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Originally Posted by Garyh
Nice Hanson!
I find selecting the brighter stars then a light minimum filter helps to soften them as well as shrink them a little.
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this works best on a refractor, star spikes will tend to square up the stars a bit , be carefull not to go too hard too early as you will end up with halos around the stars.
the process gary is talking about probably uses Photoshop using
SELECT-COLOR RANGE tool, followed with FILTER -OTHER -MINIMUM. It would pay also to use a feather if you want to try this process, SELECT -FEATHER. it takes a bit of fiddling to make it look natural.
Heres a thought for you to consider,
what appears as wrong, or noisy or not natural may not show up when you resize it to the 200kb limit