Photo Stacking Affinity Photo



ON1 Photo RAW 2021 - Professional photo organizer and raw processor; Affinity Photos - HDR merge; CombineZP - Excellent tool for macro shots; PICOLAY - Can edit GIF images; With the best focus stacking software in your arsenal, you can get more control over your images. Learning this technique is very rewarding. One advantage to Affinity Photo compared to existing astrophotography stacking and calibration applications is that it takes advantage of the GPU in your Mac for very fast processing and stacking. I calibrated and stacked a set of 12 images in about 1-2 minutes on my iMac Pro. This compares to about 10 minutes in APP and PixInsight. Faster, smoother and more powerful than ever, Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries of professional photo editing software. With a huge toolset specifically engineered for creative and photography professionals, it has everything you need to edit and retouch images, create full-blown, multi-layered compositions or beautiful raster paintings, and so much more.

Affinity Photo Stacking Software

Faster, smoother and more powerful than ever, Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries of professional photo editing software. With a huge toolset specifically engineered for creative and photography professionals, it has everything you need to edit and retouch images, create full-blown, multi-layered compositions or beautiful raster paintings, and so much more.

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I have been trying out the Beta version of Affinity Photo for Windows. So far for general-purpose editing it looks good. One thing that it does not do is to acquire an image from a scanner. In the Help files it tells you how to do this, but the menu item to acquire is missing. I would guess that this was there in the Apple version, but not yet implemented in the Windows version.
I noted that this offers Focus Stacking (or Focus Merge as it calls it). I created a number of stacks of 4-7 images of spindle tree fruits and of a fossil whelk to try this out. It works - and works well - but it takes ages! The resulting image is good, comparable with the PMax output from Zerene Stacker. In Affinity the stacking and Merging took 10 minutes for six images! Zerene took 2-3 minutes to produce both the PMax and Dmap images. Here is the output from Affinity:

This is the un-retouched output, just resized for the web. It is virtually indistinguishable from the Zerene Pmax. Affinity does offer output retouching if necessary, but this image did not need any. If you wanted to stack without Zerene or Helicon (or Photoshop), then this works well if you can wait.
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I have just downloaded the updated version, and the stacking time is now much better. The six-image stack above took 90 seconds!
John

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Stacking a sequence of photos of the same scene offers incredible opportunities, such as simulating long exposures, automatic people removal, the creation of star trails, and more!

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