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Hello all I hope someone can help me with a problem that I seem to have always had with my images - I seem to (almost) always have these odd artifacts around stars. The attached images shows what I mean. There's two issues - the first is the bright saturated blue highlight at the top of the brighter...

Huh, you appear to be correct. I tried masking out most of the image and the processing time skyrockets. I am sure that the reason this has gone un-noticed though is that this is not a common way to use the wipe module - you'd normally want to mask out some sort of dark artefacts like dust bunnies ...

I'm having the same problem with wipe when a mask is present, it's unbelievably slow, to the point that it's useless with a mask. I had originally thought that StarTools was just crashing, but it's not, it just takes a really long time. I tested it today with a 5500 x 3600 TIFF file. Without a mask ...