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Yeah Martin - no probs!
1) Open in ImagesPlus.
2) Menu: Point/Star Size & Halo Reduction (one notch smaller)
3) Save
4) Open in CS3
5) Menu: Image/Adjustments/Shadow-Highlight
6) Shadows - Amount 10%, Tonal Width 100%, Radius 90px
7) Highlights - Amount 50%, Tonal Width 40%, Radius 100px
8) Adjustments - Colour Correction +25, Midtone Contrast +25
9) OK
10) Menu: Filter/Sharpen
11) Menu: Image/Adjustments/Levels
12) Centre slider to 0.75 (RGB)
13) Menu: Image/ImageSize to 1260px
Done - at least on my monitor. You can fiddle with shadow/highlights tool a lot - it is one of the most powerful in Photoshop.
If you don't have ImagesPlus, then you can do step 2 here within Photoshop itself:
Star Bloat Reduction in Adobe Photoshop
Make sure you've selected the image layer, rather than one of your adjustment layers
1) Use the eyedropper tool to select the color one of the stars that you wish to work on
2) Use "Select/Color Range" to select all similar stars in the picture. You can set the degree over which the color range is selected
3) Use "Select/Modify/Expand" to increase the selection by 2 pixels
4) I then use "Select/Feather" to "blur" the area of the selection by 1 pixel
5) Go under "Filter/Other/Minimum", set the range as low as it can go, i.e., 1 pixel, and apply this filter to the selected stars
6) Generally, the effect is too extreme, so IMMEDIATELY go under "Edit/Fade Minimum Filter" to adjust the amount of this last edit to a more appropriate level.
7) Hit CTL+D to deselect the stars and then hit save.
And there you go!
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