shinestacker 0.3.0

ShineStacker

Shine Stacker

Focus Stacking Processing Framework and GUI

Focus stacking for microscopy, macro photography, and computational imaging

Key Features

• 🚀 Batch Processing: Align, balance, and stack hundreds of images
• 🎨 Hybrid Workflows: Combine Python scripting with GUI refinement
• 🧩 Modular Architecture: Mix-and-match processing modules
• 🖌️ Non-Destructive Editing: Save multilayer TIFFs for retouching
• 📊 Jupyter Integration: Reproducible research notebooks

Interactive GUI

The GUI has two main working areas:

• Project: manage and run focus stacking workflows in a flexible and configurable way, with optional intermediate batch stacking.

• Retouch: interactive final refinements to final blended image from individual frames.

Documentation

📖 Main documentation • 📝 Changelog

Credits

The main pyramid stack algorithm was initially inspired by the Laplacian pyramids method implementation by Sami Jawhar that was used under permission of the author for initial versions of this package. The implementation in the latest releases was rewritten from the original code.

Resources

• Pyramid Methods in Image Processing, E. H. Adelson, C. H. Anderson, J. R. Bergen, P. J. Burt, J. M. Ogden, RCA Engineer, 29-6, Nov/Dec 1984 Pyramid methods in image processing
• A Multi-focus Image Fusion Method Based on Laplacian Pyramid, Wencheng Wang, Faliang Chang, Journal of Computers 6 (12), 2559, December 2011
• Another original implementation on GitHub by Zongnan Bao

License

The software is provided as is under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0.