Starspikes Pro

[Psychobilly]

Mr Carbonis been busy and has developed a new plugin for Photoshop and most other graphic aps that can use PS plugins...

All singing all dancing spike generation with halos spectra etc all adjustable... SO for the frac or Cardi user thats feeling left out...

He's also released a few updates for his actions which are free to existing users...

Peter...

[blinky]

Yeah but $60 to produce some star spikes! I will stick to a couple of threads over the front of the ZS66!

[Psychobilly]

Yeah $60... but full control of where, what angle , length etc as well as how intense how colorful etc... as the law of the grassy turf will mean I'll end up with then in the wrong place if it go for the cotton thread approach...

Clear skies being so rare I rather not leave the spikes to chance...

Peter...

[SteveL]

I tried it last night, loved it, purchased it

[blinky]

Man you guys must have too many of the readies! Thread for me!

[TakMan]

Contacted Noel with regards to his new piece of software...

A 'Mac' version will be available at a later date - yipeee!

(so hopefully any bugs will have been ironed out by then...!)

Damian

[adamsp123]

Buy a Newtonian

[George]

Granted its more controllable but you get the spikes action with the standard Noels actions.

Just downloaded the updates....must play

[simon e]

How do you get the normal star spikes??? new to all of this.

simon

[MartinB]

I like them. You can do a lot an lot with the standard action but it involves layers, rotations, fading and a lot of faff. Just how much do I want to spend on bling...count me in!

[jgs001]

How do you get the normal star spikes??? new to all of this.

simon

Simon, spikes are a product of diffraction within the telescope tube. The ones normally seen in images are caused by the secondary mirror holder in a newtonian reflector. In theory, you shouldn't get spikes with a refractor, and these tools can be used to add them to the image.

[simon e]

I thought i read somewhere, but could be totally wrong that you could stick some cotton across the end of the scope in a cross hairs shape. Trouble is I have a NEXSTAR 8SE so hard for me to do on a SCT. Best I use a bit of software then.

si