We all have many different ways to control the color, size, and profiles of stars in our astro-images. For several years I have been using a prototype of a Photoshop plugin filter written by Russ Croman (Author of GradientX) called Star Shrink. I thought I would share a tutorial I just completed on the basics of using this amazing but easy to use filter. I believe you may find this interesting . . . .
http://www.rc-astro.com/resources/St.../tutorial.html
Kindest Regards,
Ken Crawford