupine quills. Each quill had plenty of correct images to have some in focus. However, many of the quills were out of focus after the initial compositing. I used the B method. Look at the tips of quills on the right side of this ...

All images in a dropbox folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fskouf60 ... 3rnld&dl=0

Earlier posts are in the long thread at
https://forum.heliconsoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=11152

In many focus-stacked photos, there are halos of out-of-focus pixels around the edges of nearby objects. I have found some ways to deal with this problem that may be useful to others.

First, the cause ...

Thanks, Catherine!

I've got a new analysis/understanding.

I did the math about the magnification change, checked it at least three times, and had another mathematician check my work. If anyone is interested, I'll post the equations. They require no more than high school geometry and algebra.

Conclusion 1.

The ...

No corruption issues when working with images in any other software.

Hi Catherine,

two screen shots with hardware acceleration turned off:
Do you want me to redo with acceleration turned on?

Thanks,

Phil

Will do…tomorrow when I get home

Hi Catherine,

Yes, this is on the same machine. I can try running the file on my laptop if you want.
Is this the info you want?

Thanks,

Phil

Hi again, Catherine,

I am trying to composite two images, one with 32 images, the other with 116. Each file is 907 MB. Hardware acceleration would be attactrive.

When I render without Apple M2 Ultra, the compositing works fine. When I change to using Apple M2 Ultra, close and restart HF, and ...

Good news, Catherine!

I uploaded the family photos that failed on my desktop onto my laptop. They worked fine in Bridge, Photoshop, and HeliconFocus. I upgraded Capture One to the latest version on my desktop, and tried reloading the files, and exporting them to a different folder. They opened fine ...

Mac OS 14.2.1 (23C71)