I know some people do all their processing in Photoshop but I always use a more dedicated astro tool for the main processing and then Photoshop, or Lightroom, for final tweaks.
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Is there any other newbie Astro processing software which is easy to navigate and use ?
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Startools is awesome, and well priced. That would be my recommendation if you're not into PI.
Startools, unlike PI, doesn't stack images so you'll need to use DeepSkyStacker or something as a first step.
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My pet hate is monthly subscriptions, I much prefer a one off payment ( if I have no choice but to buy software )
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I think this is the main reason that people are leaving Adobe for Affinity Photo and Designer.
Also as mentioned Paint Shop Pro is good, at least it was 15 years ago when I last used it
And if you really don't want to spend money then Gimp is very powerful, though it used to be quite painful to use but it might be better these days.
My advice would be to get Startools and see how far you can take an image within it first. Then you'll have a idea of the kinds of tweaks you need to make to your images after you've done all you can in Startools and then you can determine if Gimp will do or if you need something better
