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by PhilS
09.02.2024 18:11
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Hardware acceleration failing
Replies: 7
Views: 1307

Re: Hardware acceleration failing

No corruption issues when working with images in any other software.
by PhilS
07.02.2024 19:44
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Hardware acceleration failing
Replies: 7
Views: 1307

Re: Hardware acceleration failing

Hi Catherine,

two screen shots with hardware acceleration turned off:
HF data 2.jpg
(793.23 KiB) Not downloaded yet
HF data 1.jpg
(303.61 KiB) Not downloaded yet
Do you want me to redo with acceleration turned on?

Thanks,

Phil
by PhilS
06.02.2024 17:43
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Hardware acceleration failing
Replies: 7
Views: 1307

Re: Hardware acceleration failing

Will do…tomorrow when I get home
by PhilS
05.02.2024 16:41
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Hardware acceleration failing
Replies: 7
Views: 1307

Re: Hardware acceleration failing

Hi Catherine,

Yes, this is on the same machine. I can try running the file on my laptop if you want.
info on image 109.jpg
(299.68 KiB) Not downloaded yet
Is this the info you want?

Thanks,

Phil
by PhilS
31.01.2024 04:44
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Hardware acceleration failing
Replies: 7
Views: 1307

Hardware acceleration failing

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 render,...
by PhilS
12.01.2024 23:21
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

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!...
by PhilS
06.01.2024 00:46
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Mac OS 14.2.1 (23C71)
by PhilS
05.01.2024 20:23
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Confirmed --

no problems with OpenCL disabled.
problems reoccur with OpenCL is enabled.

I tested off/on three times.
by PhilS
04.01.2024 16:11
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Good morning, Catherine, Some good news and bad news. Good news -- I downloaded and installed version 8.2.11. The hardware acceleration option worked! Medium news -- the 76-image test took 26 seconds, compared to 106 seconds with the old computer and no acceleration or parallel image reading. Bad ne...
by PhilS
03.01.2024 21:07
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Hi Catherine,

Auto~=Enabled makes sense.

I am using 8.2.6 and HF thinks I am up-to-date.

I still don't have any ideas why I can't get Open CL to work. I am getting the same errors today as I did back in 2023. Got any ideas?

Thanks,

Phil
by PhilS
27.12.2023 20:56
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Hi Catherine, Happy New Year. I upgraded to an M2 Ultra Mac with 8TB of SSD internal memory. Storage is no longer a problem for a year's photographs. A 1:46 rendering of 76 454MB tif images took 1:01 with the new hardware with no additional acceleration. A good improvement, but not life-altering. :-...
by PhilS
27.11.2023 21:56
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Catherine,

Thank you for the hardware thoughts. More importantly, thank you for giving me a solution to speed problems that I could immediately implement—I put the tiffs on the SSD, and Helicon Focus was very fast!

Thanks,

Phil
by PhilS
26.11.2023 23:29
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac
Replies: 15
Views: 81637

Re: Speeding up Helicon Focus on a Mac

Helicon Focus 8.2.6
I don't know how to enable hardware acceleration. How do I do that?

Since a couple of days ago, the files went from an SSD to an external drive. I ran out of space. I'll put them back on the SSD. Good idea!

How do I enable parallel loading?

Thanks,

Phil
by PhilS
26.11.2023 23:23
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Blurring around complex shapes
Replies: 9
Views: 13218

Re: Blurring around complex shapes

Thanks, shutterbug, I'll try that if I have the patience for the multiple experiments. As I was writing this note, my camera was making 76 images; each will be 907MB. Helicon Focus experiments take a long time. I am exploring getting a faster machine.

Phil
by PhilS
24.11.2023 21:57
Forum: Helicon Focus: Macro
Topic: Blurring around complex shapes
Replies: 9
Views: 13218

Method B vs. Method C for fighting halos

Method B, as I posted earlier today /https://www.dropbox.com/s/wxuy73g1igs4p3k/shell%20outside%20spiral%20end%20lengthwise%20copy.jpg?dl=0 Method C, as suggested by shutterbug https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7gbdiiw1u42kok/shell%20outside%20spiral%20end%20lengthwise%20method%20C%20copy.jpg?dl=0 I was wro...