Helicon Soft Forum

Hello, I have shot a spider sitting on a mushroom, using the camera built-in focus shift and combined the photos with HeliconSoft. Now the areas to the sides of the spider's legs are blurred. The root cause for this is pretty obvious: In those photos which are focused on the mushroom the spider's legs are out of focus and consequently wider than in the photos where the legs are in focus. When I try to correct this in the HeliconSoft post-processing section, the out-of-focus legs of the spider will become visible.

Does anyone have a clever idea how to fix this issue? The only way I can think of is

• copy the stacked photo

• copy 1: use a convenient tool (Lightroom, Photoshop) to "repair" the incriminating areas in

• copy 2:separate the spider

• overlay the two copies again

It would be a nightmare to keep the fines hairs of the spider in step 3.

Thanks for any contribution, and best regards,
Markus

You can't cheat physics, but you can make some adjustments to make the blurring less pronounced. For example, Phil has recently shared some tips here: viewtopic.php?p=27246#p27246