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Old 30-08-2006, 06:13 PM
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Nice,
I like it.

Registax can be used minimally or in expert hands accomplish all sorts of wonderful things.
I use it minimally....click select, go to your folder of stored images, select all the ones you want to stack (using control click) when done click open
this will load the pics in registacks
if it asks these seem to be in color process in color? go yes.
the make sure you click the checkbox for processsing automatic,
click a reasonably big size for the alignment box, say 128 and the zoom checkbox.

now just pick a nice star, line it up perfectly with the zoom window and left click on it

then go to top left of the screen and left click on "Align" button,

sit back have a nice warm drink,
eventually after it has processed everything you can manipulate the image (i skip that bit myself mainly due to inexperience)
click on the tab "final"
then lower left corner click on "save"

select Tiff or whatever you like

and work that saved image with photoshop or whatever you use for image processing

hope that wasnt too confusing

hope it didnt offend any of the real artists here who can really play with registax.

I just use it basically to line up and stack images.

you can adjust the "lowest quality" setting at the top in quality estimate box to something like 85% to "cull" the less similar images, the higher the number the closer matching to one another the pics will have to be to be stacked.

I often use 85 or 90

best of luck

cheers
frank
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