I don't know how useful FOCUS Projects will be, or if it'll be useful to me at all. The premise of the software is that if you want good depth of field, meaning everything in focus, you take multiple shots, each focusing on a different element in your frame. Why not just use a smaller lens opening when you take the photo to accomplish the same thing much easier? One possible answer is that there's not enough light to shoot handheld unless you use the largest lens opening possible. But here I would think you'd get a classic catch 22...
If you shoot multiple shots handheld, focusing on different elements each shot, odds are they're not going to line up, not going to match if you stick them on separate layers to combine them. SO ideally you'd fix the camera position, e.g. use a tripod, which means you could have made the shot with the smaller lens opening to start with. ;) Or you might have been able to just add more light. That said, as I mentioned on the comments page, camera sensors can sometimes go a bit wonky with longer exposures, so maybe there's a use for FOCUS Projects there?
I also worry that, depending on the camera, many people would find it difficult to focus on different parts of the image. To do it right manually with my camera I have to go to a special screen that zooms in so I can see the focus more accurately, but a lot of cameras force you to use auto-focus, which means finding something at the same distance, locking the auto-focus on that, & then going back to your original frame to take the shot. Again, multiple shots are not going to line up. Maybe it doesn't matter, & the software compensates well enough, but will that "well enough" be really sharp?
And of course a lot [the majority?] of cameras, including many on cells, don't have a large enough lens opening to have a problem with little or no depth of field in the 1st place -- that's why bokeh filters are popular, imitating the effect of a larger lens opening.
Oh well... I'll see what & how & if later... For now I wanted to put FOCUS Projects on this PC. 1st step of course is getting the ID & key, which is the usual FRANZIS affair. I have my own way of installing FRANZIS software -- whether it's worth it or not for you is of course up to you. To get the key you have to fire up the downloaded installation app, which expands the real setup app in the temp folder, today being FOCUS projects professional DE_EN_FR Setup.exe. I expand that using the Universal Extractor I mentioned in another post. The results include a file in plain text containing the directions for the setup app, in this case saying file names with a .1 added = 64 bit, .2=32. So I rename the folder with the app, delete all the .2 files, & remove .1 from the 8 that are left. Expanding the setup file got me a bunch of folders, most of which contain different plugins, many of which are duplicates. I move one of each non-duplicate plugin into the program's folder. Now I copy the program folder wherever I want, & Done.
Why do it that way?... The main reason for extracting the real setup file for me is to get to the plugins. FRANZIS setup won't detect every graphics app I have that can use them, nor will it extract every plugin, & the way it works nowadays is sometimes the plugin copied to the right folder works, & sometimes a shortcut to the program's folder with the plugins works. Besides, I don't want to clutter up the FX menus in my apps with stuff that doesn't work, & I have no idea yet whether FOCUS Projects works. A side benefit is I prevent the already hugely bloated Windows\ WinSxS\ folder from becoming yet even beefier -- yeah, FOCUS Projects adds runtimes... otherwise it's not badly behaved.
Note: Because I was going to post this, including brief directions on how I do it, I fired up Time Freeze, installed FOCUS Proects normally, saved the results, then rebooted to restore everything. Comparing the 2, no difference.