Helicon Focus is a proprietary commercial digital image processing tool, first released in 2003, developed and published by Helicon Soft Limited. Like programs such as CombineZ, Helicon Focus is designed to blend the focused areas of several partially focused digital photographs to increase the depth of field (DOF) possible in an image.

Overview[link]

Helicon Focus can be used to increase DOF in any situation, though its primary uses are in macro photography, landscape photography and photo-microscopy. In macro photography, the DOF is often very small. To increase it, Helicon Focus is capable of merging several differently focused images together to create one image where the subject is entirely in focus. In landscape photography, where the entire frame is often preferred to be in focus (such as distant clouds and an object of interest in the foreground), Focus can be used to blend photos together to create a desired result.

Features[link]

• Automatic adjustments during stacking
• "Dust map" for removing black points from the resulting images
• Supports most common file types, including RAW, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, and BMP
• Can add text and a scale bar
• 3D stack visualization and Wavefront .obj export
• (In Pro) Retouch brushes to manually brush in any focused (or unfocused) areas that weren't merged properly
• (In Pro) Create panoramas
• Create image stack animations
• Batch processing

See also[link]

• Helicon Filter
• Depth of field

External links[link]

• Helicon Focus Homepage
• Helicon Soft Ltd.
• Focus stacking Pictures and technic.
• d-Studio Ltd.
• Version for Mac OS X
• Outback Photo review of Helicon Focus 3.00 and CombineZ5

Look up focus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Focus, FOCUS, or foci may refer to:

In science, mathematics or computing:

• Focus (cognitive process), selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things
• Focus (computing), a term used to describe which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input
• Focus (optics), a point toward which light rays are made to converge
• Focus (linguistics), a concept referring to the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before
• Focus (earthquake), an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter
• FOCUS, a database reporting program
• FOCUS (hardware), a CPU architecture
• Helicon Focus, an image software program
• Focus (geometry), a focus of a conic section
• Samsung Focus, a smartphone manufactured by Samsung which runs Microsoft Windows Phone

In music:

• Focus (Stan Getz album), 1961 jazz album
• Focus (Cynic album), 1993 metal album
• Focus (band), 1970s Dutch band
• Bernard "Focus..." Edwards, Jr., a U.S. music producer
• "Focus", a song by John Reuben
• "Focus", a song by Joe Budden

In writing:

• Focus (encyclopedia), a Swedish language encyclopedia
• Focus (German magazine), a German weekly news magazine
• Focus (Italian magazine), an Italian magazine
• Focus (Polish magazine), a Polish magazine
• Focus (Christian magazine), a Christian magazine
• Focus (novel), a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller
  • Focus (film), a 2002 film of the novel
• BBC Focus, a monthly science and technology magazine

Other meanings:

• Focus (film), a 2002 film
• AGM-87 Focus, a U.S. Navy air-to-surface missile
• Focus Bikes, a German bicycle manufacturer
• Ford Focus (international), international model of Ford Focus automobile
• Ford Focus (North America), North American model of Ford Focus automobile
• Focus (board game), an abstract strategy game
• Focus group, a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging
• Focus mitt, a padded target attached to a glove and usually used in training boxers and other combat athletes
• Operation Focus, the Israeli name for the attack against the Egyptian Air Force in the Six-Day War
• Focus, in Final Fantasy XIII, a task given to L'Cie to grant eternal life upon completion, or the life of a mindless Cieth on failure
• Foci, Hungarian word for association football

Company and organizations:

• Focus (DIY), a UK chain of do-it-yourself stores
• Focus.com, a business social networking platform
• FOCUS Brands, American restaurant franchiser and operator
• Focus Features, the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios
• Focus Films, U.K. independent film producer
• FOR Organizing Committee of the United States, an American post-Trotskyist group, known as FOCUS
• Focus Humanitarian Assistance, an international emergency relief organization
• Focus Ireland, Irish nonprofit organization providing services for homeless people
• FOCUS Program, a voluntary study program at numerous American universities
• Fellowship of Catholic University Students
• Focus Software, former name of Zemax Development Corporation, a maker of optical design software
• The Focus Group (Business), a UK-based apparel company
• Focus Home Interactive, a French publisher of computer games
• Families OverComing Under Stress, a stress management program
• FOCUS,a Photography Society of DPS Dwarka,New Delhi

See also[link]

• Hyperfocus
• Strong focusing

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