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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
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....Found while cruz'g the internet year or two ago, source UnKwn... .. ....Installation, Easy, Copy to the following directiory: x:\Adobe\PhotoShopCS-vXX\Presets\Actions .. IIIDaemon |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
"Joseph Schmosovich" wrote in message 31... . ...Found while cruz'g the internet year or two ago, source UnKwn... . ...Installation, Easy, Copy to the following directiory: x:\Adobe\PhotoShopCS-vXX\Presets\Actions . IIIDaemon Hi. Could you give us a bit of information on this attachment, what it does, how to access it in photoshop, etc? TIA George |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
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....my apologies.. I found these on the internet a coupla years ago and basically forgot about them.. i found 2 copies with 2 diff copyrights and dates, they seemed to be the exact same thing, but i did not go thru each of the 'Actions/Macros' to verify they are the same or whether there have been slight modifications.. if your concern is viral i can tell you this: these are Adobe PhotoShop Actions which are basically Macro's.. these actions/macro are mearly recorded steps in applying filters and layers.. i suppose there is a point where a a dozen diff combinations of filters 'might' crash PhotoShop, but i've never seen it happen, these macro's will not infect your system.. once copied to the proper directory they are loaded along with the default photoshop actions and filters.. they cannot be executed any other way.. again once loaded they reside on the PhotoShop Tool Palettes, mine is next to the Hisory Group/Palette.. they are labled and are pretty self explanatory i.e. Reduce Large Halos, Reduce Small Halos..etc.., i have only tried the Reduce Halos and only on one image, from that extensive test it seemed to work fairly well, it did effect the entire image slightly but it worked.. i'm certain if one was so inclined they could go in and tweek these, which after i recover from the marathon photoshop session i just pulled on my M33 i might try ;] , again i apologize for the lack of info in my original post, i've been 'playing' with photoshop since v1.0 and just assumed... .. Install: copy the *.atn file to the following directory: x:\Adobe\PhotoShopCS-vXX\Presets\Actions Construct RGB Image from Channel Files - Create RGB from mono filtered files Synthesize Green Channel from Red and Blue - Create synthetic green channel Soft Color Gradient Removal - Remove a color gradient across the image Hard Color Gradient Removal - Remove a more severe color gradient Light Pollution Removal - Remove light pollution gradient Select Brighter Stars - Select stars in your image for further processing Make Stars Smaller - Make bloated stars smaller, bring out DSOs Less Crunchy More Fuzzy - smooth oversharpened images, bring out star color Space Noise Reduction - Noise reduction for the darker areas of the image Deep Space Noise Reduction - Noise reduction only in the darkest parts Color Blotch Reduction - Remove only color noise, leaving fine detail intact Horizontal Banding Noise Reduction - Removes horizontal pattern noise Vertical Banding Noise Reduction - Removes vertical pattern noise Fade Sharpen to Mostly Lighten - Get rid of dark circles around stars Reduce Small Blue/Violet Halos - Desaturate and darken halos around stars Reduce Large Blue/Violet Halos - Desaturate and darken halos around stars Increase Star Color - Brings edge color into whited-out stars Local Contrast Enhancement - Increase contrast between dark and light Lighten Only DSO and Dimmer Stars - Lighten while keeping bright stars tight Enhance DSO and Reduce Stars - Make hard stars softer and lighten dim stuff B&W - Ha False Color - Convert to color as through Hydrogen Alpha filter B&W - Ha False Color Black Space - As above but with blacker deep space B&W - OIII False Color - Convert to color as through Oxygen III filter B&W - OIII False Color Black Space - As above but with blacker deep space Star Diffraction Spikes Tiny Stars - Put diffraction spikes on most stars Star Diffraction Spikes Small Stars - Put diffraction spikes on many stars Star Diffraction Spikes Medium Stars - Put diffraction spikes on larger stars Star Diffraction Spikes Fat Stars - Put diffraction spikes on largest stars Astro Frame - Add a background color border with room for caption .. IIIDaemon http://www.GasRecovery.net .. DLpSv508 Chip Douglas Expiration date: 25Dec2013 0JW34MVV8TXW4YSX3HX73U4SAC8 .. Hi. Could you give us a bit of information on this attachment, what it does, how to access it in photoshop, etc? TIA George |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
Those are Noel Carboni's actions and are protected. You are breaking
the law using them without paying for them. They are cheap enough. Pay the $22 for them rather than steal them. http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/As...l_Version.html Rick On 10/19/2010 4:45 PM, Joseph Schmosovich wrote: . ...Found while cruz'g the internet year or two ago, source UnKwn... . ...Installation, Easy, Copy to the following directiory: x:\Adobe\PhotoShopCS-vXX\Presets\Actions . IIIDaemon -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
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....i have stolen nothing, in fact i explained that... .. Rick Johnson wrote in news:4cbfe2c1$0$17793 : Those are Noel Carboni's actions and are protected. You are breaking the law using them without paying for them. They are cheap enough. Pay the $22 for them rather than steal them. http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/As...l_Version.html Rick On 10/19/2010 4:45 PM, Joseph Schmosovich wrote: . ...Found while cruz'g the internet year or two ago, source UnKwn... . ...Installation, Easy, Copy to the following directiory: x:\Adobe\PhotoShopCS-vXX\Presets\Actions . IIIDaemon |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
If you didn't pay for them they are stolen. It is also illegal to give
them freely as you have done. The fact someone else acted illegally distributing them doesn't change that. That's what the copyright means. If you paid for them you of course have the right to use them BUT NOT to distribute them to others. Rick On 10/21/2010 7:36 AM, Joseph Schmosovich wrote: . ...i have stolen nothing, in fact i explained that... . Rick wrote in news:4cbfe2c1$0$17793 : Those are Noel Carboni's actions and are protected. You are breaking the law using them without paying for them. They are cheap enough. Pay the $22 for them rather than steal them. http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/As...l_Version.html Rick On 10/19/2010 4:45 PM, Joseph Schmosovich wrote: . ...Found while cruz'g the internet year or two ago, source UnKwn... . ...Installation, Easy, Copy to the following directiory: x:\Adobe\PhotoShopCS-vXX\Presets\Actions . IIIDaemon -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
"Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... If you didn't pay for them they are stolen. It is also illegal to give them freely as you have done. The fact someone else acted illegally distributing them doesn't change that. That's what the copyright means. If you paid for them you of course have the right to use them BUT NOT to distribute them to others. Rick I'm glad you pointed this out, Rick. I thought what he had posted was simply someone's presets that they had devised. So I guess I 'll be deleting it. No big deal. Never figured out how to access them anyway. George |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
On 10/21/2010 12:43 PM, George wrote:
"Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... If you didn't pay for them they are stolen. It is also illegal to give them freely as you have done. The fact someone else acted illegally distributing them doesn't change that. That's what the copyright means. If you paid for them you of course have the right to use them BUT NOT to distribute them to others. Rick I'm glad you pointed this out, Rick. I thought what he had posted was simply someone's presets that they had devised. So I guess I 'll be deleting it. No big deal. Never figured out how to access them anyway. George There are some very useful free plugins for PS out there. This isn't one of them. Hasta Lavista Green is a great one for instance. I use it on nearly all my images. Can really help color balance when a faint green sky glow screws things up which is quite common at my latitude. But even then the author only authorizes it for personal use and not distribution requiring that come only from his website. That ensures you get the latest version and access to instructions though those aren't really needed. In the case of Carboni's astronomy tools these actions are very useful and well worth the $23 or so he is asking for them. A one man operation can't have a legal department to enforce his product license. Such actions are not easily protected, he has to rely on the honesty of his customers. The actions are specific to each version of PS. So those for CS won't work on CS2 or any other version though in some cases they will appear to, usually something isn't right and the action doesn't work as it should. That might be why you couldn't get them to work. I found their main usefulness was in teaching me the finer points of PS. By looking at each step of the action I learned a lot and how to make actions better tuned to my imaging. They are a one size fits all type of thing and this is fine if your imaging needs fit, mine usually didn't. But I learned how to make them that do. Far cheaper than the $100 CDs out there. The price is certainly very reasonable for what I gained out of them. I don't use noise reduction at least in the sense most mean by the term. But many swear by his two noise reduction routines as worth the cost alone. I prefer my system but it is more time consuming than just clicking one of his actions. If you have preserved star color by not allowing stars to come near saturation either when imaged or during processing then his increase star color action is very good. I do sometimes still use it when in a hurry. If color data is poor in that the star sizes vary for a white star then the routine can hurt rather than help but when all three channels are equal as to FWHM it works great. The ability to create a synthetic green channel is great for making color images from the POSS red and blue FITS images. There are many other actions but they aren't ones I use but many do. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
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....Rick i understood perfectly what you said and what you were implying, i held my tongue out of respect to the others in this group.. however since you insist on 'making your point' i'll do the same.. "Go **** Yourself Pal' i suppose you have verified they are in fact the same before you started spewing your acusations and alegations.. this set of actions or macros are only time savers, they add no function or feature to photoshop, if this person sells them well '..theres a sucker born every minute..' and btw the majority of them are useless in my opinion anyway, again, there is nothing unique in function or code with these, the fact that this person spent the time to compile them may in his mind justify the 22$ and what i believe to be a ficticuos 'Copyright'anyway, but if i go in and "reComplie" them, change the names it would then become a different 'product' wouldn't it, given inflation and the apparent need for a step-by-step user & installation manual maybe i could get 32$ for it, in my opinion copying these macros and editing them for my or anyone elses personal use is absolutly no diff than what you do on almost every image i've seen you post i.e. the sky atlas data, so.., let me reiterate, "Go **** Yourself Pal"... .. ....I honestly hope that i havn't ****ed off any1 that has tried to help me out.. i was only trying to do the same.. these supposed know it alls and gaurdians of the internet really **** me off when they start to spew their holier than thou horse ****... .. ....one other lil time saver i'll add.. if you or any1 else wanting to ride your soap-box/band-wagon wants to flame me.. please.. dont waste your keystrokes.. seriously... .. IIIDaemon "George" wrote in news:t- : "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... If you didn't pay for them they are stolen. It is also illegal to give them freely as you have done. The fact someone else acted illegally distributing them doesn't change that. That's what the copyright means. If you paid for them you of course have the right to use them BUT NOT to distribute them to others. Rick I'm glad you pointed this out, Rick. I thought what he had posted was simply someone's presets that they had devised. So I guess I 'll be deleting it. No big deal. Never figured out how to access them anyway. George |
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ASTRO: AstroTools - PhotoShop Action(s) - 1 attachment
Yes, of course, I did compare them to the set I lawfully purchased. As
you noted they are copyright protected. Far from flaming you I was just pointing out that these weren't free to use actions from a legal point of view as you incorrectly stated. Those who respect the rights of others, like George, appreciated learning this. I thought you might as well, apparently not. I don't agree that if someone illegally puts something on the net that gives others, such as yourself, the right to use it. You are free to disagree. Copyright law supports my position, only vulgarities support yours it appears. I was just pointing out to those who care about the rights of others that this was Noel Carboni's work. Easily verified by loading your attachment into notepad as that info is easy to read in the very first lines. Or it can be verified by going to his website I linked to. I quote from your attachments first lines: "A s t r o n o m y T o o l s P S C S 2 v 1 _ 5 - C o p y r i g h t 2 0 0 6 - N o e l C a r b o n i ." If it makes me a sucker to respect the US copyright law in your mind then so be it. In my mind it makes me an honest supporter of amateur astrophotography. I sleep well. Your resort to vulgarity tells me all I need to know about you and your inability to defend your position. Rick On 10/21/2010 8:38 PM, Joseph Schmosovich wrote: . ...Rick i understood perfectly what you said and what you were implying, i held my tongue out of respect to the others in this group.. however since you insist on 'making your point' i'll do the same.. "Go **** Yourself Pal' i suppose you have verified they are in fact the same before you started spewing your acusations and alegations.. this set of actions or macros are only time savers, they add no function or feature to photoshop, if this person sells them well '..theres a sucker born every minute..' and btw the majority of them are useless in my opinion anyway, again, there is nothing unique in function or code with these, the fact that this person spent the time to compile them may in his mind justify the 22$ and what i believe to be a ficticuos 'Copyright'anyway, but if i go in and "reComplie" them, change the names it would then become a different 'product' wouldn't it, given inflation and the apparent need for a step-by-step user& installation manual maybe i could get 32$ for it, in my opinion copying these macros and editing them for my or anyone elses personal use is absolutly no diff than what you do on almost every image i've seen you post i.e. the sky atlas data, so.., let me reiterate, "Go **** Yourself Pal"... . ...I honestly hope that i havn't ****ed off any1 that has tried to help me out.. i was only trying to do the same.. these supposed know it alls and gaurdians of the internet really **** me off when they start to spew their holier than thou horse ****... . ...one other lil time saver i'll add.. if you or any1 else wanting to ride your soap-box/band-wagon wants to flame me.. please.. dont waste your keystrokes.. seriously... . IIIDaemon wrote in news:t- : "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... If you didn't pay for them they are stolen. It is also illegal to give them freely as you have done. The fact someone else acted illegally distributing them doesn't change that. That's what the copyright means. If you paid for them you of course have the right to use them BUT NOT to distribute them to others. Rick I'm glad you pointed this out, Rick. I thought what he had posted was simply someone's presets that they had devised. So I guess I 'll be deleting it. No big deal. Never figured out how to access them anyway. George -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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