HeliconFocus is a program that creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas.The program is designed for macrophotography, microphotography and hyperfocal landscape photography to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem.
Helicon Focus also aligns images as objects often change their size and position from shot to shot. This function is especially important for macrophotography.
Helicon Focus Lite (basic version):
• automatically adjusts and resizes images (important for stereomicroscopes and macrophotography);
• processes an unlimited number of images in the stack;
• has no limitation on image resolutions (you need at least 512M RAM to work with 8Mp+ images);
• supports "dust map" to automatically remove black points from the resulting images;
• automatically adjusts brightness of the adjacent images;
• reads RAW, 8bit and 16bit TIFFs, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, etc;
• writes 8bit and 16bit TIFFs, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP.
• add text and scale bar (v.4.0+)
Helicon Focus Pro (advanced version):
• retouching brush to clone from aligned source images to the resulting image (cannot be performed with external photo editor, v.4.0+)
• batch mode to process multiple image stacks or the same stack with different parameters
Software Program suggested by Rick Stetina. |
