Focus Stacking Tutorial: Photoshop for Beginners (4k)

Focus stacking with layers and layer masks in Photoshop is the cure for the following scenario: We know it's often difficult to achieve sharp focus in all parts of a photograph, because depth of field is a limitation. This is even more difficult when you are close focusing (think of macro) due to the inverse relationship between focus distance and depth of field. One way around this is to combine a number of images of the same scene in software, each focused at different distances from the camera. As long as the in-focus parts of sequential images have some overlap, the end result will look like it has infinite depth of field. In this tutorial, I take the viewer through all the steps, using layers and masks, to achieve this in Photoshop. As you'll see, you can even start with your images in Lightroom and easily stack them in Photoshop. Then. you'll use Photoshop's 'smarts' to align all the images in the stack so that you can start blending the in-focus parts of each together. If you need a primer on using layers and masks, consider viewing my Compositing with Layers tutorial at https://youtu.be/tBL_aodbsaU.