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Zerene Stacker v1.02 32bit-FOSI

What is Zerene Stacker?

Zerene Stacker is a ?focus stacking? program designed specifically for challenging macro subjects and discerning photographers. 
Of course it works great with simpler subjects, close-ups, and landscapes also!

This subject is a common fruit fly, as seen through a 100X microscope.  Individual image on the left, stacked result on the right.

Why use it?

Zerene Stacker has several advantages over other commonly used stacking programs: 
 
�        Highest quality output images, especially in difficult cases
o   Accurate and robust alignment and interpolation
o   Advanced stacking algorithms
�  Clean handling of hairs and bristles -- no halos or contour lines
�  Preserves low contrast detail and avoids "stacking mush" with deep stacks
o   Fast and flexible retouching makes it easy to combine the best features of multiple algorithms as well as original frames
�        Supports 8- and 16-bit input and output files

�        Can generate stereo and 3-D rocking animations from a single stack, even for difficult subjects with structural overlaps and bristles.
�        Designed to fully utilize modern multi-core processors and multi-processor computers

How big of a stack can it handle?

Zerene Stacker is designed for deep stacks.  There is no intrinsic limit on stack depth.  Our standard test suite includes numerous stacks containing more than 150 frames. 

Zerene Stacker can handle most modern cameras.  15 megapixel images are routine.  Most 32-bit machines can handle 21 megapixels.  64-bit systems have no practical limit except physical memory.