Photoshop 2014 stacking, photo merge not working properly. Merge does a crappy job of it and stacking doesn't do anything. Symptoms: once I have sent a group of images from Lightroom to Photoshop 2014 as layers and run the blend for stacking on the selected layers, all I get is one image with a focus mask and all the other layers have a solid black mask, thus no focus stacking effect. The photo merge works, but only slightly. What i get is basically a mask on each layer that defines the outer edge of each image and does a slight blend. About the quality of CS3 when photo merge was first introduced. My workflow now is to send the images to Ps2014, align them, save the layered doc (so they will show in my Lightroom catalog), open the doc in PsCC and do the merge or stack. Works perfectly. I have noticed that the dialog box in Ps2014 for blending looks like a beta window: no colors in the graphics, and the OK button is not blue (but it does activate with the enter key). I have thought of uninstalling and reinstalling, but not sure how to do that with the Creative Cloud. I don't want to loose one of my licenses.
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