From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>
Date: December 2, 2005 4:52:10 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Camera for guiding
David:
I realize this is pretty old news now, but I only just got around to trying to install CS2 on
more than one of my macs at work, and am told that I need to transfer the authorization
from my first Mac to the second one before it will work. So in my case I can't use CS2 on
more than one computer. I would have to pay for a second lisence.
planetarily,
-Tim.
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tjp314@p...> wrote:
David:
Well, I only tried it once, and once I'd activated it on the first
computer, I was not able to install it on the 2nd. I'll take another
look at that, to see if it might have been something else that
prevented it from installing.
-Tim.
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "David Illig" <yag@d...> wrote:
Much of what you have said is obviously true, or is your opinion, so
I can't quibble with it.
I will point out one small factual error, however -- Adobe CS2,
including Photoshop, may
be installed on two computers. The license, as before, permits
operation one computer at
a time.
David
Tim:
As a professional, I've used Photoshop since version 1.6. It's a
great program, but it's
rather expensive (and nowadays, you can't install it on more than
one computer,
whereas
before you just couldn't RUN it on more than one computer at a
time).
For home use, particularly on my PC so far, I've downloaded the
GIMP (http://
www.gimp.org/), which has many photoshop functions but is free.
It's available for Mac
OS X as well, but I've not been able to get it to install on my
new Powerbook with 10.4
yet
(get a "needs X11" message, but I can't install that from Apple
due to another error I get
but can't recall at the moment).
As far as Registax on the Mac. I've used Registax on my PC with
my ToUcam Pro for the
past few years before I saw the note in S&T about Astro IIDC.
Since it became available,
I've not taken the ToUcam out of the box, though for the first few
months, I had only an
Aplux firewire camera to work with.
I've experimented with processing videos taken with the color Flea
camera and
processed
in Astro IIDC, versus Registax 3 (after exporting as AVI files and
running Registax via
Virtual PC on my Mac), and I will say that I get much better
quality images via Astro IIDC
than I can with Registax. I haven't tried the video software that
shipped with the
camera,
though (for PCs), and it is possible that the results might differ
that way.
Over all, though, I find Astro IIDC to be more user-friendly and
capable than Registax,
so
I've not felt much of a pull to fall back on Registax since I
really got serious with the Flea
and Astro IIDC.
-Tim.