Capture One Pro 5 has a focus filter that highlights areas of the photo that appear to be in focus. So yes, such a thing does exist. It is however notoriously hard on processing hardware.
-Adam On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I did some family portraits yesterday, and am going through and sorting them > out. After making a pass to throw out all the ones that aren't perfectly, or > even sufficiently in focus I wonder why I could buy a pocket camera, with a > dinky embedded processor that'll find people's faces and focus on them, but I > don't have something in lightroom to find people's faces and looking at edge > sharpness (eyes, hair etc) rate how well focused that they are. > > While I wouldn't want software to rate the artistic merits of a photo, > software that would rate and sort photos by various technical criteria > (focus, sharpness, exposure, ...) would save me a lot of time in post > processing. > > Sure, there are pathologic cases where you're deliberately goofing with > sharpness or exposure, and there maybe some great photos that have some > technical flaw, but which are still great, but for most of what I do, it > would be a huge help. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
