help from combine zm user

hey guys..done my 1st stack..amazing..then i done few more..1 thing i have noticed that i dont get..please can someone full in the blanks as its really starting to do my head in..ok this is the problem..

i stack all my pics..perfect pic..i look on combine..amazing..so i save like lordv says in his thread,,,i then look at the combine one on the combine program and look at the one i have saved at 100% qwerty jpg...Now why is it that it looks shaper in the combine program but not as Sharp in the saved pic..does combine have a built in Sharpen tool thats previewing it or somthing?please help

Thats wiered i dont think that hapens to mine. sory

dam it,.lordv dont know either,..he asked if i was saving at 100 % and i am..what a pain.

Well, CombineZM goes up to 120% (?) compression. When it asks for jpeg compression, you can select a value up to 120%. I don't know if it helps, but that could be part of it.

Also, within the stacking macro itself, there are various sharpening algorithms. It's a long shot, but it could be that the sharpening is not applied to the saved jpeg, but rather only the preview image. Very unlikely, but possible.

Can you take a screenshot of the same area in CombineZM and in photoshop right next to each other (in the same frame)? It would be interesting to see the differences between the two (Seemingly) identical shots.

AirBrontosaurus wrote in post #3926799
Well, CombineZM goes up to 120% (?) compression. When it asks for jpeg compression, you can select a value up to 120%. I don't know if it helps, but that could be part of it.

Also, within the stacking macro itself, there are various sharpening algorithms. It's a long shot, but it could be that the sharpening is not applied to the saved jpeg, but rather only the preview image. Very unlikely, but possible.

Can you take a screenshot of the same area in CombineZM and in photoshop right next to each other (in the same frame)? It would be interesting to see the differences between the two (Seemingly) identical shots.

yes i can do that..how can i save the screen shot of combine?

macro junkie wrote in post #3926817
yes i can do that..how can i save the screen shot of combine?

Bring the CombineZM window next to the Photoshop window and have both screens visible and on the same part of the image.

Then, press the "Print Screen" button (yes, it has a use!!!).

This takes a screenshot of your desktop. Now, open it in photoshop by creating a new document and "pasting" the screenshot into it.

Crop it so we can see the same part of the picture in both programs, and post that. It should look like this:

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