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Originally Posted by rat156
OK Ivo,
How do I use it? Please be gentle I'm a windows dummy. I have downloaded the .exe and placed this in the Windows folder.
Where does the image have to be?
Cheers
Stuart
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Hi Stuart,
StarLess is a command-line utility (you might remember them from the old DOS days
)
You probably want to move it out of the Windows folder (it'll work but that folder is really only meant for Windows Operating System specific components - putting stuff there is frowned upon by the techies
).
So let's create a folder in the root directory of your C drive for now. You can just do this from the file manager (aka 'explorer') which you can call up by pressing the windows key on your keyboard and the 'E' key at the same time.
Just navigate to your C drive's root folder and create a folder named 'StarLess' or similar (left click, create folder).
Once you've created the folder, copy StarLess.exe into there. You can also put a test image in there (48-bit/16-bit-per-channel color TIFF) for convenience.
Now for the 'good old DOS' bit...
Click Start, Choose 'Run', type 'cmd' and press enter.
Woohooo, it's DOS in a little window!
In the window, type 'cd \' and press enter. You're now in the root directory of your C drive. Type 'cd starless' (or whatever folder you created).
Let's assume you also put an image in the 'starless' folder called 'M20.tiff'. In that case, you can run starless by typing
'starless --in=M20.tiff' and it should do its magic.
Simply typing 'starless' and pressing enter will show a short overview of other commands starless accepts, so you can finetune your result.
One day I'll create a nice graphical user interface for all StarTools, but currently I'm focusing on creating new algorithms and keeping things multi-platform (StarTools also works on Linux and MacOS).
If the above doesn't work for you, or if you have any trouble, just shoot me a PM me, contact me through my site or just ask in this thread!
