‹Studio Macro Studio

Stack a focus-shift set

Load the frames from an in-camera focus-shift burst (JPEG or PNG). They'll be combined into one frame that's sharp from front to back, with the background left soft.

…or drag the set onto this panel.

Haven’t got a burst to hand? 13 frames of a hawkweed, 2.5 MB, downloaded once.

Macro focus stacking

A macro shot has paper-thin depth of field, so a single frame is only sharp in one slice. A focus-shift burst walks the focus through the subject; this tool measures where each frame is sharpest and blends those regions into one fully-sharp image, keeping the background bokeh smooth.

JPEG or PNG sets for now. Everything runs on your device — nothing is uploaded (privacy).

What is kept, and what is not

Nothing you load is stored anywhere. Your frames are read into memory, stacked there, and gone when you close the tab or press New set — there is no session to come back to and nothing to clear. Save the image before you leave, and what you save is an ordinary file that is yours.

Two small things do persist, both on this device: the colour palette and Day/Night choice, and the practice set once you have fetched it, so pressing Try a practice set a second time costs nothing. Removing the app takes both with it and touches no image you have saved.

Install as an app — one, two, or three

You get a full-screen icon that works offline. Open the page you want, then:

Removing it again

Worth knowing before you install: an installed app is not a shortcut, so unpinning it from a taskbar or dock does not remove it.

Removing the app does not touch photos you have already saved.

Macro and Infrared are separate tools under one Studio launcher (the link up top goes back to it). You pick what to install:

You can add or remove any of them later — installing one never blocks the others.

Noah Jefferson The hub — the photography accounts and every free app, this one included.

Accessibility →

Licence — PolyForm Noncommercial →

Fonts — SIL Open Font License →

Opens a plain-text report of what this device is and how the app is set up here, ready to copy into a message, plus a page that measures how fast this device actually runs. It carries nothing about your photographs.
Checks for a new version and reloads — use this if a new feature or fix hasn’t shown up yet. No need to close the app.

Day or night

Colour palette

Changes the colours only — the Day/Night switch above still works the same in every one.