A focus stacking tool for photographing a mineral collection
A macro photographer built their own focus stacking software with Claude after finding two commercial apps painful to use.
Credits
- Reddit poster EthanNicholas Source ↗
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The full story
After years with their mineral collection in boxes, the poster wanted to photograph and catalogue it properly. Macro shots have a tiny depth of field, so photographers combine many images taken at different focus distances (focus stacking). They already owned two commercial apps for this but disliked their interfaces, so they built their own with Claude Max.
They say it was "actually really hard" and not something to vibe code in a weekend, but they are happy with the results, which they show in the post.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I used Claude to photograph and catalog my mineral collectionReddit poster: EthanNicholasPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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