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Originally Posted by westsky
Thanks Louie,I have to admit not the best shot I have ever done but not bad with a new toy that I still have to learn.
I D/L a program called Rawshooter essentials
http://www.pixmantec.com/products/ra...ssentials.html
it's free and what it does is allow you to view and process Raw files it then converts to a Tiff or Jpeg.
This is the first time I have tried it and it seems to do a decent job.
The Gui is I guess you would call it "different"
But the program is easy enough to use.
I did a quick and dirty process of the same image here is the result.
The one thing I can't seem to get right is the contrast on the stars, they looked quite ok on the original but are much brighter on this version.
as yet I don't know if this software will stack raw images , I will have a more detailed play with it later.
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Hi David,
First of all, congratulations on a good start with your 350D.
Rawshooter would be OK for conversion and other processing but I'm pretty sure it won't automatically stack your images. You may be able to align and stack them one at a time using layers (as in Photoshop) if it has that feature.
On an earlier question, you do have to convert your RAWs to another format (Tifs or fits, NOT Jpeg) before processing them further. Rawshooter should be useful there. When I convert using Imagesplus, I always choose either Linear conversion or CFA (pre Bayer interpolation). This applies a minimum of processing to the images so that calibration with darks and flats can be more accurate.
Cheers