In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, you can focus stack by using Auto-Blend Layers on several images to create one final image with crisp lines. Focus stacking in landscape photography.
Focus stacking is no more cheating than any other digital processing technique. It’s a very common way of increasing depth of field beyond the capabilities of your lens.
Here’s how it’s done: In Lightroom, select the images you shot to be focus-stacked. Now right-click (Mac: Ctrl-click) on any of the images and from the pop-up menu that appears, go under ‘Edit in’ and choose the very last choice on the list, which is ‘Open as Layers in Photoshop.’.
What is focus stacking and how do you do it?
In short, focus stacking takes the sharpest parts of a few similar photographs to create a composition with greater clarity. And, while the process may sound time-consuming, it actually only takes a few minutes to implement. Here’s what you need to know to start focus stacking in Lightroom and Photoshop today! Jump to the Technique here!
However, there’s a way to make the Photoshop part of the technique three clicks total by using Lightroom up front to make the Photoshop part that much easier. It’s super simple (in fact, it’s really just one step. Well, one and a half, I guess). Here’s how it’s done: In Lightroom, select the images you shot to be focus-stacked.
A focus-stacked image is one where multiple images with different focal points are merged together, thus allowing for a greater depth of field. Focus stacking allows you to get more of your image in focus than would otherwise be possible. Can you stack photos in Lightroom CC? No, focus stacking is not available in Lightroom CC.
What are stacks in Lightroom Classic?
You can create stacks to group a set of visually similar photos together, making them easy to manage. Stacks are useful for keeping multiple photos of the same subject or a photo and its virtual copies in one place, and they reduce clutter in the Grid view and the Filmstrip.