Franzis FOCUS projects 4

With FOCUS projects 4, anyone can create the most stunning macros seen in photo galleries and magazines. Thanks to new technologies from FOCUS, you can create state-of-the-art macro shots that have a fascinatingly large depth of field and bring extraordinary details to light.

• NEW: HQ Stacking with 64-bit calculation
• NEW: Focus-Boost technology for even more sharpness
• NEW: Significance check of your sharpness series
• Up to 30 focus levels
• Uniquely precise alignment of all images in the stack

FOCUS projects 4

With FOCUS projects 4, anyone can create the most impressive macros known from photo galleries and magazines. Thanks to FOCUS' new technologies, you can create state-of-the-art macro images that have a fascinating depth of field and bring extraordinary details to light.

Focus stacking is the ultimate discipline for macro, nature and product photographers who want to see their images featured in natural history forums and hot online galleries. For this purpose, new tools for selective image retouching, expert filters and a complete RAW developer are also available.

What is Focus Stacking?
Do you know it? Even if you get very close to an object, the depth of field is not large enough to keep the entire object in focus? If you like to shoot at scales of 1:1 or above, you'll reach the limits of your optics sooner than you'd like.

Depth of field is very shallow when shooting at these scales. It cannot be compensated for by stopping down the aperture, because this reduces the sharpness of detail of the entire image and there is not enough light.

That's finally the end of it. The solution is: Record a focus series - a focus stack! FOCUS projects 4 then merges all the shots from 3 to 30 focus levels into a single image with incomparable depth of field.

The photographed object is now consistently sharp from front to back, all without effort and in just a few seconds. You don't need to press any buttons or adjust any sliders. You get sharp macros fully automatically.

Use the stacking software for:

+ Nature macro photography

+ product photography

+ landscape photography

+ still life

+ Microscope photography

+ Optimal product images for online shops and auctions

Additional Presets and Smart-Mask Expert Filters
The latest version of FOCUS projects offers you many improved and new software highlights that are precisely tailored to the needs of modern photography. Additional presets and Smart-Mask expert filters for fast results in unique quality make optimizing your macros easy. Integrated batch processing lets you work even more efficiently. What are you waiting for?

Significance check of your sharpening series!
Which single images really help, which ones rather disturb the overall work of art? FOCUS projects 4 analyzes the individual images of your sharpening series and ignores the images that are not necessary for the calculation of the overall image. This way, fewer errors creep into your image and the development process is streamlined.

Internet connection required.

System Requirements

Windows operating system:

• 10/8/7, 32 Bit, Processor Core Duo, 2 GB free RAM, 2 GB HDD, Screen resolution 1.280 x 1.024 Pixel, Graphics card: Direct-X compatible, 128 MB, 32 Bit color depth

• Recommended: 10/8/7, 64 bit, Intel I5 processor, 8 GB free RAM, 2 GB HDD, screen resolution 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, graphics card: Direct-X compatible, 128 MB, 32 bit color depth

Operating system Mac

Plug-in functionality is not currently supported by macOS 10.15 (Catalina).

• OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit, Intel processor, 2 GB free RAM, 2 GB HDD, screen resolution 1,280 x 1,024 pixels, Retina 2,304 x 1,440 pixels

• Recommended: OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit, Intel processor, 8 GB free RAM, 2 GB HDD, screen resolution 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, Retina 2,304 x 1,440 pixels