![]() Left picture without dust map, right picture with dust map. Here I used the original grey card with dust spots and hot pixels as dust map. Helicon Focus have an interesting and useful function that lets you set a dust map picture. Retouching in Zerne Stacker Retouching in Helicon Focus Advantage Helicon Focus – set dust map The videos below show how to do this, first with Zerene Stacker then with Helicon Focus 7. These artefacts can be retouched using apicture from PMax or Helicon Focus method C. Not using PMax or Helicon Focus method C tends to give pictures with less noise and better colours but with a lot of stacking artefacts near edges. I have tried many different softwares for photo stacking over the years and not a single one even comes close to Helicon. Retouching spot in Zerene Stacker Retouching spot in Helicon Focus Retouching from one method’s output to another They are both full-featured focus stacking software suites, and on the surface seem to offer almost identical features and promise comparable results. The videos just show removing a single bad pixel. Zerene and Helicon or more correctly, Zerene Stacker and Helicon Focus, have become two iconic names in today’s macro photography world, and both are as synonymous with focus stacking as Stackshot and Mitutoyo. In the videos below I show how to retouch from one of the photos in the stack to the final picture. ![]() Helicon Focus non pro version ships with the dust map possibilities but you need the pro version for retouching in Helicon Focus. At this date – autumn 2019 – Zerene Stacker non pro version ships with basic retouching functions. Note: Zerene Stackers non pro version ships with the basic retouching functionsīoth Zerene Stacker and Helicon Focus can be bought as a pro version and a smaller and less expensive version. Both Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker have their own retouching abilities. If you do not want to handle the spots in Lightroom or you find that Lightroom automatic handling of hot pixels missed some of them. This is the result using first Helicon Focus then Zerene Stacker – the problem is solved. When I am done with the grey card photo, I copy the settings to all the photos in the stack.
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