Stack your photos with MacroFusion

[gpsvn]

Thank you dhor, it works now.

I used MacroFusion for stacking focus (deeper DOF) but the result is quite blurry, I am not too sure what parameters, what options and how to configure the software to get sharp result.

I did try ALE, same result, ALE just take much longer time.

[rbslime]

Hello,

I'm getting this when trying to load 16bit tiff's (which I use for Luminance):

Will use all the powers of your CPU!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 406, in ajout
FenOuv=Fenetre_Ouvrir(self.liststoreimport,1)
File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 686, in __init__
Gui.put_files_to_the_list(self.fichiers)
File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 627, in put_files_to_the_list
im = Image.open(fichier)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1980, in open
raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
IOError: cannot identify image file


This may be a PIL problem? I'm new to Python errors, but googling doesn't return any clues.

That said, I'm still new to HDR's but I loaded some jpg's in to Macrofusion and the default output was by far better than what I could get out of Luminance! Excellent work!

[dhor]

Thanks all for tests and opinions.

I've uploaded to PPA new version 0.7.3. Well, it's rather cosmetic changes, but it seems, that finally Macrofusion is able to open 8/16bit TIFF. I hope, it'll work

[kurja]

Coming back to an old thread here.

I've switched to 12.04 beta, and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this combination. For focus stacking I'd need Hugin for alignment, Enfuse for stacking and then Macrofusion to get a gui, am I right? It seems I can get them all from Software center, without adding other repositories or anything. Will it work? Or should I just try and see? I'm asking beforehand, because I already ended up reinstalling once

edit - apparently Macrofusion can do alignment, as well. What else did I get wrong?

[anyusername]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and did all this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install macrofusion

and got this message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package macrofusion

What did I do wrong?

UPDATE: I found a .DEB file here, which works fine: http://sourceforge.net/projects/macr...ofusion-0.7.3/

[gpsvn]

Updated to Ubuntu 12.
Reinstalled MacroFusion,it works!!!!

Actually this is the first time is see it work.

Congratulations and thanks.

[kurja]

I have macrofusion installed in 12.04 and "it just works"

[kurja]

Yes "it just works" for hdr stacking, but now I'm trying to make a focus stack... I have ten pictures taken at about 4x magnification so depth of field is rather shallow, and the result is an evenly blurry picture that isn't remotely sharp at any point even as the individual pictures have good sharpness at the focus point. It's as if the pictures were fused entirely, and not using only the focused parts, which is the intended outcome. Can you offer any advice on this?

[kurja]

Checking the force hard mask option seems to help with the blurryness (judging by the preview), but either the computation time goes up like crazy or it hangs, I'm not sure - but after 18+ hours it seemed to be still working which seems a bit excessive?

Anyone here uses this for focus stacks? What's your experience and what settings do you use?

[dhor]

I'm not sure - but after 18+ hours it seemed to be still working which seems a bit excessive?

Anyone here uses this for focus stacks? What's your experience and what settings do you use?

18 hours is not right definitely. Your method is OK (hardmask, align, autocrop), but I've check what's wrong with hardmask.