I have recently upgraded to PhotoLab 8, and find it disappointing that focus and exposure stacking are still not part of the toolbox. They are incredibly useful tools.
I know this question has been answered before, but not in several years.
What other applications are PhotoLab 8 users going to when they desire to use focus or exposure stacking? How good is the integration into the PhotoLab 8 workflow?
Thanks!
I use Affinity Photo for HDR (exposure) and focus stacking, and sometimes Helicon Focus for more complex focus stacks.
PhotoLab is a raw processor. I process my set of raw stacks in PhotoLab and export as tif files to an aptly named folder. I pick them up from there in either Affinity Photo or Helicon. Easy breezy.
every year there’s someone asking to get stacking within PL.
like Bob said, PL is raw editor (Lr without Ps), for anything else… you’ll need other software like AP, helicon software, PTGui, Nik Collection and/or whatever else you need.
I don’t see any reason that folks can’t ask for features like this in PL.
Having said that, I wouldn’t want them to sacrifice limited resources to develop such things at the expense of fixing bugs, making the tools for the raw development and processing more robust, etc.
Tom
i know, but dxo doesn’t go anyway others went.
many if not most software added “layers” which would be nice to have (specially since they aquired Nik Collection), focus stacking is more of a niche and take a while to get it right so imo i’m fine dxo don’t get that into PL, HDR on the other hand is quit old and not sure why it never made it’s way in.
on the other hand, i’m happy they made pureraw, which is kind of get away from PL and use all other software you need to get what you want done. mostly for people that don’t rely on 1 software do it all kind of thing.