![]() I think nowadays folks use Sequater and/or Deep Sky Stacker for this? At least one of the bunch should be free. I think I once used Hugin to stack some images of the night sky, I tried to stay close to a tutorial and that's what they used there. It offers several methods and I can just let it run all of them and choose the picture I like best out of all the results. When I want to create a focus stack, I'll use the free and older CombineZP. It took me a while to get used to the possibilities and how to work with them through the GUI, which can be very overwhelming at first if you have no idea what all those symbols mean, but now I think I can make most of what I want to do work, not very fast and not in the best way and not for perfect results, but with enough time I can get it good enough for my demands, mostly just by working with several layers, adding layer masks, editing those with a brush, and then resizing, moving and rotating the elements. I usually don't edit my own photos with it, but when I want to make a photo montage ("to photoshop something"), I'll put the input images into the free GIMP. Those freebies above were what made me consider buying the current version of DxO PhotoLab in the Elite edition (for the Dehaze filter "ClearView", but especially for the PRIME denoise algorithm, and the U-Point technology to make localized adjustments comes in handy as well), when it was sold at a great discount, and I added in ViewPoint as well to get easier perspective correction.ĭepending on the pictures and my mood, I'll perhaps put them through one of the NIK Collection plugins, say for converting to black and white, or adding a colour filter. I added the NIK Collection when it was offered by Google for free (the current version is sold by DxO now). ![]() I think I upgraded DxO Optics at least once to version 10 and/or 11, which was also offered for free at one time. I had tried RawTherapee and Darktable for a very short time, but - at the time and with my personal abilities and demands at the time - found them not to be very intuitive. I switched to DxO Optics when, I think it was version 9 in the base edition, was offered for free. Back when I hadn't had a Pentax camera yet, only a little Nikon 1 V1, I used Nikon ViewNX, which was packaged with the camera for free, to convert RAWs.
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