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Focus Stacking with Photoshop cs6 "Click" to Login or Register 
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Picture of William D. White
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Macro lenses have a very shallow depth of field making it impossible to get every part of a watch movement in focus when doing very close photography.
With Photoshop you can take several images, each one gradually focused until the entire range of the subject has been covered, then blend them together automatically to one composite image where everything's in focus! It's pretty cool!

Here is a single image taken normally. Notice that only the balance rim and screws are in clear focus.

 
Posts: 1568 | Location: San Francisco, California USA | Registered: September 01, 2008
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Picture of William D. White
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This image is a composite stacked from 7 different images. Notice that now every component, from top to bottom, is in clear focus.

 
Posts: 1568 | Location: San Francisco, California USA | Registered: September 01, 2008
Picture of Dave Turner
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Nice job William.


Dave Turner
 
Posts: 1979 | Location: Wilson, North Carolina in the USA | Registered: November 15, 2011
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Picture of Lorne Wasylishen
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Very nice William, an almost revolutionary feature for our hobby.
 
Posts: 2093 | Location: British Columbia in Canada | Registered: March 02, 2011
<James V. Delgado>
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Very cool. Long time collector but just starting to photograph my collection seriously. What Adobe Photoshop suite should I buy?
 
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