Editor: Helicon Focus is a program that creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas.
The program is designed for macrophotography, microphotography and hyperfocal landscape photography to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem.
Why Helicon Focus?
* Quality: advanced interpolation techniques, 16 bit workflow, direct RAW input
* Scope: unlimted number of images, resolution over 100Mpixels, 64 bit support, Windows/Mac versions
* Performace: very fast, multi-threaded, i7 compatible, Batch and command line modes available
* Tools: clone from source brush to repaint moving parts, 3D model , dust map, 2D Panorama
Helicon Focus Lite (basic version):
* Automatically adjusts and resizes images (important for stereomicroscopes and macrophotography)
* Uses all available processors (Windows version 1.7 times FASTER with 2 processors, 2.3 times faster with 4 processors, Windows only)
* Preserves Details by using advanced interpolators for image manipulation (Lanczos, Sinc256)
* Internal workflow always uses 16 bit color depth to preserve colors
* Processes an unlimited number of images in the stack
* Supports "dust map" to automatically remove black points from the resulting images
* Automatically adjusts brightness of the adjacent images
* Reads RAW, 8bit and 16bit TIFFs, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, etc
* Writes 8bit and 16bit TIFFs, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP
* Adds text and scale bar (Windows version v.4.0+)
* Provides command line interface to call it from other applications (Windows version v.4.0+)
