The  Pro version of Helicon Focus offers you a powerful feature of processing many image stacks in batch mode.

On the Parameters tab you can either process the images at once ( ) or you can queue the task and process several task later ( ).

Editing queue and starting batch processing

You can check which tasks were added to the queue. Press F7 or call the menu command File\Queue... to see the list of tasks to be processed.

In the Queue dialog you can remove one or all tasks and start batch processing with Start button.

Setting queue options

Before starting the batch processing please check the parameters on the Options tab in the Queue dialog.

Here you can select the output file format, the output directory and the output name.

By default the output images are saved in the subdirectory of source directory with the name "Focused".

The output name is created based on date, time and processing parameters.

Starting the batch processing

Press the Start button in the Queue dialog.

You will see a progress bar for the current task and for the whole queue.
You will also see a preview of the first image in the current task. In the report window, the list of processed images is shown.

Completed tasks are removed from the queue.

You can stop processing and close the program at any time. The queue contents will be saved and you will be able to continue processing later.

Please note, that resulting images are also saved in the output list on the Parameters  tab. You can select one of the resulting images there and retouch it. You will not be able to do this after you exit the program!