Hi all, just wanted to give a heads up I recently added focus stacking to my now 6 years old free LR Classic plugin MergeRAW. It uses a bit of a hybrid approach... depth map like Helicon B but with an added high pass filter to merge in additional detail (related to Helicon C). That helps recover spider webs in the foreground and some of the detail lost around the edges of a blurred foreground object that obscures the background in the sharp frames. Runs about 5x as fast as Helicon in fully automatic mode and does have a realtime editor to adjust the depth map or control where to include/exclude the additional detail information. Would love to get some more eyes on it and feedback on what's working well or not.
