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Lightroom/Camera Raw: Focus mask / image sharpness
Like a topographical map, except instead of showing altitude, show sharpness/in-focus-ness.Would allow one to see at a glance where the focal plane lies, and how well focused is the photo at the focal plane (and everywhere else), and what is the depth of field.PhaseOne took a whack at this in CaptureOne. I think their implementation has some weaknesses: shows focal plane, but no indication of how well focused at the plane, and gives no sense of depth of field, but is still quite useful.See http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh... for a related idea, that would go nicely with this one.If you like this idea, please remember to click the '+1' button below.
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samuel_marshall
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426 Points
9 years ago
This would help my workflow because there are frequently cases where I took several copies of a shot at slow shutter speed, and want to see which is the sharp one, without having to manually compare them. (I would also like a quick way of spotting 'blurred' shots right away in general.)
It could be a number ('on a scale of 1 to 100, how sharp is the sharpest bit of the picture'), which you could set to appear as a badge on the image thumbnail, or else a visual display such as a colour-map of which areas are sharp (green = really sharp, red = soft, or something like that). The latter could also indicate what's in focus. Should be available from the main library screen so you don't have to look at the photo to see how sharp it is.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom - programmatically calculate image sharpness.
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drazick
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602 Points
9 years ago
It can be done.
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naestyoh
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9 years ago
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jarno_heikkinen
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706 Points
9 years ago
http://www.capturemonkey.com/focusmask
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ross_dillon
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408 Points
8 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
How about a "mask" to show areas of sharp focus?.
Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Lightroom/Camera Raw: Display camera focus information topic.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
How about a "mask" to show areas of sharp focus?.
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svetoslav_popov
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122 Points
8 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Automatic focus checking.
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christian_sirois
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108 Points
8 years ago
This would make it very quick to find the best in focus image in a series of pictures.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom : Focus peaking, mask, check....
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shai_yammanee
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120 Points
8 years ago
This has also been recreated by the guys at Magic Lantern for DSLRs.
Any focus mask feature would make such a speed difference for me after my shoots.
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jarno_pelkonen
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198 Points
8 years ago
This should be available in Library and Development modules to enable fast image picking and filtering.
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christian_sirois
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108 Points
8 years ago
I work with a 12fps dslr and when shooting sport I can burst 10-15 images each time I press the shutter button. It's not an option, it's MANDATORY for me to check the focus of images before retouching them.
Focus Mask is long overdue and would be much much more useful than a lot of other features.
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jean_francois_perreault_7522562
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152 Points
5 years ago
In Grid view, it would make culling so much faster if we could have some sort of Focus Mask (like Capture One).
Please add something to easily see if a photo is properly focused without having to zoom in on it. Thanks!!!
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naestyoh
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5 years ago
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bryn_forbes
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frenchfries
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benjamin_rodd
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4 years ago
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