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--- stacker:docs:howtouseit [2020/04/06 22:19]
rjlittlefield [Batch Processing] Revise for new dialog layout
+++ stacker:docs:howtouseit [2020/10/05 17:53]
rjlittlefield Clarified how to File > Open Project
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 With default settings, DMap processing is broken into three big steps:
-  - Computation: the entire stack is processed to generate a draft quality depth map by analyzing local image features.
+  - Computation: the entire stack is processed to generate a draft quality depth map by analyzing local image features. \\ \\
+  - Human judgment: the user interactively sets a “contrast threshold” that separates significant detail from irrelevant noise.  This is accomplished by using a slider that provides immediate visual feedback.  Areas that should be treated as irrelevant noise are shown as black during this step. \\ \\
-  - Human judgment: the user interactively sets a “contrast threshold” that separates significant detail from irrelevant noise.  This is accomplished by using a slider that provides immediate visual feedback.  Areas that should be treated as irrelevant noise are shown as black during this step.
   - Computation: the depth map is refined based on the contrast threshold, and from that map, the final image is constructed.
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 Saving a “project” in Zerene Stacker lets you leave the program, then quickly get back in and resume working where you left off.  A project contains links to the input images, values of alignment and brightness adjustments for each input image, copies of the output images stored in a proprietary lossless format suitable for subsequent processing, and most of the Options > Preferences settings that were in effect at the time the project was saved.
-Many people never use File > Save Project.  If you're sure that you have an image completed to the point where you're done using Zerene Stacker, then you can just File > Save Output Image to create a TIFF or JPEG file, and all the other information will be thrown away when you exit the program.
+Many people never save projects.  If you're sure that you have an image completed to the point where you're done using Zerene Stacker, then you can just File > Save Output Image to create a TIFF or JPEG file, and all the other information will be thrown away when you exit the program.
 But if you think you might want to do some more retouching, then it's better to File > Save Project until you're sure that you really are done.  Some people retain their projects forever; other people delete them at some point to save disk space.
-In the computer’s file system, each Zerene Stacker project consists of a folder containing a ".zsj" file and several subfolders.  The .zsj file is the master description for the project.  You can look inside it with any text editor.  Typical subfolders include "generatedimages", which contains output images in ".zsy" format; "previewimages", which contains cached screen preview images as low quality ".jpg"; "AdjustedSourceImages" if Save Adjusted Images has been used; and so on.
+To re-load the project, use File > Open Project.  If the project shows as an ordinary folder, then navigate inside the folder, select the file that has extension ".zsj", and open that.
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