Great video, thanks for sharing your workflow. File management is crucial and everybody needs to find a system that works for them. I create a folder for every day I'll took photos, "Year/month/day" and in that folder I have a subfolder for that Raw files, a folder for every stack of images and one for my denoised DNGs. I denoise all of my pictures before doing anything with them. I use DxO PureRaw for that, because the Fuji Raw-files are somehow soft in Lightroom and that fixed it pretty good. So I get a sharper image and denoise it at the same time. After that I stack with helicon and edit the DNG in Lightroom / Photoshop.
@@Chrispitchwildlife Not really but that's how I like it. I just tried a few different things and that made the least amount of headaches to me. :) The most important thing is that your system works for you. Take care, love your videos!
Hey Chris, great work. My workflow is a little different because I'm primarily using Lightroom and Zerene, but I found I get cleaner stacks if I run denoise on the raw files first and then stack. The retouching looks to be much easier in Helicon than in Zerene, so I think I'll try it out. Thanks!
Hello KP, thank you very much! 😀 I never tried to Denoise before stacking. I admit. And I never tried Zerene. Lightroom seems to be the ultimate best editing software, but my Luminar is so much cheaper! I may switch one day, if RU-vid gives me money. (I mean have them both, because Luminar was a 1 time payment) 😄 Thank's again for watching and commenting. It helps! Cheers! 🙂
Nice tutorial. You know your way around those two programs for sure. Have you ever tried the Luminar photo stacker? (Looks like the Helicon works better.)
Hey Leon! Thank's for your comment! 😀 I bought the Luminar stacking thing long time ago when it was in promo $23 USD I think... I tried it 3 or 4 times and I gave up. 😆
@@Chrispitchwildlife The newer version seems to work better, but it doesn't do nearly as well as Helicon and doesn't have the touchup abilities. (for the stuff I do, On1 works well.)
Yes, Luminar is constantly improving a bit of everything. We had a big update a few weeks ago with a lot of new fun masking stuff! With the luminosity or the water for example. But yes, best focus stacker I guess is Helicon and Zerene.
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