Thanks for the info. Surely other people have this issue too, so it's good for me to learn about it even though I don't have time right now to do an elegant solution.daemonoropsis wrote:Photoshop defaults to the bracket keys but lets you set them to whatever you want. My own preference is to set them to the , . keys but thats just my preference, dont change anything for my sake as I dont use the function in ZS much.
Correct, switching source images is slow no matter where the images are coming from.Yes the S key is good but as far as I know only for 1 source image and one output, in the video example I only had to source images as it was a simple stack but I will often have 3-4-5 source images and then I have to manually switch between the layers in the output images box which is slow (correct me if im wrong)
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, in Zerene "commit" is something like save, close, and reload the saved image. It's an expensive operation that throws away all history of the editing session.Yes, I mean commit retouching. Once this is done my "redos" are gone and I have to go back to layers to get something.
No disagreement here! All my images get run through Photoshop and that's what I recommend that other people do too.Which is basically the same as in photoshop but there I have complete control over layer opacity, masks, blending mode and the ability to make channel selections, brush shape etc and I will always put my stacks through photoshop anyway so merging there is the natural thing for me
For me Zerene is a brilliant stacking tool but it stops there. It's not a retouching tool for me which is why I made the video in the first place because people asked how I digitally cleaned my bugs in the first place. I know that there is a trend at the moment against using photoshop in photography in general but hen people ask specifically how I do it I dont like lying .
To be clear, photomacrography.net is a support forum for people, not for any particular software. The more information we can share about all products, the better off we are.I appreciate this is your support forum for Zerene and obviously also a way to sell licenses so if you dont like people referencing Photoshop let me know and I wont post any more about how my images come to be.
If it seems different from this, then there is a social problem I need to work on.
I realize the questions/comments in my earlier post were a little curt, and I apologize for that. It was approaching 2 am my time and I was tired, so I didn't take time to wordsmith very carefully. My concern was only to be sure that techniques and tradeoffs are accurately understood, by myself as well as others.
I look forward to learning more about how you work. Even if it involves another stacking program, tell us about that too!
--Rik