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Zerene Stacker Tutorials

The following tutorials are roughly in order of complexity, starting with basic stacking and progressing through more advanced topics:

Designed to be read:

  • How To Use DMap, covering how to adjust the slider and other controls for this method

Designed to be watched (presented as video, with written transcripts also available):

  • Introduction to Retouching. Basic techniques, combining the best parts of multiple images of the fruit fly face. This tutorial is a quick way to learn efficient methods of navigating in a deep stack and retouching to combine the best parts of PMax, DMap, and individual source images.
  • Advanced Retouching. How to get the best results from a more challenging stack of floral photography: close-up honeysuckle blossoms, shot in the wild and moving in a slight breeze. This tutorial addresses more advanced techniques such as how to play through the stack like a filmstrip, and how to adjust DMap parameters to simplify retouching.

Designed to be read:

  • 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 quickly and easily by using retouching in combination with Stack Selected.
  • Using ControlMyNikon. ControlMyNikon is a inexpensive piece of 3rd party software that can automatically control your Nikon camera from a Windows computer to shoot a focus stack. This tutorial is a quick-start guide for new users of ControlMyNikon v2.9.
stacker/docs/tutorials/tutorialsindex.1339638980.txt.gz · Last modified: 2012/06/14 01:56 by rjlittlefield
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