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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2927974, member: 1765&quot;]I currently don&#039;t have a good focus stacking setup, so I&#039;ll show pointer of what I do with my normal workflow.</p><p><br /></p><p>My shots like this are limited to tens of thousands of point and shoot images taken handheld through a stereoscope.&nbsp; Images like the OP image are typical, although usually at higher magnification.&nbsp; What I do when I post-process these is convert to grayscale by saving only either the green channel or red channel.&nbsp; Colorful toning can be distracting when illustrating a die variety.&nbsp; In the image below, I saved the red channel, which diminishes the brown toning above the date.&nbsp; In other cases, I save the green channel, because it has the least amount of noise.&nbsp; The blue channel is rarely useful by itself.&nbsp; Next, I increase the contrast.&nbsp; Clipping highlights and shadows is OK if there is no meaningful information lost.&nbsp; This wouldn&#039;t be advisable on a color image.&nbsp; Finally, a little bit of sharpening, and now the OP picture is bolder and sharper.</p><p><br /></p><p>My goal for these kinds of pictures is to make die variety diagnostics easy to see in a 600x450 image on a browser, and usable printed at 1&quot; x 3/4&quot; on a label.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710392[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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