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Originally Posted by graham.hobart
that is a cracking shot Adam-would love to know the PI routine as I get lost in that programme too but I do think you nailed it in PI-any tips?
Graz
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Hi Graham. That's really kind, thanks very much!
Still very much a newbie to PI, but this is my flow as it stands. First thing, is to make sure you download the EZ Processing Suite through PI as that really helps and can be a "one touch" solution for many tasks.
Secondly the below is a rough guide for a colour camera. I can't explain which buttons to click on every window because to be honest, PI is really poor at explaining it, and I don't get it myself. When do you click the green tick? When do you drag the triangle over to your image? I've no idea. It's a UI nightmare.
For instance for DynamicCrop I use the green tick because it's there. The other windows don't have it there, so I use the triangle? That's good UI......
Linear workflow:
-A quick unlinked StreenTransferFunction (STF) stretch to see what I'm working with
- DynamicCrop to cut out the nasties
- BackgroundNeutralization (the defaults work well, but feel free to play around)
- Another STF
- ColourCalibration (again, the defaults work well but play around if you want)
- SNR
- EZ Deconvolution. This is where I have run into issues as I can't actually see a difference. But basically you need to create a Star Mask, a PSF image on the Decon tab, and then check for differences with a "practise" run. This is in theory, but I haven't got it working in practise yet.
From there, I do a de-noise through EZ Denoise. Use the Evaluate EZ Denoise Run button to test out different settings before clicking Run EZ Denoise to apply that to your image.
EZ Soft-Stretch to take it non-linear. This is a good stretching plugin!
EZ HDR - defaults work well. Not always required but for M42 it definitely is.
Next, EZ Star Reduction (by now you can tell I like the EZ Suite
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Then I save it and take it into Photoshop to have a play around with contrast and colours.