Stack your photos with MacroFusion

[dhor]

Hi,

There's another new utility to combine your photos to get HDR or deeper DOF.

It's MacroFusion (version 0.7), a GUI for Enfuse/Hugin tools. Short video, how to use it: http://vimeo.com/32088731



To install it, use my PPA (ppa:dhor/myway), or by hand download package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/macrofusion.

To make MacroFusion works, you need Enfuse version >=4.0. Lucid users can install that version from my PPA.

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

Any feedback, translations and tests are welcome!

[jcolyn]

Will this program work with KDE or just the Gnome desktop?

[prokoudine]

Will this program work with KDE or just the Gnome desktop?

Anywhere. You only need GTK+ and its Python bindings. And, of course, enblend/enfuse.

[jcolyn]

Thanks

I'll have to give it a try....

[nilarimogard]

Unfortunately it doesn't work... When I try to add some images, I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 405, in ajout
    FenOuv=Fenetre_Ouvrir(self.liststoreimport,1)
  File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 647, in __init__
    self.tags2+=(_("<b>Aperture:</b> F/") + str(float(float(self.tags['FNumber'][0])/float(self.tags['FNumber'][1]))) + "\n")
KeyError: 'FNumber'

[dhor]

Unfortunately it doesn't work... When I try to add some images, I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 405, in ajout
    FenOuv=Fenetre_Ouvrir(self.liststoreimport,1)
  File "/usr/bin/macrofusion", line 647, in __init__
    self.tags2+=(_("<b>Aperture:</b> F/") + str(float(float(self.tags['FNumber'][0])/float(self.tags['FNumber'][1]))) + "\n")
KeyError: 'FNumber'

Hmm, exif stuff... Fix on the way

[r_mano]

Hi, I am trying to use MacroFusion but I am unable to make it work. It seems that the focus breathing correction is not working --- the preview seems aligned but the final foto does not work (It's a blurry mix of the original photos).
The three fotos are macro of pencils, each one focused on the named color:

http://www.rgtti.com/focusstack/F1yellow.jpg
http://www.rgtti.com/focusstack/F2blue.jpg
http://www.rgtti.com/focusstack/F3orange.jpg

I am using ubuntu 12.10, with the dhor/myway PPA enabled. The outout is completely messed up:

http://www.rgtti.com/focusstack/output.jpg

Hoping that with these shot someone more expert than me can see what's happening...
Thanks anyway,
Romano

PS by the way, the generated jpg could not be opened by the gnome image viewer, it says "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Suspension not allowed here)". GIMP opens it well.

[kurja]

Hi,

I can't see your images (firewall issues) but do you have overlapping in-focus areas with just three images? Afaik they won't get properly aligned otherwise, have you tried with images where focus is altered only very slightly between each frame, so they overlap?

[r_mano]

Hi,

I can't see your images (firewall issues) but do you have overlapping in-focus areas with just three images? Afaik they won't get properly aligned otherwise, have you tried with images where focus is altered only very slightly between each frame, so they overlap?

I will try to make the image visible to all: try http://www.rgtti.com/focusstack/imgs.html

I think that the main problem is that there is a LOT of focus breathing, and the align_image_stack step got the alignement completely wrong. I will try with another set of images...

PS I tried CombineZP on windows, and although the result is not perfect (the orange pencil comes out a bit transparent), overall the image is much better. Maybe there is a way to trim parameters of align_image_stack to have a better alignement...

[robert shearer]

You need more intermediate images. Three, using those spacings is not enough.
Focus stacking needs overlap, it is not for taking several disparately focused images and expecting there to be massive interpolation between each image.
Many photographers will use 20-70 images to stack for something as simple as a fly so your three pencils Imho are way short of enough.