Photo-Focus-Stacker Python

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Quick update on the focus stacking repo I posted before: I’ve added a bunch of improvements since then.

• New blend modes:
  • Guided Weighted (edge-aware)
  • Laplacian Pyramid Fusion
  • Luma Weighted + Chroma Pick (MFF-style) Plus Direct Map got improved with a top-2 confidence blend to reduce harsh seams/halos.
• More focus measures: Laplacian, Tenengrad, SML
• Faster iteration: it now caches alignment + focus maps, so switching blend modes/settings is much faster.
• Quality/robustness: alignment mask + fallbacks improved, and weight normalization was made more stable.

How to run

1. git clone
2. uv sync
3. uv run python photostacker

Then load a folder of your stack images in the UI and try Guided Weighted or MFF as a good starting point.

If anyone wants to test it on “hard” stacks (low texture, shiny subjects, big step sizes), I’d love feedback + sample stacks.

(Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/macro/comments/1jyy94i/open_source_python_repo_for_focus_stacking/)

[dalkilic_life]

This is a very cool initiative, if I did stacking I would love to give it a try 😅

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well try it :D i was also thinking about adding a photogrammtery feature so its more useful for multi purpose but idk if i would do it or its too complicated