Combine ZP User.

Question

I am a long time user of Combine ZP. I use this software to stack multiple images of micro minerals as a hobby to both document and catalog my specimens and to share them with others who have the same appreciation of micro minerals and micro-mounting. At the scale of many of my subjects I find myself having to stack as many as 60 to 80 images just to get a FOF that captures what I am shooting. In doing so, a large portion of the resulting images, especially around the periphery of the combined frame out of focus and many times littered with artifacts produced by the stacking process. I found that by processing the raw photo image saved as a BMP significantly reduces the occurrence of artifacts, but one might expect the processing time is greatly increased. I usually end up cropping the final images for the view of the subject I was shooting in the first place.

My question: Is there a way from within Combine ZP that will allow be to set a single crop limit before within which Combine ZP performs its magic, ignoring the area of the images that lay outside of the crop fence?

Answer 1

I've searched through the files and various websites and I couldn't find anything in particular about the option you refer to. I recommend you search through the help file/section as well because that's the only place to find the option. The official website of the developer is also not unavailable. A DNS error is given instead of the actual page which means it could be discontinued as well.

Answer 2

Have you tried cropping your source images (would need to do the exact same crop to all of them) to include less of the out of focus area before stacking rather than after?