To think I spent the last 30 years doing this manually... Just kill me now 🤣

Thank you Nick "fellow Oregonian" here it is 6 years later and your video is STILL a great reminder for the details to achieve a great focus stacked shot.

Successfully ding your first focus stack is one of those "Wow, I'm a Landscape Photographer" moments

Nick,
You are gifted teacher who can present information in a clear and concise way for people to learn easily. I miss your tutorials and hope all is well. John

I'm doing some travel nursing and I'm now in Arizona for the first time.  Gonna have to revisit the Grand Canyon and take some more photos now that I know how to focus stack! This video was just what I needed.

Bro, english is not my first language and you speak so easy to understand. I loved this tutorial, you ROCK!

Good tip about copying images into a group. Too often I get a blob or smear when I auto blend.

Man I really love the way you articulate yourself. You explain things so well in my humble opinion.

Very concise, sightly humourous and absolutely real, love it!

Sorry I'm late to this party hahaha

This is by far the best, most comprehensive, and simplest tutorial of the countless focus stacking videos out there. Bless you.

Ben Horne has  become the “reference” for everyone and everything!!! Ha, loved it!!!

First time i tried to focus stack was today...got lost watching other videos and yours nailed it! I appreciate the help! Great photos by the way!

If your layers wont auto align - make sure to rasterize them! ;)

As a young, emerging photographer I always wanted to learn how to focus stack my images, but was always overwhelmed with the thought of it being to complex.. today I eventually ventured into it and found your video. What a gem!
Clear, concise, helpful … thank you so much! That one small thing has made such a change to my image making already ! 🙌
I’ve subbed 📸 thank again!!

Hi Nick: I just discovered your teaching videos on photo stacking. Thanks for making it clear and understandable for us Photoshop newbies. I have listened to hundreds of YouTube videos and your's is one of the best.

This was no exaggeration. This is literally the first photoshop video you should watch!

I just wanted to say a quick thank you. This video helped me so much and I've finally managed to compose my first focus stacked image. I am so stoked right now! Thanks again!

This tutorial is superb, now I'm focus stacking like a pro. Thanks Nick.

Thank you! A great tutorial and one of the best and most comprehensive I have seen on the subject.

Great tutorial Nick, thanks. For anyone that is a Canon R5 or R6 owner use the Focus stacking tool, works amazing. It shoots the images so quickly you can focus stack and hand hold at same time. Doesn't seem to matter what settings you use either, camera just knows how many to take and where to focus for each image. Never seen it work so well on any camera until now.

I was going through your Essential Photoshop practice files where we go through focus stacking and then this video showed up. Both are very well done. Thanks!