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| ====== Using Stack Selected to Retouch Transparent Foreground ====== | ====== Using Stack Selected to Retouch Transparent Foreground ====== | ||
| - | "Transparent foreground" is a common artifact that occurs because wide aperture lenses will "look around" opaque parts of your subject to see sharp details in the background behind them. This tutorial shows how to fix the problem relatively quickly and painlesslt by using retouching in combination with Stack Selected. | + | "Transparent foreground" is a common artifact that occurs because wide aperture lenses will "look around" opaque parts of your subject to see sharp details in the background behind them. This tutorial shows how to fix the problem relatively quickly and painlessly by using retouching in combination with Stack Selected. |
| This crop from the face of a small ant illustrates the problem. | This crop from the face of a small ant illustrates the problem. | ||
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| Here's how the process goes... | Here's how the process goes... | ||
| - | First we process the entire stack using Stack > Align & Stack All (PMax). Looking closely at the first result reveals the problem, as shown above. | + | First we process the entire stack using Stack > Align & Stack All (PMax). Looking closely at the result reveals the problem, as shown above. |
| Then we study the source images to figure out which ones have just the foreground in focus. In this case, those are IMG_7129 through IMG_7147. | Then we study the source images to figure out which ones have just the foreground in focus. In this case, those are IMG_7129 through IMG_7147. | ||