Stacking Photos
 

Managed to do some photo stacking on the camera the other night after a little bit of technical instruction. That appears to be the easy part. After uploading the images to the computer, it appears that elements 8 is not set up for stacking. Please can you advise me on how to do this on Elements, if possible or the software I need for this.

I know Photoshop CS has had focus stacking in recent versions, don't know if Elements has, but PSE8 is too old to have had it. You could try [URL="http://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconfocus.html"]Helicon Focus[/URL] or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking"]look at Wikipedia[/URL] for other options.

Chris

Thanks Chris, thought as much. Looks like I'll have to go shopping or put the stacking on hold.
Martin

Found the software after a quick Google.
StarStaX. A free software, donations can be made via Paypal.
Great bit of kit.
Star trails here we come.

Martin

Until Photoshop CS included photo stacking I always used CombineZM. It's free and very good.

Harry

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Here's another freebee. DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers. Plus a tutorial.

[URL="http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html"]http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html[/URL]


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