From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: December 3, 2009 1:27:26 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: new attempt at last month`s Full Moon...


Milton, 

I was afraid you`d say the result was too grainy again! I did find those movies eventually tucked away in another subfolder after having a thorough look (luckily it was near the beginning of the list on my Lacie external HD). So I`ll go back to basics as you suggest. I find with Astro IIDC, I`ll Save As (& I have to keep my wits about me as to what number of version I`m saving- as the window covers the screen & any named things I`ve saved to the desktop) then if I want to reintroduce the picture I`m working on to the processing window to add changes again it does this doubling up thing where it seems to add one lot of settings on top of another! You didn`t refer to my question along the way as to whether in Alan`s resurrected image made from one of mine he`d removed the graininess? Was this because his alterations were done in the (foreign to you) app. Photoshop?I was having trouble with PS until recently where it wouldn`t let me back track if I made 2 steps too far. At least I`ve managed to alter that situation by going to Sharpen> Unsharp Mask then altering the contrast etc. in Levels. I find if I`ve saved to one of PS`s own file forms I can usually go back & alter things again & again. It`s usually just a matter of tweaking a graph! Results done there can then be saved quite easily with Preview or Command- Shift-  4. I get lost with Astro IIDC`s processing window as changes can often be at different ends of scales involving very large figures & unless I take notes about where a favourable outcome was (in terms of combinations of results) I can never find it again! I imagine you have prescriptions in the manual about what to try for different situations/subjects but I find these directions are often in differing regions of the manual & sometimes hard to track down (unless I have one of your painstaking explanations you usually provide so kindly to go by!)


Mark.  

On 04/12/2009, at 4:47 AM, milton_aupperle wrote:



--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@...> wrote:
>I find sometimes when I
> try to re-introduce an image into Astro IIDC`s processing window it
> doubles up the processing (introducing the saved settings over the top
> of my already processed image). With PS I was able to keep going back
> to an image & re-adjusting it. I guess there must be a way of doing
> this in Astro IIDC too.. I just didn`t follow through with it.

Did you notice that it's not "Save" in the image processing window, it's "Save As.." which indicates your creating a copy?

And that PhotoShop saves in it's own file format, not a Generic 16 bit Tiff file like Astro IIDC does?

You might want to read the manual as it clearly states all Rendering is done when the image is saved in Astro IIDC and is permanent.

And as I said several before, your images are so grainy from over sharpening there pointless to work with. You should go back to the original stacks and start working with them, or if you destroyed them go back to the source movie and re-work it.

Milton Aupperle