PS Synthetic Firefly Effect

PS Synthetic Firefly Effect

In recent years, the popularity of shooting fireflies, some scenes of the firefly density is not satisfactory, when we through the late stack technology to show countless fireflies flying in the sky.

We want to solve the problem:

1. Too few fireflies, how to make up;

2. What is stack, how stack;

3. How to remove the screen should not appear in the lights or accidentally into the screen characters.

What is a stack?

Simply put, the stack is the way to compute the static photos by stacking the layers, and finally get a synthetic picture. It is used to show the continuous change within a certain space-time range, expand the depth of field of the subject, eliminate the noise and unwanted content, and improve the picture quality.

The pros and cons of the stack for shooting fireflies:

Advantages: Effectively reduce the Firefly night exposure time and reduce noise, improve the success rate of shooting.

Disadvantage: The camera should have a large enough memory card, may take dozens of hundred, finally can overlay a satisfactory picture, very expensive shutter frequency, late to the computer configuration requirements higher, but also larger hard disk (stacking speed from your computer's CPU, memory, hard disk and other hardware).

The specific stack operation:

First look at the original pictures we took:

The original picture taken by the camera

We found few fireflies in the single photo, don't worry, you can get a satisfactory work according to the following procedure.

Run Photoshop, the menu bar-> file-> script-> load the file onto the stack;

Load a file onto the stack

When opened, the following dialog box appears:

Classification:

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