How to Focus Stack in Photoshop // Tutorial
2021 ж. 20 Ақп.
130 502 Рет қаралды
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Focus stacking should be one of the first things you learn in photoshop. Why? Because its one of the few things that cannot be done in camera and has a dramatic effect on the image quality of your images.
PERFECT video for anyone just wanting to bust this out and make it happen. The juice sprays right at 4:13 if anyone just want to dive right in. Thanks Nick!
Short, concise and incredibly useful. Thanks Nick!
This was a HUGE help Nick. I love your teaching style. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you, Nick. You've made the photo stacking process so easy. I really appreciate it.
Love this video. What a great tutorial. Thanks Nick!
Nick, You are gifted teacher who can present information in a clear and concise way for people to learn easily. I miss your tutorials and hope all is well. John
As usual Nick your videos are easy to follow with great tips. Good job.
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
This is super helpful, Nick. Thanks so much for doing this. Seen a few other videos on it but yours is the simplest yet most detailed. Thank you.
Very informative video, Nick! You are easy to follow and it makes sense!
Great video again Nick. East to understand and well explained. Top man.
Great video Nick! You make it sound so easy.
Great video, very informative and appreciate hearing about the Great Courses. Thank you for doing these videos, they are so helpful and I learn so much.
Excellent tutorial Nick, very impressed with all your videos. Many thanks.
Thank you! A great tutorial and one of the best and most comprehensive I have seen on the subject.
Outstanding pace and detail! Thank you. Now, I need a good complete course on Photoshop.
I was literally just focus stacking some photos of the snow in Texas from this past week. Perfect timing for me! Thanks for another great video.
Thanks for an absolutely brilliant guide to Focus Stacking. Wonderful stuff.
Thank you for sharing, showing, and explaining this simple and easy process!!
Fantastic video! I’ve always found this confusing and could never really get it right. Your step by step directions and tip to make copies prior to running the process in Photoshop was a huge help. Thank you for teaching us how it’s done!
Good tip about copying images into a group. Too often I get a blob or smear when I auto blend.
Thank you so much for sharing Nick. Perfect simple explanation! Focus stacking here I come.
You really made it easy to understand, well done and thank you for the tuturial Nick!
This is by far the best, most comprehensive, and simplest tutorial of the countless focus stacking videos out there. Bless you.
Nick its great to see you back in the education saddle. Enjoyed this tutorial its simple, attainable, repeatable, and effective. Your winter camp vlog was timely as I had just returned home from my winter camp. Purpose was to camp, ski, and take photos. Winter had a different objective as the temperature dropped into the -30C area and the winds picked up into the 50-70 kph range. Had a blast keeping the fire going in my tent, but didn't take many photos. Your camping Vlog and now focus stacking renewed my ideas to head back to Abraham Lake and make more images. Thanks Nick. Howard Koch
Great tutorial Nick. Thanks.. keep 'em comin'
Thank you for sharing this Nick. It will really help me going forward.
Excellent job Nick, thanks a lot.
Just wanted to say thanks for this. I've been putting PS off for a long time, and recently got into doing more landscape stuff. I learned about you and your channel after I got the F4 Roadtrip package (originally started watching Tom, then Gavin), and this was one of the suggested videos for me from your channel. Focus stacking was one of those things on the short list of things I wanted to learn, and your video was great. I now see everyone that's doing landscape has a focus stacking tutorial video lol, but you helped me, so I just wanted to say thank you.
I'm so excited to try this, thanks for sharing! I guess my question then becomes when to focus stack and when not to, sounds like it may be more of a artistic decision. I find I've often been a bit intimidated on getting more into photoshop but working on that being a high priority this year to really improve my images. I hate it too when taking pretty high f-stop images getting those nasty dust spots, so this sounds like a better option when I can.
Your videos have been invaluable for my reintroduction into landscape photography and editing. Picked up a wacom (where's it been all my life!?) and started applying more advanced luminosity masks adjustments and dodging/burning techniques. Now I'm taking focus stacking to the field. My confidence post-shoot has been roaring lately and the time in the digital darkroom is so enjoyable. Keep up the great work!
Sweet segue and relatable explanation of your sponsorship. Those e-books are great for road trips!
Nick - many thanks - great tutorial
I was going through your Essential Photoshop practice files where we go through focus stacking and then this video showed up. Both are very well done. Thanks!
Excellent presentation!
I love focus stacking nick. Loved this video as it will just help others. Thanks for sharing.
Bro, english is not my first language and you speak so easy to understand. I loved this tutorial, you ROCK!
Ben Horne has become the “reference” for everyone and everything!!! Ha, loved it!!!
You make this very easy to digest... thank you for another awesome video!
Thank you for another wonderful video!
Thank you so much!! I’ve been frightened to even try you made this look so easy I’m willing to try now!
Brilliantly articulated. Many thanks
THANK YOU! Nice Simple to the point + EXCELLENT AUDIO!
Fantastic. I had no idea about auto-blend. Game-changer!
I always learn something new ... thank you. Today, I learned about using the folders in Photoshop. I love using Nikon’s touch screen shutter release for landscape photo stacking and their “focus shift shooting” mode for automated shooting when doing macro photography. The toolkit is always improving!
Got this notification right as I was looking up how to focus stack. Thanks Nick!
Great snappy tutorial again Nick..👍🏻 Great delivery! And to top it, I’m a history (early British) nerd too..Result!
Great information and so well-explained. Thanks for sharing!
thanks so much Nick for publishing this on Focus Stacking! It is such an needed remedy for so many contrasting frames, albeit all frames!
You answered a key question for me in regards to why a certain number of images go into any given focus stack. Many thanks for taking the time to put this info together. Top shelf as always 🤘
Hey man. Thanks again for the advice on my photo that I shared on your fb page. I totally knew where I had went wrong but I needed to here it from someone who’s work I admire and respect artistically.
Great tutorial! Finally got it!
Such a great video, and such a powerful process for creating amazing images! Thank you!
Hi Nick: I just discovered your teaching videos on photo stacking. Thanks for making it clear and understandable for us Photoshop newbies. I have listened to hundreds of KZhead videos and your's is one of the best.
Thanks Nick.............this really HELPED
I just wanted to say a quick thank you. This video helped me so much and I've finally managed to compose my first focus stacked image. I am so stoked right now! Thanks again!
Thank you for your help Nick ..excellent..x
Thanks Nick. You make it easy!
This is perfect, thanks Nick!!
Got to say Nick you explain things so well - really easy to follow - defo saved this vlog to my favs for future reference...
Wow! Amazing video and instruction. My first try was very good! TY
That's a bloody awesome video, presented with great articulation. Many thanks!
Excelent tutorial. I shall certainly watch more.
Thank you Nick, I ran into Ben out at Death Valley last weekend with him doing one of his shots with his 8X10 and seeing and being a fan of his and yours, I decided for this trip to set up more of my shots for processing with Focus stacking, this video came at teh perfect time and plan to later today start the process of focus stackin in order to get my shot from Dante and Badwater so much better. Thank you and Ben is one hell of a nice guy and true master on his Large Format. Thanks again
Thanks Nick, I now know what I was doing wrong when stacking and stitching. Very well explained.
Well done, Nick. Thank you.....you made it simple/
Thanks Nick! This is unlike I've ever seen before and such a simple way to focus stack. I can't wait till the day that all of this will just happen right in camera. im sure its coming sooner then later.
This tutorial is superb, now I'm focus stacking like a pro. Thanks Nick.
Thanks Nick - the fog has lifted for this Grandma! I will now give this a go as previously I was in a state of muddle but after watching this I think I can do it!
The best stacking info online-thanks Nick
Nice one matey, really well put together. Very easy to follow if you hadn’t don’t it before
Fantastic video!! I have watched a few new trying to learn how to do this and yours was by far the easiest to follow. I've subscribed and Im off to watch more from you. Thank you!
First time i tried to focus stack was today...got lost watching other videos and yours nailed it! I appreciate the help! Great photos by the way!
Absolutely love your calm, detailed tutorial, thank you. Great Courses look interesting too.:-)
Great content man, you broke it down really simple and once I get off work tonight I shall try it out.
Great video. Never considered photo stacking before, looking forward to trying it out.
Perfect thank you Nick.
Great Video. Very Informative. Thanks!!
Thanks, Nick! You made it look so easy (and it is). I am looking forward for this Covid period to be over with so that I can sign up for a workshop. Have a great week!
Would love to have you along!
I have 2 photo buddies that might tag along, so I’ll have to coordinate.
So thank you for this and for all you do Nick. Been digging your videos and process for years. Especially your style of a lot of atmospheric audio and 'setting the scene' for the beginning of videos, I often forget that you haven't even said a word for minutes at a time. Engaging stuff. Anyway, I seem to have decent success with stacking when there aren't too many complicated/busy layers, but sometimes it just doesn't seem to go right. I was recently shooting some tree trunks popping out of manzanita bushes in Bend, Oregon and at the edges of the first layer (foreground) where it meets the second layer (mid), there is an obvious 4 or 5 pixel border where it used the out of focus mid layer, from my foreground image, instead. It also didn't fill in some of the spaces between the manzanita leaves with the focused mid-layer, so there's blur between those leaves as well. Is that simply because I didn't have enough images to stack? I had 3 images (foreground, mid, background). I was using a Sony 24-70, about 18" or so from the front of my foreground. I'm not experienced enough to mess with the layer masks to try to fix it, but figured in case you needed an idea for another quarantine-studio-video, maybe you had some ideas on how to fine tune those types of edits if it's even at all possible. I'm happy to send you the files if that helps. (P.S. The Great Courses Plus is a goldmine!!! I shoot a lot of my jobs on my own, so I'm a podcast/audiobook sponge also, so thank you for that!!)
So helpful. Thank you!!
Well explained, well presented. Great video. Just have to go take a few photos .
Thank you for this video! This is exactly what I needed to learn.
Best video that I have seen about focus stacking! This is must-see post.
I appreciate that thank you
Thanks for the great easy to understand explanation
What a fine video that breaks down each stone i this complicated task.
An excellent tip for focusing on landscape pictures. I use Lightroom for 95% of my editing and hardly use Photoshop because of the layer feature which I find to be too tedious. I occasionally use Photoshop Elements for fine-tuning cloning and such. This method makes it relatively easy to do this and get great results in Photoshop without the steep learning curve. Very useful tip.
You're awesome! this video helps me so much! thank you for sharing!
Wow! I followed along with you to make my first focus stack. Knocked my socks off! Thanks!
Been focus stacking using Photoshop for years so assumed I had it nailed. Then you threw in the tip about duplicating the layers as a back-up. Boom! I never thought of that. Thank you Nick. A valuable lesson.
can't wait to try it great video
Thank you sir, you convinced me to use stacking for landscapes.
Great tutorial. I like they idea of putting the images in a separate file if the blend goes wrong, unfortunately it went okay. I would love to see a video/tutorial on how you would correct it with your copied folder if it did go wrong.
Thanks again for these videos and some short cuts.
Thank you this was so helpful! Now I'm not so scared to try it!
Thank you for making it easy!!!
So simple, thank you for showing this
Thank you Nick! I think this knowledge will make the biggest difference in my photos.
Great video!! Thank you!
Thanks Nick for this very clear explanation. As you say, “why wouldn’t you do it!”. 👍