Originally posted by UncleVanya I think quite a few people are misreading what you want. If I’m reading you correctly, you want a version of this with all four birds. My guess is that you have the camera set to raw + with a smaller jpg as the SOOC. If I’m reading this right you want to generate a higher resolution version - without losing the birds.
Am I on the right track?
I also think @wanderer2 is delighted by this SOOC capture merge image showing one bird as four. He guessed correctly that it's the result of the 4 capture PSR file.
But he's surprised that a raw converter doesn't show the same four birds as the camera does. So he maybe not very knowledgeable about how PSR works. Others already said that PSR is not possible using every raw converter for developing PSR images. Those raw converters who are not able to, simply only show the first frame - so only one bird.
@wanderer2: unclear for me is your further goal. I can imagine the main two:
1. You want to achieve better image quality by using the raw file (pef or dng) and apply some advanced corrections etc.
If so, you can use RawTherapee (Open Source) and save each of the four frames as 16 bit tiff, and merge these tiff files using Affinity Photo or Photoshop or GIMP ... layer techniques using masks etc. Finally export the high quality image showing your four birds - of course in whatever dimensions you wish.
2. As also already said your SOCC jpg image may have reduced size and you like to have it in sensor pixel dimensions (full size). Quality is ok for you. Maybe you only want to apply minor adjustments.
Then you could try the following. Your camera creates a jpg thumbnail, a preview sized image and a full size jpg image and also puts these into tho raw file container. This image you can extract. By example using Exiftool (open source at least available for Windows, Mac and Linux). When correctly installed you can use the following command within the image folder depending on your raw file type ...
PEF: > exiftool -b -JpgFromRaw -w fullsize/%d%f_.jpg capture.PEF
DNG: > exiftool -b -Copy1:PreviewImage -w fullsize/%d%f_.jpg capture.DNG
Each command extracts the full-sized jpg image that should show the "four" birds. The image is put into a subfolder "full-size".
Good luck - whatever you're editing goal is!
Some additional notes: if PSR is enabled on your camera, HDR is disabled and vice versa. Your raw file contains four frames, so it really is a PSR image. If It would be a HDR capture, the raw file would contain only three frames. PSR captures four frames directly each after the other without predefined shutter delay - at least as far as I know. Another way to get such an image would be a four image interval composite image. It results in one frame within the raw file.