Focus Stacker App Reviews

Simple, works very well

I have Focus Bracket available in my Olympus EM1mark2 camera and wanted a simple way to stack without using PhotoShop or LightRoom. This does a fine job with great results-we need more apps like this for photographers. Works well with OS 14 Sonoma so far. Thanks for creating Focus Stacker!

Worth the money

Don't expect this to work as well as Photo Merge in Photoshop, but it is worth its modest cost, and stacks photos effortlessly. Great for enthusiests who are just having a photography adventure rather than trying to make a living with photography, and want to be able to focus stack photos without paying Adobe $10 a month.

Fantastic App

Simple and easy to use. Produces great results. Works better than the blend option in Photoshop that focus stacking tutorials suggest using.

Literally amazing.

This app is as amazing as it is simple. Affinity Photo 2 kept distorting all my results (and even dropping images) when I focus-merged images. Focus Stacker did the job faster and far more correctly. And I could use it without a manual.

Good entry level program

I'm just starting to play around with focus stacking and this program is almost perfect as it's very easy to use. Just as an FYI to others looking at this program, it was not able to import my Nikon raw files. I converted the Nikon raw files to DNG which it had no problem importing. One issue is that it will not save the resulting stacked image as a DNG. As far as I can tell, you can only save files as jpeg. My only recommendation to the developer is to add the ability to save as DNG to keep as much information in the stacked photo as possible. Update: I just found the option that lets you save out the file as a 16-bit TIFF. Changing my 4 star to 5 star!

Perfect!!!

I normally don't leave reviews, but i took a chance on this software, and WOW. I hope it would work reasonably well, but it works VERY WELL. I no longer had access to focus stacking since i no longer have adobe products. this filled the gap just great. Put me down for a exposure stacker when the offer one...this is well worth the money, and simple to use as well. good job.

Impressive, works great!

I put 58 photos into it, and it produced a beautiful stacked photo. Very very impressive at this price point.

Very impressed

It works as claimed very well and fairly quickly. The design with dark mode is clean and simple as an added bonus. The focus merging program I saw in lists online were hideous looking, which always makes me question if they're any good. This is a solid buy.

Basic but does the job

It does focus stacking magic. That's about it so not much else to say - note I have not used other software to compare and contrast, and since this works and the price was reasonable I do not see myself bothering. Context - my images are 45 megapixel and it chews through a stack of 6 images in less than a minute. For my workflow/life missing feature is better use of Apple Photos as an asset manager. The file picker does allow you to select from system photos, but I did not get it to work (maybe just too slow?). There is also no ability to send images directly from Photos to Focus Stacker which is unfortunate - it would be ideal to not have to export to disk first (drag & drop from photos works, but Photos exports low-rez images in that case).

It gets the job done well

I am just getting in macro photography and was looking for focus stacking solution. This app is gem in the rough! stacked 65 exposures and the result is just fanatstic. I see my self using for the forseeable future

Time saver

Less hassle than using photo editor while also achieving excellent results.

Could use a few important features.

I use Photoshop almost exclusively for focus stacking. Been running CS6 forever as it doesn't make sense to pay an outrageous subscription for a program I use a couple times a month to do focus stack. With the arrival of Catalina (and the death of CS6), I thought I'd try purchasing a focus stack application so I could stop using Photoshop for that purpose. For the most part, Focus Stacker does the job fine. It is, however, missing one crucial feature and a couple others would be nice to have: 1) As best I can tell, there is no manual crop function. This is absolutely essential to a program such as this one. It's a real shame I have to load the finished photo into some photo editing app just to crop the part I want to keep. 2) It would be really nice if there was a simple control to adjust (brightness) levels. Other than that, it seems to work fine. A little faster than Photoshop (because there are several manual steps involved when using Photoshop). More speed would be graciously accepted, but I understand that stacking 40 20-megapixel images is going to take a while.

Impressive!

Easy to use and does its job well!

I can't belive how well this works!!

I have tested this app over and over again with sets of RAW files. Both with tripod and hand held. It worked flawlessly in every test! I have tested some other expensive focus stacking apps and they work no better. They should be very worried.

Does the job well.

I have used this app to stack from 5 to 10 RAW files for macrophotography and been happy with the results. Comparable in output to some more expensive apps. I also liked that it stitched the images in two dimenstions, which is nice for hand-held shots.

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