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Old 28-11-2011, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by naskies View Post
Any tips/suggestions?
Cam is giving some great advice. I've attached the sort of results you should be looking for, as well as a sample of a gradient Cam says you should generate using his method.

Alternatively you could use a dedicated tool such as GradientXterminator if you have Photoshop, ABE/DBE if you have PixInsight or Wipe if you have StarTools. If you're not afraid of command-line utils, there's StarTools Wipe's great-great grandpa StarWipe as well which is a free download (he's getting on though ). If you use StarWipe or Cam's method then make sure you crop that stacking artifact (dark line) at the bottom as they don't constitute 'real' dark pixels - they're artifical.

Cheers,
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