Digital Scheimpflug

The Scheimpflug principle is usually associated with view cameras. The movable standards on these cameras can be tilted and swung to facilitate increased depth-of-focus in scenes with significant depth-of field. Digital Scheimpflug is a means to accomplish the same thing using Photoshop CS3. It allows the use of a lens's best aperture to take focal plane slices of a scene and then combine these slices to create a print with significantly enhanced depth-of-focus.

This tutorial describes the digital Scheimpflug process. It is illustrated with pictures and screen shots that describe all the steps from taking the pictures through seeing the difference it can make in enlarged prints. The tutorial is packaged as a 23-page eBook, so you may print it out or have it open on your computer as a ready reference as you work through the steps. It is important that you are running Photoshop CS3 or higher since the digital Scheimpflug procedure uses functions specific to this version of the program.

Below are links to several chapters from the eBook as either Acrobat files or HTML. The chapters will open in new windows when you click the links.

Table of Contents	Acrobat	HTML
Introduction	Acrobat	HTML
Take Pictures	Acrobat	HTML
Seeing the Difference	Acrobat	HTML
Traditional vs. Digital Scheimpflug	Acrobat	HTML

This e-book (a PDF document) is available on a donation basis through the  Special Offer .

Below is a comment from one of the first readers:

• "My own efforts at digital Scheimpflug were daunting until I had my "aha moment" when I read your technique. The content and the ease of understanding what you are trying to convey is first class all the way. The bottom line is that like all your tutorials, this one is succinct, well-written and nicely explanatory." Daniel Anderson—via personal correspondence.

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