Hi David
Thanks for that. I had a look at a review of both Helicon Focus and CombineZ5 at:
http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_72/essay.html
and it seemed that Helicon was the easier to use, so I downloaded it first and was sufficiently impressed such that I’ll investigate CombineZ5 further now, as I was initially put off by its steep learning curve, according to the reviewer.
Helicon can open my Canon CR2 Raw files as well as Photoshop PSDS files, which was quite nice. It also has a very easy to use user interface, although it really challenged my 4 year old P4 3.4Ghz with 2G RAM when crunching through the numbers.
Cheers
Dennis