Focus Stacking in Photoshop CS5

A tutorial showing you how to stack images together to increase depth of field. You can try it for yourself by going to www.russorr.co.uk and clicking on "Techniques". Keep your eye open for more tutorials and practise shots coming soon.

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Education

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• Photoshop
• tutotial
• nature
• wildlife
• manipulation
• CS5
• CS4

[u2be160]

Thank you for the tutorial!

[EastMidlandSpeakers]

Thank you for the video, which was very helpful. Couldn't find any reference to the technique on your website. Are the photos that you use jpg or raw?

[bcteo]

thanks~ 

[JarheadJoy]

THanks for the help. =)

[devonmale69]

Not sure why you opened them and then stacked them and blended after what a wast of memory and time. You can do all this in one go and have all your memory to do it in as well if you select the images in bridge and then photomerge them job done.

[gav76uk]

Thanks great tutorial.

[BrandedChannels]

@marshamk As you focus the lens inside the barrel travels a bit back or forth. This is known as a focus shift.

[BanjoJr]

I get the same as another poster just each image in one screen one above the other...any ideas how to stop this happening, works OK in Picolay...would like to get PS 5 working though..

[rachelanne6791]

This works fantastically. Occasionally my shots won't align right, but I believe it's because of shifts in camera position or too much difference in exposures. Thanks so much for this tutorial!

[marshamk]

russell- cool video. question though. im relatively new to SLR photography but im decently skilled with CS5. you mentioned that certain lenses change the perspective when focused...do specialized macro lenses keep the perspective the same?

on my basic 18-55mm kit lens, there is a slight change in the perspective...it is slight in the viewfinder but im sure that once transferred to the computer, the changes would be fairly appreciable.

Thanks!