Better Stars

[MeyGray3833]

Howdy.

A lot of the images I take turn out reasonably well, however, one thing I'm never really happy with is the stars.

I can select the stars and create a new layer, minimise, saturate, etc., but I always look at other people's images and their much better results with stars.

Any tips and tricks with perhaps some links to demo images I could try next time I'm processing?

Thanks.

[Jessun]

If you mean roundness you can magic wand select, expand by 4, feather by 2 and then give it a radial blur or two. If you record an action for it it's quite quick for giving things a touchup. Thanks to Olly P for passing on this tip.

Most of my stars are fairly round due to bad focus and atmospheric effects haha

[MeyGray3833]

Hi, thanks for the tip. I've luckily not had to need that , however, I will sure keep it in mind.

[Jessun]

OK, so what is it that you wish to improve? (Keen to pick up a few hints here too )