Photoshop and?

[Tiny]

From all the examples given of how a image can be improved with photoshop it seems that this is the product of choice. But I notice it is expensive and from what I read, has a lot of options available for more money. So, what do you recommend I buy to, say, produce a good final image of core and outer clouds of M42 given I manage to take various sets of images at various exposure times of said M42 to process.

[Sam]

Tiny,

For free you can use Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ which is pretty much like Photoshop with curves, levels, layer masks and filters - I have used both photoshop and Gimp and they are both very similar (not the same).

cheers

Sam

[Black Shuck]

Tiny,

Check the ebay guy out in this post. - I bought one.

http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,20707.0.html

He doesn't have any for sale at the moment but it's worth keeping your eye out. It appears to be a genuine product but you just get the CD and the product registration key (i.e. - it doesn't come in a box).

Cheers

Bill£