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Using Focus Merge

Using Focus Merge - Affinity Photo Tutorial

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Using Focus Merge

- [Instructor] Here's a photograph of a bust of the philosopher Sophocles, and the camera was set to a narrow depth of field. While he's clearly in focus, the background's out of focus. Here's another shot with this skeletal bird in the background in focus. And here's another one with the background fully in focus, and you can see how blurred Sophocles is right in the foreground. Affinity Photo has a way to take all three of these photographs and merge them together to produce a result where everything is fully in focus. Let's start by putting all these three away. We'll go to the File menu and choose New Focus Merge. When the dialog appears, you can select your images. Press the Add button at the bottom. And select all the images that you want to include. All you have to do now is press OK. It will go through the process of examining all the images, and it'll result in an image with all the elements, the bust, the skeleton, and the background, fully in focus. Now, the results are not…

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