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I will do my best to do that in the next few days. After that I will be away for 2 weeks though. If time is tight you may not get it until I return. Thanks for following up.

Richard

Sorry I have to keep changing my story. After healing with highlights/threshold on 1.3, the image corrupts after applying the contrast module.

I tend to do a lot of work with stars removed from the foreground. I often wish I could do a second pass of noise reduction - especially if I had made some additions stretches. Some photoshop experts use an inverted mask to do their noise removal routine. Can that be achieved with startools? Actuall...

I normally heal stars with the default mask setting. In one particular image I felt I also needed to remove some small galaxies as well. I used "highlights-threshold. However when I tried to open the healed image I found it corrupted - way over stretched and contrasted. I tried this on both the alpa...

For some reason the attachment didn’t come through.- ah too big. For this post to make any sense you have to see a lot of detail so I'll post a flickr link.

shark by richard_konrad, on Flickr

Hi I'm part of the dslr_astro_image_processing group on yahoo. They provide sample images and advise as how to improve processing. There's not many who use Startools and the moderators have advice mainly relating to photoshop or images plus. I've been working one one particularly fine piece of data ...

I, too, am upgrading. I've got a i3-4130@3.4x2 with 8 gigs memory on linux. It's running very slowly and I need to bin most images so processing doesn't take too l long. Upgrading processor is too expensive but I may buy more memory to a total of 24 gigs. Would this be a good option or should I wait...