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Thanks, Rick. I'll check it out.
George "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... 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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On 10/25/2010 11:10 PM, George wrote:
Thanks, Rick. I'll check it out. I find it best to run HLVG on the RGB image just before combining with the L image. If done after the combine sometimes a galaxy will dim considerably. Why I can't fathom. Author who was one of the main AIC speakers this year, mentions this on the website. If the combine has been made then copy the combine to a second layer, run HLVG on the top layer then recombine in color mode. The dimmed object will return to normal intensity level again. He as a couple other free ones as well but I do those things another way. HLVG can help a lot of color balance issues even when green isn't the obvious problem. Now if you have a green object it will be deadly as it doesn't allow them to be selected out. I found an easy work around. Just before running on the RGB image make a duplicate layer. In that layer use the magic wand or ellipse tool to select the green object in the upper layer. Now press Control-X. You have just copied the green object to the clipboard. That is of no importance. What is important is that you also cut it out from the upper layer. Now run HLVG on that upper layer then flatten the image. The green object will be preserved while the overall color balance is improved. Rick George "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... 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
Neat trick. I'll have to try that some time. Thanks, Rick.
George "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ter.com... On 10/25/2010 11:10 PM, George wrote: Thanks, Rick. I'll check it out. I find it best to run HLVG on the RGB image just before combining with the L image. If done after the combine sometimes a galaxy will dim considerably. Why I can't fathom. Author who was one of the main AIC speakers this year, mentions this on the website. If the combine has been made then copy the combine to a second layer, run HLVG on the top layer then recombine in color mode. The dimmed object will return to normal intensity level again. He as a couple other free ones as well but I do those things another way. HLVG can help a lot of color balance issues even when green isn't the obvious problem. Now if you have a green object it will be deadly as it doesn't allow them to be selected out. I found an easy work around. Just before running on the RGB image make a duplicate layer. In that layer use the magic wand or ellipse tool to select the green object in the upper layer. Now press Control-X. You have just copied the green object to the clipboard. That is of no importance. What is important is that you also cut it out from the upper layer. Now run HLVG on that upper layer then flatten the image. The green object will be preserved while the overall color balance is improved. Rick George "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ster.com... 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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