Atronomy software by Noel Carboni

[Carl]

Hi folks
Has anyone come across Astronomy Tools - Astro image Processing Photoshop Actions by ProDigital Software - Noel Carboni
Went to his site actions.home.att.net/Astronomy_Tools.html and it looks impressive. I run Photoshop CS and the tools look pretty cool.
Any comments?
Regards
Carl

[nightsky]

G'Day Carl,
Very interesting but your link don't work:P should be
http://actions.home.att.net/Astronomy_Tools.html
also I saw your other post regarding uploading a image,if you have a look here it may help,
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?home
it's just below the image of Eta "FTP" site
Cheers
Arthur

[allan gould]

I have purchased his tool set and I find that they really are brilliant. They do exactly as advertsed and he was great to deal with. The price of his tools is very good and I recommend them

[Phil]

i have then to they are great to use.
Phil

[joe_smith]

Same here and very happy :) with them

[Carl]

Thankyou I'll probably go and order it right now

Carl

[ballaratdragons]

Those of you who have said that you already have the program, do you think it would improve an image like this one of mine?

[Rigel003]

Here is one of my images of the same object that has had some post processing with Noel's Photoshop actions.

http://www.pbase.com/rigel003/image/77443259

Among the useful routines here would be reducing star diameters,removing background noise and colour gradients. I've found it can be a bit tempting to run too many of these actions and end up with a photo which is not very naturalistic looking. Nevertheless it's cheap and definitely worth trying.

[ballaratdragons]

Nice Graeme, but I don't know what your original looked like to compare the finished product with.

Is it possible to make my original any better or is it beyond help even with Noels program?

[Portmac]

Maybe....my attempt but I think I overdid it a bit :)

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks for trying.

I can see that the noise has gone and that the image is softer, but no visible improvement on the blue neb. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

[5ash]

I too use astronomy tools and one improvement it could make straight away to your image of the triffid nebula is to reduce the size of those "Blobby" stars.As i dont fully understand all that photoshop has to offer this set of action tools does things in photoshop that i would never be able to do without a great deal of training.
philip
ps i do like your image!

[Harpspitfire]

as noel mentioned to me, he does put alot of work into these ATN,s- explaining that the ATN has to work in generalization-thats why he added the layers for different blending results- usually i find at least one action that will improve an image after stacking and processing- why not send him an email and invite him over here? he's pretty busy right now working with nasa and fits processing- i think he recently added a fits ATN for working with fits liberator, i dont understand this stuff though, its to advanced for me

[g__day]

Well on those recommendations I signed up for it tonight? So how does it come to you - I sent payment via credit card and expected an e-mail link of a secure URL, or the web or paypal to say there's the software - how does the distribution to me work?

Wow that was quick - paypal was supposed to forward me but it just died. However within 5 minutes - unprompted, Noel e-mailed me to say here are the files (glad I hadn't mis-typed the e-mail address!). What stunning service!