Can I use HDRMerge for focus stacking?
anyone here already did it?
I don’t think that’s going to work. You can try GitHub - PetteriAimonen/focus-stack: Fast and easy focus stacking or GitHub - noah-peeters/ChimpStackr: free, multi-platform focus stacking software
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tks!!!
I am downloading and will try it. 
also, 'm very glad to find the community and exchange with you guys!!!
looking forward to enhance my knowledge and contribute !!!
cheers
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Welcome! Hope you find this place useful.
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I tried it on Linux, it just doesn’t work. The last version is from 2022.
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I’ve downloaded Chimp Stackr. a bit slow to get ready and open.
didn’t try yet, but as far as I read reviews in forums and YouTube, it seems quite powerful and delivers a very clean result. Also, you can always export TIFF or JPEG and enhance on Rawtherapee afterwards.
I could open it, I could start it - but then it crashed.
I also entered an issue on Github in june last year - no response.
On Linux they seem to have packaging problems, but last I saw it seemed to work on windows. It’d be awesome if the community could help them sort out their Linux issues 
I tried them both today on Linux, using 2 Mpx files exported from darktable, aligned using align_image_stack. Neither of them crashed.
From 20 files they both created a stacked image. image-stacker have results very similar to my previous attempt with enfuse (not so great). Chimp was much better.
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Thanks for the hint. Chimp Stackr worked perfectly!!!
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Which distribution do you use? (I’m curious)
I use Manjaro and, as I wrote already, ChimpStackr crashes.
I’m on Ubuntu 24.10. ChimpStacker does nothing (does not crash, but does not stack images, either) if Nvidia CUDA is installed, but works fine on the CPU.
I tested Chimpstacker under Mint 22.1, and it works well (AMD GPU integrated). On the other hand, it leaves a halo, a problem I already had with hugin.
I have installed ChimpStacker with AppImage
The photo is a 100% crop where I compare with ZereStacker.
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Then we must continue to improve chimpstackr. Zerene is known to be excellent, but is not FOSS, so.
“focus-stack” should be tested also
I agree, ZereneStacker isn’t FOSS, but when you’re exposing some of your stacked photos, you’re looking for the best tool to do it and, under Linux in my opinion, it’s Zerene.
As Gimp allows you to align layers, it should normally be possible to do stacking. I haven’t tested it yet, but if anyone knows which blending mode to use for stacking in the Gimp, I’d love to hear from you.
I haven’t tested Focus-Stack because it passes through the terminal and it’s not my thing.
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