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Focus Stacking Studio

Align photos shot at different focus distances. Blend their sharpest regions, fine-tune the result, and export—all on your device.

Local processingIntelligent focus mapsManual source retouch
YOUR WORKSPACE

Stacking workspace

Start with 2–12 JPEG, PNG, or WebP photos of the same still scene.

Detail preview

Import a focus series to begin.

SOURCE —
Your focus series starts hereAdd two or more photographs to inspect their alignment and build a composite.
RESULT Ready when you are
One image. Every focal plane.Focused details are selected and blended into a new image.

Export your final photograph

PNG is lossless. JPEG is smaller but lossy. The exported dimensions are shown above.

Common crop area becomes available after stacking.
THE PROCESS

From a focus series to one sharp photograph.

01

Import your stack

Choose photos with overlapping framing but different planes of focus. Keep moving subjects to a minimum.

02

Align & blend

Estimate translations and small scale changes. Measure local sharpness and feather the selected regions.

03

Inspect & retouch

Fix accidental halos, motion or wrong source choices with a local source brush. Export PNG or JPEG.

This is a lightweight browser compositor, not a RAW developer or full optical-flow registration engine. Alignment is limited to translation and uniform scale, and extremely large stacks are downsampled. Photos with large perspective shifts, subject motion or severe focus breathing may need desktop software. Output metadata and original EXIF are not preserved.

Using Focus Stacking Studio

Combine two to twelve related images into one focus-composited result, review alignment and source blending, and export the raster image separately from its diagnostic session record.

Workflow

  1. Load two to twelve images of the same scene
  2. align small framing differences and review which source contributes in focused areas
  3. brush source selection or adjust offsets and scale, then inspect the common crop and export PNG or JPEG.

Example

Stack several tripod images focused at different depths, correct small shifts, review the blend around a high-contrast edge and save the result with its session diagnostics.

Limits and data handling

This works best for similar framing and limited motion. Alignment handles small translation and justified uniform scale, not arbitrary camera parallax. Source blending and the largest opaque common-area crop need visual review. Session JSON is diagnostic and excludes images; it is not a portable project. PNG can retain alpha while JPEG uses a white matte. Output quality depends on source overlap and movement.

FAQs

Can it align images taken from very different viewpoints?

No. Alignment is limited to small shifts and scale and does not correct arbitrary parallax.

Does the session JSON include the source photographs?

No. It is a diagnostic record without image data, not a complete project backup.

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