[stevous67 (Steve M)]

I've been trialling Pixinsight and I really do not like the work flow. On the other hand, I have identified two tools that are excellent, whilst many other functions I can achieve the same results in other programs with easier work flow.

I've watched I think all the online videos, and these are absolutely essential to get anywhere. The various masking tools are reasonably good, and simplify their creation. But I particularly do not like the constant comparisons to Photoshop - this is a particularly poor advertising strategy.

I appreciate being able to try this product in advance.

Steve

The PixInsight tools were ACDNR and DBE - Excellent. To expand, I am very familiar with PS, ACDNR is superior to Noise Ninja, a PS plugin, providing very good control of target area selection and visibly, on coarse mono noise, repeatidly showed better smoothing results.

DBE - provides superior background gradient removal, superior in my opinion to Gradientxterminator and various PS techniques.

Will I buy PI, damn, I just did...