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Watch for that.Photomatix Pro is a software to create stunning photographs of high contrast scenes. The newer software requires an activation routine from the author's website before they can work and get needed support from them! The brick stores sometimes has discount sales separate from Adobe. Warning of obtaining Photoshop and other newer versions of software: Get it from their site or the brick stores! not from Joe Blow from those "auction" sites. separate images opened in fits and layered for color channels. Photoshop CS3: Opening of the finished Luminance image to use in the CCD Soft color combine and the tweaking of the LRGB combined image plus layering of the recently acquired H-alpha narrowband channel, some RGB without Lum. Maxim DL: Calibration, aligning and stacking (Add or Sigma combine of separate color images) and tif to fits conversion of the finished Lum image to open into CCD Soft for color combine. I also Do asteroid confirmations and searches with that. The Sky6 Pro Planetarium software throws the telescope info into thr Fits header. Constant learning curve, hold on tight!ĬCD Soft: Acquisition of images. Some of these processing tools did not exist 3 years ago! we're still evolving! It showed when I redid images I done 7 years ago. Even with some, you need longer exposures for the dim, outlying stuff you have to layer in. You will need additional programs for that. Also, you can make shorter exposures and add them without saturating the galaxy cores. It is best to do images as much as you can in the native format as you know.
PHOTOMATIX PRO 4 MOVIE
The CS version can support all functions in 16 bit, some in 32 bit, more on the 32 bit if you buy the Extended CS, actually a waste of money here unless you're a pro doing multiple HST images or advanced 3D still and movie graphics! You have to convert to 8 bit here for the rest. Some of the basic stuff in the upper functions (brightness, contrast, histogram, sharpen) will work. In Elements the image will open and save in 16 bit tiff, but the functions in the left toolbar will not work, except zoom. Go back and redo.Īfter you adjusted everything, you click OK and it will open in the photoshop window for more tweaking. This tells you that it is overly dark clipped and the problem is may be the the dark frame has the wrong exposure time or wrong temperature setting when you subtracted it from the light. The areas marked in red means you got pixels that are a negative number, not fixable here if you got a lot of them. This will color code the image for dark and light clipping areas. There is 3 checkoff boxes in the "Mark in preview" box in the window to be filled. The image will open in the Liberator window, You select the contour, adjust the histogram sliders to rid of the brightness saturation and dark clipping levels in the preview box. It has ten logarithmic brightness contours to choose from when the Liberator opens your image before it imports it into any of the Photoshop family above Elements 2 and Photoshop 7. I got the Elements 7 for 79 bucks in the box at one of those two "Office" chains on sale three months ago.Īll 3 of those accepts the free Fits Liberator plug-in. I got the Elements 7 for the downstairs computer, the Elements 3 on my laptop.
PHOTOMATIX PRO 4 UPGRADE
You can get Photoshop Elements 7 for $140 now and MAY upgrade to the latest CS version later.