Helicon Focus

Helicon Focus

Infobox Software
name = Helicon Focus



caption = Helicon Focus 4.40 Running on Windows XP
developer = Helicon Soft Ltd.
latest release version = 4.60 Beta Windows, 3.79 Mac
latest release date = September 24, 2008 Windows, Feb 25, 2008 Mac
operating_system = Mac OS X, Windows
genre = Digital image processing
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.heliconfocus.com/ www.heliconfocus.com]

Helicon Focus, or more simply Focus, is a proprietary commercial digital image processing tool, first released in 2003, developed and published by Helicon Soft Limited. Like programs such as CombineZM, Helicon Focus is designed to blend the focused areas of several partially focused digital photographs in order to increase the depth of field (DOF) possible in an image.

Overview

Helicon Focus can be used to increase DOF in any situation, though its primary uses are in macro photography, landscape photography and photo-microscopy. In macro photography, the DOF is often very small. In order to increase it, Helicon Focus is capable of merging several differently focused images together in order to create one image where the subject is entirely in focus. In landscape photography, where the entire frame is often preferred to be in focus (such as distant clouds and an object of interest in the foreground), Focus can be used to blend photos together in order to create a desired result.

Features

* Automatic adjustments during stacking
* "Dust map" for removing black points from the resulting images
* Supports most common file types, including RAW, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, and BMP
* Can add text and a scale bar
* 3D stack visualization
* (In Pro) Retouch brushes to manually brush in any focused (or unfocused) areas that weren't merged properly
* (In Pro) Create panoramas
* Create image stack animations
* Batch processing

Mac version

Helicon Focus for Mac OS X is version 3.79, released February 25, 2008. This version lacks the retouching and 3D visualization features found in Helicon Focus Pro for Windows.

ee also

*Helicon Filter
*Depth of field

External links

* [http://www.heliconfocus.com/ Helicon Focus Homepage]
* [http://helicon.com.ua/pages/ Helicon Soft Ltd.]
* [http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_72/essay.html Outback Photo review of Helicon Focus 3.00 and CombineZ5]


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