On a positive note, it appears to be faster at focus stacking than Helicon Focus, and (of course) a LOT faster than Zerene. At least now I can see progress so I'm not sitting here watching the processor percentage to know there's activity. I was previously using "New Stack" (I hadn't watched enough videos), but now that you pointed it out, I did "New Focus Merge". How do I maintain this workflow in Affinity? And though Affinity seems to focus stack Nikon D810 RAW images successfully, it appears to ignore the adjustments made to the RAW images, so the ColorChecker profile, and I suspect other adjustements, are ignored. I know how to run Affinity as an external editor, but I haven't figured out how to have Affinity load a set of images exported from Lightroom into a "New Focus Merge", do the focus merge using the adjustments I've made to the RAW images, and have the output sent back to Lightroom so I don't have to do everything manually. I can open Affinity, do a "New Focus Stack", fetch all the images from the folder, do the stack, then write it back to the folder, but that's cumbersome and slow, especially if I have 400-500 images from a session. This is what I'd like to be able to do in Affinity. OR, depending on the situation, remain in Lightroom, select a series of images, run them through the Focus Stacking in Lightroom (which uses the RAW images in their adjusted form) and puts the stacked output with the source. ![]() Select individual series of images and export them to Helicon Focus, where they're merged, saved, and automatically imported and stacked with the source back in Lightroom. So 1 or 5 or 1000 images, they're all set to a consistent state in a matter of seconds. Take the entire session of RAW image focus stacks (not one stack but ALL the images from the session) make the gross adjustments that are best done or only available with RAW images - camera profile created from the ColorChecker, lens corrections, possibly noise reduction (it seems like doing focus stacks sometimes increases noise), white balance based on the ColorChecker. In Lightroom, generate a camera profile for the session. Shoot a ColorChecker image along with all my images from a session. Is there a complete, accurate, heavily indexed, online manual for the tool to make it easier to find and figure out how to do specific tasks (I understand WHAT I want to do, just not how Affinity handles the mechanics) WITHOUT having to sit through slow video tutorials? Having watched videos for the last six hours, I've got a better idea of how to do some things in Affinity. ![]() I've been using Photoshop since V3 and Lightroom since the first beta was released, so it's going to be a bit of a chore to decide if Affinity can do both those jobs significantly better. I'm running on Windows 10 Pro, 32GB of memory and enough horsepower so as not to be an issue. Are there parameters I need to set that will enable Affinity to create a usable output? I don't see any options for the stacking operation, and the current results are unusable. Is there a visible progress indicator in Affinity so I can see that the stacking is proceeding normally? How do I select a set of images in Lightroom and export them to Affinity for processing the stack (as I'm able with Helicon)? I presume I'm doing SOMETHING incorrectly. The Helicon stack looks fairly good, at least good enough to be usable. I've either attached or inserted files (I can't see anything so I have no idea what the forum software did). I did gross processing in Lightroom and exported. ![]() I used a simple, 6-shot series that are pretty typical in my world - one where my subjects aren't always absolutely, perfectly still. I recently downloaded Affinity Photo for Windows to test the focus stacking as compared to Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker.
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