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Old 20-09-2005, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by plasmodium
I would touch it with a bit of contrast or unsharp mask in photoshop - make it pop
I tried to duplicate what Ice showed me on the last one:
Ran a HighPass filter on a duplicated layer, pulled the transperance down to %30 or so, then flattened. Hit it with an unsharpen filter, converted to greyscale, then bumped the contrast up and brightness down a bit.

I'm sure the settings on the filters could be improved - it took a bit of trial and error to get it where I liked it.

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Originally Posted by plasmodium
I'll need to play with HArtmanns to help mine I think....
COngrats again....
Man, its the best 30 cents I've spent in a long time . I did up a printout using Visio, ran it off on the laserjet at work, cut stuff to size, laid it over a posterboard, traced it, then cut again - took all of 10 minutes.

It easily saved me 10 minutes of trying to tweak the focus

I didn't even have a bright star nearby to use, but just using it on the moon helps a ton. You can really see when you've got focus nailed just by watching the edge of the disk.

I can't recomend it enough!

Thanks for the feedback and help fellas!!!
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