While I don't shoot nearly as much macro as many of the photographers in this group, I find this whole subject fascinating. Would I trust an AI-built app to handle focus stacking? Absolutely, provided it delivered better results than the tools already available. I don't particularly care how the software was developed. I care about how well it works. As far as having AI edit my photographs, that's a different story. I enjoy the editing process far too much to hand over creative control. For me, editing is as much a part of photography as pressing the shutter. The legal question is interesting, although I suspect it's more complicated than it first appears. AI development has already raised enormous questions about intellectual property, particularly when it comes to training data. But recreating a useful function isn't necessarily the same as copying someone's code. I imagine we'll see plenty of legal arguments over where those boundaries fall. I'm particularly curious about your focus-stacking app. How well did it work? Did you find it genuinely competitive with existing software? I've actually been experimenting with something similar, although for a completely different purpose. I built an app to help scout photography locations. I've loaded approximately 160 locations within a six-to-eight-hour drive of my home in Vermont. It still needs refinement, but I love having a tool built around my particular needs. Nothing commercially available gives me quite that level of specificity. As for AI in photography generally, I think we're well past the point of debating whether it's going to stick around. We can love it, hate it, or fall somewhere in between, but it's here. I already use and appreciate quite a few AI-powered features in photography software. The advances in masking and object removal have been remarkable, and they've made my workflow considerably more efficient. Where I draw the line personally is using AI to invent things that weren't there. But then, that was never the kind of photography I practiced in the first place.

@Mark Sturtevant Or, just have one image. I rather would like it to focus stack the images I input and do a way better job than photoshops stacking.

Nice image and as a dog owner who walks his dog in the woods I could not agree more. My dog is off the leash up until I see/hear others in the woods. She is very well behaved but she is also a dog (and it is hunting season here in Vermont).

Great capture... now I want some truffles.

What amazing work you do! Truly exceptional!

I was in Europe for part of the heat wave (France in July). Happy to be back home in Vermont where the high is 71 and it gets down to the 50s at night. It is sweater weather in the morning.

@Francis Murzyn HELLO!