I would like to make the following suggestion: Add a feature in DigiKam to be able to perform focuss staking in a similar manner that DigiKam performs Braketing ( expore blending) . Refer to this web site that presents focus-stack : https://peterfalkingham.com/2024/04/29/an-excellent-free-and-open-source-focus-stacking-solution/ and: https://github.com/PetteriAimonen/focus-stack Is it possible to add focuss-stack as a plug in in DigiKam ? Kind regards Michel Cambron
Hi Michael, In digiKam 8.7.0, The G'MIC-Qt image filters collection will be able to process a selection of items and merge result into one. I recommend to take a look to the Blend* filters where focus stack canbe merged in different meaner. Look this screenshot for ex: https://imgur.com/a/KDw39Hb To test, try the 8.7.0 pre-release available here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Best regards Gilles Caulier
Bonjour Gilles, Merci de m'aviser de cette nouvelle fonctionnalité. je vais faire des tests la semaine prochaine et je te donnerai des nouvelles. Bonne journée Michel Le 2025-05-19 à 07:45, bugzilla_noreply@kde.org a écrit : > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493957 > > --- Comment #1 from caulier.gilles@gmail.com --- > Hi Michael, > > In digiKam 8.7.0, The G'MIC-Qt image filters collection will be able to process > a selection of items and merge result into one. > > I recommend to take a look to the Blend* filters where focus stack canbe merged > in different meaner. Look this screenshot for ex: > > https://imgur.com/a/KDw39Hb > > To test, try the 8.7.0 pre-release available here : > > https://files.kde.org/digikam/ > Best regards > > Gilles Caulier >
Bonjour Gilles, J'ai effectué des tests avec la nouvelle fonction de DigiKam de pouvoir choisir des photos et de créer des couches ( layer) de façon à utiliser les filtres «Blend» de GMIC . J'ai effectué des essais avec « Blend Edges» et «Blend Fades» sans trop comprendre le fonctionnement des glisseurs et je n'ai pas trouvé de documentation qui explique le fonctionnement des différents paramètres. De plus lorsque je traite cinq photos avec des profondeurs de champ différent, GMIC produits deux ou trois fichiers qui ne sont pas des empilements de photos mis au point. De ce que je peux comprendre des minces explications sur le site GMIC ( https://gmic.eu/reference/list_of_commands.html#blending_and_fading) , ces « Blend» modes ne sont pas pour faire du «focus stacking» à moins que j'aie manqué quelque chose dans le fonctionnement des «Blend». Salutations, Michel Le 2025-05-19 à 11:33, Michel Cambron a écrit : > Bonjour Gilles, > > Merci de m'aviser de cette nouvelle fonctionnalité. je vais faire des > tests la semaine prochaine et je te donnerai des nouvelles. > > Bonne journée > > Michel > > > Le 2025-05-19 à 07:45, bugzilla_noreply@kde.org a écrit : >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493957 >> >> --- Comment #1 from caulier.gilles@gmail.com --- >> Hi Michael, >> >> In digiKam 8.7.0, The G'MIC-Qt image filters collection will be able >> to process >> a selection of items and merge result into one. >> >> I recommend to take a look to the Blend* filters where focus stack >> canbe merged >> in different meaner. Look this screenshot for ex: >> >> https://imgur.com/a/KDw39Hb >> >> To test, try the 8.7.0 pre-release available here : >> >> https://files.kde.org/digikam/ >> Best regards >> >> Gilles Caulier >>
Hallo Michel, du diskutierst ein sehr interessantes Thema. Ich denke allerdings, dass sich deutlich mehr user an der Diskussion beteiligen würden, wenn du in englischer Sprache deine Punkte vortragen könntest. Französisch ist eben nicht jedermanns Sache. Wenn du mit der englischen Sprache nicht so vertraut bist, kannst du vielleicht ein Übersetzungstool, wei z.B. deepl.com verwenden. Viele Grüße, Stephan Hello Michel, You are discussing a very interesting topic. However, I think that many more users would take part in the discussion if you could make your points in English. French is not everyone's cup of tea. If you are not so familiar with the English language, you could perhaps use a translation tool such as deepl.com. Best regards, Stephan
In essence, Gilles wrote to me to say that DIGIKAM 8,7 had a new feature to able to select images and put them in layers which enabled the use of blend modes in GMIC. I did some tests with two BLEND modes ( edges and fades) and I tried to focus stack 4 pictures I took with different focus point. I found it difficult to use these blend modes as the documentation is near non-existent ( see https://gmic.eu/reference/list_of_commands.html#blending_and_fading ) and documentation does not explain the parameters of the different sliders. For a reason or another, GMIC blend produces two or three output picture with barely any focus improvement. I think that these blend modes have a different purpose and they do not do focus staking. See a good example of an application that does focus stacking named Picolay: https://www.picolay.de/index.html. Thank you for all the work that you do to make DigiKam a very useful tool to manage my 100,000 + photos. Kind regards, Michel
Doc about the new G'MIC layers mode plugin in digiKam which use now a wizard dialog : https://docs.digikam.org/en/image_editor/enhancement_tools.html#layers-mode-tool
Created attachment 181851 [details] attachment-3342620-0.html Bonjour, I reviewed the Digikam documentation per the link that you sent me. However I do not see the description of the different blending modes in the Layers section of GMIC. *BUG:* I installed DigiKam 8.7 and when I click on the help button and then click on the on-line documentation, DigiKam will freeze and I must kill the process with the window task manager. Regards, Michel Le 2025-05-28 à 22:13, bugzilla_noreply@kde.org a écrit : > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493957 > > --- Comment #6 fromcaulier.gilles@gmail.com --- > Doc about the new G'MIC layers mode plugin in digiKam which use now a wizard > dialog : > > https://docs.digikam.org/en/image_editor/enhancement_tools.html#layers-mode-tool >
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I fixed this few days ago... Download a new daily build.