![]() Invert the selection so you are selecting the sky, which is where the gradients are going to be. Open an image where uneven backgrounds are messing up your photo. Here's a wide shot of the Veil Nebula, with lots of gradients, and an especially bright one in the center.įixing this is quite simple. It's been through a lot of updates (all free so far) and it now supports my Apple Silicon computers. His solution was so good and so easy I'm still using it 20 years later. It fixed a big problem for astrophotographers, and that's correcting gradients (uneven backgrounds). I first bought a Croman plug-in back around 2000. The plug-ins have been so popular he's doing it full time now. One of the things that has made Photoshop so much more pleasant to use in processing astronomy images is a series of plug-ins from Russell Croman, a former engineer, chip designer, and software guru by trade, who has put those software skills to use making plug-ins that don't work with anything else but astronomy images. I think it has been slowly winning astrophotographers over from Photoshop, but it's got a big learning curve, and many photographers who already have lots of time logged with Photoshop may stay with Adobe. There are some dedicated programs for astrophotography. The light coming from these distant objects is dim, so it's going to be a while before those photons stack up. ![]() Star shooters know you can spend hours getting a good picture of a galaxy or nebula. Update: Mediachance Plugin Bridge is another option.I use a small wide field telescope that is easy to travel with, and I have a home observatory that houses a 12" scope that is designed only for photography. * Nailing down the really essential vector drawing tools, which you’ll see I’ve added here as a mini toolbar… * Can a set of Styles be imported from Photoshop (yes) and work (?). * Can the naff toolbar icons be easily changed? * Can it launch Krita or Rebelle as an external painting programme, and then return the results to a layer? Still, PhotoLine is obviously superior to the Photoshop-alike Affinity Photo, which is in the bracket of: i) same price-range ii) capabilities in plugins and iii) a nice Photoshop-alike UI. An extra $25 may be more than you want to pay to get a couple of old plugins working again, and you may find they now have viable 64-bit versions (I found that to be the case for Primatte). ![]() The only drawback is that for a new buyer it would bump the overall price of PhotoLine to nearly $90 including LaunchBox. Getting the little-used old KPT Sky Effects and Xenofex 2 back is an extra bonus. The Nik Tools collection (now called something weird like the DxO Nik Collection) is nice, especially for B&W conversion, but it doesn’t have 55mm DFT’s one-click mists and glows so far as I can see. Thus, another PhotoLine roadblock has been busted! I now have my glows and misty atmospheres back, in the form of Diffuse Glow, Luce, and 55mm DFT. And, again, PhotoLine has a replacement native dust removal tool. This is better used as the standalone, anyway. * The really ancient Polaroid Dust and Scratch Removal as a plugin. Probably there’ something in PhotoLine that will do that too, but I just haven’t found it yet. The only other tool I might miss would be the camera lens distortion rectification. But now longer needed since PhotoLine has a Rectify Tool. Loads but returns mangled output to PhotoLine. When first used it has to be run once in Administrator mode, in order to allow it to drop its licence file in the right place. It still works fine with PhotoLine, dropping down from the usual Filters menu. This is a 64-bit plugin that reliably ‘hosts’ a great many older 32-bit plugins, in either Photoshop or other software that supports plugins. I dug out an old copy of an AlphaPlugins plugin, the now-$25 LaunchBox 2.0. I’m pleased to have found the easy solution to running older plugins in PhotoLine, such as the trusty old 55MM Film Tools and Luce.
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