Artifacts in rendering in Helicon Focus V6

[Jeff Thompson]

I have a stack of 10 images that renders correctly in V5.3 but renders with artifacts in V6. Is this a known bug?

Jeff

[Jeff Thompson]

I've done a few more tests. This is a bit wordy so bear with me:
*** First test ***
Start Helicon Focus V6
Select the 10 images (drag and drop from windows explorer)
Set Method=A, R=8, S=4
Render – image saved as 2014-02-22_16-16-10 M=A R=8 S=4.jpg
Image is perfect.
Set Method=B, R=8, S=4
Render – image saved as 2014-02-22_16-16-53 M=B R=8 S=4.jpg
Image contains artifacts. This is the worst image of these tests.

*** Second test ***
Start Helicon Focus V6
Select the 10 images (drag and drop from windows explorer)
Let it default to Method=B, R=8, S=4
Render – 2014-02-23_11-47-56 M=B R=8 S=4.jpg
The rendered image is perfect. This turns out to be inconsistent – see next test.

*** Third test ***
Start Helicon Focus V6
Select the 10 images (drag and drop from windows explorer)
Let it default to Method=B, R=8, S=4
Render – image saved as 2014-02-23_12-07-58 M=B R=8 S=4.jpg
The rendered image has small artifacts.
Remove all images from the input stack
Select the same 10 images again (drag and drop from windows explorer)
Leave the method unchanged M=B R=8 S=4
Render – image saved as 2014-02-23_12_11_52 M=B R=8 S=4.jpg
The image has larger artifacts.
Any ideas?

jeff

[Stas Yatsenko]

Thanks for the report, we have never seen such a bug. Please upload this stack to our server (as described at http://www.heliconsoft.com/ftp-server/), we will try to reproduce it.

And please send the resulting images too, the artefacts will helps us to locate the bug.

[Jeff Thompson]

I Uploaded the 10 individual images and two renders - one good, one bad - to a folder with my name. They are large jpegs - about 7 Mb each. I haven't tested it with smaller ones yet.

[Jeff Thompson]

Forgot to mention: I'm running Windows 7 on an Intel Core I5 (quad core).

jeff

[Stas Yatsenko]

Thanks for the stack. There is definitely a bug but we can't reproduce it. Could you please get bad result again and then save it as project (menu/File/Save project file...). Then zip the appropriate folder and send it to us. This way we will find what went wrong.

[Jeff Thompson]

I sent it, it's in my folder. I hope I did it right. I've never used a project file.

[Stas Yatsenko]

Thanks, we are trying to locate the bug.

[Stas Yatsenko]

Thanks, your project file helped us to locate the bug. The source images were not sorted as they should be and that caused artifacts. We fixed this bug and are preparing new version. To avoid this situation in the current version please add all source images at once.