| 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 and optical microscope image processing 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.
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First plane |
Last plane |
Combined image |
| Optical microscope,
100x magnification,
15 images |
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| Digital camera,
DOF: 2cm-3m,
24 images |
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Helicon Focus Lite (basic version):
- Automatically adjusts and resizes images (important for stereomicroscopes and macrophotography)
- Uses all available processors (1.7 times faster with 2 processors, 2.3 times faster with 4 processors)
- Preserves details by using advanced interpolators for image manipulation (Lanczos, Sinc256)
- Internal workflow always uses 16 bit color depth to preserve colors
- Processes an unlimited number of images in the stack
- 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
- Adds text and scale bar
- Provides command line interface to call it from other applications
Helicon Focus Pro (advanced version):
- Includes all the features of the Lite version
- Helicon Remote utility to automate focus bracketing
- Retouching brush to clone from aligned source images to the resulting image (cannot be performed with external photo editor)
- Export of 3D model to Helicon 3D Viewer (included into Helicon Focus installation)
- Batch mode to process multiple image stacks or the same stack with different parameters
- 2D micropanorama
- Export of animated stacks (see sample)
Helicon Focus X64 (premium version):
Helicon Focus Pro X64 uses Helicon Processing Server to overcome 3Gb address space limitation for 32 bit applications. Using this technique Helicon Focus is able to get additional 3Gb of the address space on 32 bit OS and all available RAM on 64 bit OS.
- Includes all the features of the Lite and Pro versions
- 32 bit OS: additional 3Gb to process big images
- 64 bit OS: higher performace + access to all available RAM
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