The Landscape Photography Book

Post-Processing Focus-Stacked Images

If you shot your image using the stacked photo technique (see page 191), here’s what to do in post-processing: First, open the images in Photoshop (this is a Photoshop thing; Lightroom can’t do this). Then, go under the File menu, under Scripts, and choose Load Files into Stack. When the Load Layers dialog appears, click the Add Open Files button, then click OK, and it will combine those stacked images into a single document, with each image on its own layer. Since you shot these on a tripod, they will be perfectly aligned with one another, so now we just have to mask in the sharp areas from each layer to create ...