From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: February 10, 2010 8:28:36 PM MST

To: "Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com" <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro & Aperture


Hi Alan & Terry, I obtained Photoshop CS3 Extended for a very reasonable price after some investigations with Google. I began by learning to make mosaics with it by reading the Help section in the Menu bar...& can now do two or three other things with it as well! Alan"s own alteration of one of my rather washed out moon images was a stimulus for my last foray into the Help department...!


Mark.


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On 11/02/2010, at 2:14 PM, Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com> wrote:



Hi Terry,


I would suggest opening up Photoshop and spending time with it. It is the de facto standard for image processing. There are many astronomy tutorials written for it on both the PC and Mac side and hundreds of plug-ins and other tools specific to astronomy and also to every other image making task too... it is highly discounted in educational editions (if you know a student or teacher) and it will do just about anything you could every dream of doing to a picture. 


best,

Alan




On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. wrote:

 

Milton,


I use Graphic converter if I want more power than iPhoto or Appleworks.  I also have Photoshop but never use it.  I assume Aperture competes with Photoshop.


It took almost a GB of space on the hard drive.


Terry - W6LMJ - 14.287  ;


Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. 

Redding Observatory South, West Palm Beach, Florida

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On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:


Thanks for the link.


I'll check it out when I can and have to block time off to work with it.


Secondly, how many people are using it with Astro IIDC as I'm not going to bother doing a whole bunch of code work for one Astro IIDC license. It's not cost effective and there are many other things I can be doing instead.


Regards;


Milton Aupperle



On 10-Feb-10, at 8:02 AM, cmera123 wrote:

I just received a notice From Apple about the release of Aperture 3.


The 30 day free trial link:


http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/?cid=CDM-US-DM-P0009047-SMB-PROSP&Email_PageName=P0009047-SMB&Email_OID=9f4cd052225c16c3545c271c071b1b73&cp=em-P0009047-SMB&sr=em


Ralph


--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:


Yes through AppleScript, action and drop boxes form the Finder.


Without any work by you, then No. Firstly I can't afford Aperture and  

Apple offers no demos, even for developers. Secondly, I no longer work  

on anythin! g except if I have it in house (Hardware or Software) to  

test with. Thirdly, Apple doesn't list or publish the lists of verbs  

and nouns used for Aperture scripting, so that we could send messages  

directly.


HTH..


Milton Aupperle


On 9-Feb-10, at 8:48 AM, stuppt wrote:


Is there a way to make Astro IIDC automatically export grabbed  

frames into Apple Aperture?


Graefe







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