Cleaner backgrounds, less ghosting, and some StackCheck fixups!

Version 2026.09.26

Cleaner, less noisy backgrounds
Smooth out-of-focus areas used to hold on to more sensor noise than they should. Those areas now come out cleaner, while your subject's detail is left alone.

Cleaner edges around your subject
A faint halo could show up in the soft band right at your subject's edge. That edge now comes out cleaner.

Ghosting and doubled edges are improved
Parts of your subject could come out drawn twice, with a faint second copy beside the first. That's much better now in many kinds of stacks.

StackCheck flags fewer good frames
StackCheck could suggest you drop frames that were shot at exactly the same exposure as the rest. Now it doesn't.

The StackCheck badge survives a restack.
It used to disappear from the file until the next time you opened Macro Studio.

Preferences opens right away on Windows
There used to be a delay in many cases. Now it's immediate.

The FOLDERS list follows a rename.
Rename one of your folders in Finder or Explorer, and Macro Studio keeps up instead of showing "(missing)".

Other stacking improvements were made to the blending algorithm to produce even better results.