Really no need to comment here, even I am now fed up with poppies!
Posted because I've cracked (hopefully) the focus stacking hiccup (needed to take the opacity down) and I spent so much time faffing about yesterday it seemed sad for them not to see the light of day.
@robz It was two base images Rob of two poppies. Both pictures were identical except in the first one the focus was on the stamen of the lhs poppy. In the second one the focus was on the centre of the poppy on the rhs. I used a feature in Elements called Photomerge Exposure which enables you to extract bits of one or more pictures and transfer it to a source image. Initially it looked really odd with soft petals but sharp well defined stamens until I tried the Opacity slider which seemed to work. Hope this helps!
I often feel like that about images I have worked with over a long time. End up not knowing, or even caring if I like them sometimes. Well I can assure you that I do like this very much and your faffing about seems to have stopped at just the right time
Thanks so much for your explanation! I think I might be able to do a similar thing with my program - it sounds quite similar to the basic steps for the HDR shots - but with focus differences rather than exposure differences. Thanks again - I really appreciate your help! Cheers Rob
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Those poppies are swirling their skirts so ethereally! fav