Artifacts, banding, bizarre looking stacks
Posted: 16.05.2017 22:38
I looked in here and found several topics on people getting less-than-optimal outputs from Helicon Focus. Some of my stacks are ok, others dreadful. I've never really understood how to set up Method B radius and smoothing settings - I've tried a lot of different ones, but I'm not getting exactly what changing each value is doing. When possible I use method C. Then try to fix the banding and whatever is blatantly wrong in Photoshop.
That workflow seems inefficient, so I'm trying to get better stacks in Helicon Focus.
I recently created a small stack in Helicon Remote - 12 images, in jpeg, so it's not complex. I stacked it repeatedly in HF with Method B, getting poor results. I then stacked it using Method C, and get the same kind of edge issues and banding I normally see.
I"ve uploaded the 12 jpegs - downscanned from the original 7360x4912 to 1840 on the long side so they're 25% of the originals. I also uploaded the five outputs I got - 4 with Method B and 1 with Method C... They're in "dkperez test".
Hopefully you can give me some advice on how to get rid of the ghosts and/or artifacts and/or banding I'm seeing in Method C, or better, how to get Method B to give me better stacks...
That workflow seems inefficient, so I'm trying to get better stacks in Helicon Focus.
I recently created a small stack in Helicon Remote - 12 images, in jpeg, so it's not complex. I stacked it repeatedly in HF with Method B, getting poor results. I then stacked it using Method C, and get the same kind of edge issues and banding I normally see.
I"ve uploaded the 12 jpegs - downscanned from the original 7360x4912 to 1840 on the long side so they're 25% of the originals. I also uploaded the five outputs I got - 4 with Method B and 1 with Method C... They're in "dkperez test".
Hopefully you can give me some advice on how to get rid of the ghosts and/or artifacts and/or banding I'm seeing in Method C, or better, how to get Method B to give me better stacks...