[gregbradley]

I predominantly use CCDstack and Photoshop for image processing. I use PI a little (DBE, morphological transform to round stars etc).

Photoshop allows plugins which are very handy and some are really useful.

I am wanting to know what plug ins you have found good for Photoshop.

A couple I use are:

Noel Carboni actions - still super useful and some of the best. Deep space noise reduction is very good, select brighter stars is a fast way to make a star mask, increase star colour is a quick way of improving star colour.

NoiseNinja. Quite a good noise reduction plugin but best used with a layer hide all mask as it can make images look plastic easily.

Focus Magic. Several sharpening tools but a tiny bit goes a long way - very harsh.

Topaz adust. Can improve colours a lot if you want to boost them. But it will also increase background colour noise so again best done with a mask to keep the background clean.

Topaz has several plugins. One for denoise - not sure how good it is.
Lightroom has excellent noise reduction sliders. Perhaps the best I have seen.

What noise reduction plugins have you found to be good?

Gradient Xterminator from Russell Croman is still a good tool. I often use the apply image type gradient removal approach but that can be touchy if you don't make a very even smooth blurred no detail image that shows only the light gradients. It can create gradients if done poorly.

Greg.