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If Adobe is listening, here is what I want for Christmas Maybe we already have it and I just don't know about it.
I read very quickly about "focus stacking" that Photoshop can do, which is much like HDR it seems but Photoshop has some buttons to look at focus. This implies that somehow, Mr. Computer can figure out which areas are in focus and which ones are not. Utopia would be if Mr. Computer could figure out the degree to which an area is in focus.
If this is true, then what would be mega super duper cool is if Lightroom could give me a few tips when I am reviewing an image. It would be nice if it could give me where it thinks the in focus areas are at perhaps by making the out of focus areas dim or draw a red line around the in focus areas. It would also be nice if it could give me a range say from 0 to 10 of what amount of the image is in focus. Indeed, this might be -10 to 10 with 0 through -10 if nothing is in sharp focus with -1 being just slightly out of focus and -10 being way out of focus.
What I'm going after is a quicker way to review batches of photos of the same subject, order them by the focus rating, and then go through them in that order until one has the focus area over the intended target.
Shamefully, I'm a computer geek / programmer but I don't have a clue how one would go about determining what areas are in focus. I'm assuming that Photoshop can do it somehow based on its focus stacking ability.
Note, I'm not talking about digging out the metadata that tells me where the camera put the focus point. That would be nice to have too but I realize that its not a universal EXIF data so Adobe would need to customize it for each camera.
I read very quickly about "focus stacking" that Photoshop can do, which is much like HDR it seems but Photoshop has some buttons to look at focus. This implies that somehow, Mr. Computer can figure out which areas are in focus and which ones are not. Utopia would be if Mr. Computer could figure out the degree to which an area is in focus.
If this is true, then what would be mega super duper cool is if Lightroom could give me a few tips when I am reviewing an image. It would be nice if it could give me where it thinks the in focus areas are at perhaps by making the out of focus areas dim or draw a red line around the in focus areas. It would also be nice if it could give me a range say from 0 to 10 of what amount of the image is in focus. Indeed, this might be -10 to 10 with 0 through -10 if nothing is in sharp focus with -1 being just slightly out of focus and -10 being way out of focus.
What I'm going after is a quicker way to review batches of photos of the same subject, order them by the focus rating, and then go through them in that order until one has the focus area over the intended target.
Shamefully, I'm a computer geek / programmer but I don't have a clue how one would go about determining what areas are in focus. I'm assuming that Photoshop can do it somehow based on its focus stacking ability.
Note, I'm not talking about digging out the metadata that tells me where the camera put the focus point. That would be nice to have too but I realize that its not a universal EXIF data so Adobe would need to customize it for each camera.