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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=941053&l=8944a713cf&id=1286302134 Actual photos taken, but edited with PDN

And you know what about programming ... ? A bit. Try Catch kinda stuff

As do I, but this is not the proper venue nor is it the proper time.

See, now we are making progress instead of bickering needlessly Thanks OMA

So then you've already learned this lesson. Sure, many times before. The next part is learning when I would use it?

I am very open-minded. I am just looking for an example case when it would be used. I used to think that a gaussian blur is useless because who would want to blur something. Now I use it almost every time I make something on PDN.

You might want to scale down your images. Not everybody has fast internet. I love the Huskie! My school's mascot is a huskie.

I think so? See the image that I posted above. It looks as if the galaxy was converted to a cyanotype. It is supposed to look like this in terms of colors.

If you want to be really precise, you can zoom in a lot (a lot being defined as being able to see each individual pixel) and use the pixel grid option.

I finally got around to trying this.

So yeah. This is my first plugin and because it is my first I used pixel lab. The idea of this plugin is to create a starry sky, hence the name. Basically, if you look at any of the skyscape tutorials, you will see the need to make a starry sky. This almost perfectly does that. Here is a screenshot showing what it does. Here is the Download Link Before After I recommend clicking on the after picture for a larger view. All that the plugin does is make the background black, adds noise, and then it increases the contrast to make less noise appear. If you have any comments or suggestions, please tell me.

I'm sorry, but when would one ever want to pixelate something?

I have to add that this is aa great use of the sine waves pulgin! The only problem that I have with this is that the noise effect got stretched out due to the twirl. I would have made a separate layer for noise or add the noise after the twirl.

Thanks! That is exactly what I needed

I like the way it looks, I am going to have to try this later on tonight when I am done preparing and completing for my imaging session tonight of the stars!

Thank you so much! I have been looking for a galaxy tutorial to add to my sig and desktop background. I will try it out soon. Also, you might want to scale down your screenshots, they are too big.

Your BBT gallery is great!

Happy New Year! Congrats on making the change, I did and I love PDN. I do not think that there are any alignment guides. However, you can always look at the bottom left to see the pixel location or you could even make a layer that you draw lines on in order to line things up.

Is this legal?

The JPEG file format does not support transparency, gif and I think tiff both support transparency.

Sarkut, I tried your method, while it is very interesting it is long. I used one of those neat little NTSC test screens because they work well for color tests. I made a red and blue channel from it via the extract channel function. Red: Blue: The problem is that it turned out like this: I am confused by two things. 1. Why don't astronomers use a green filter when doing a sky survey? 2. Why can't this be easy?

Well now that you mention it... I am fascinated by your mathematical approach to the problem, but (and this is a big but) I think the white balance for lack of a better term is off a bit. When I combine the images I do the following: 1. paste the red and blue images (which are grayscale) into Paint.NET 2. use curves to change the color of the image. For the red I decrease the green and blue to 0 and for blue I decrease the red and green to 0. 3. I set the blending mode of the top layer to additive and then I got a purple colored image (which is what I was expecting). 4. I merge the two layers down 5. I run your plugin The problem occurs at the last step. The image is tinted a teal color. Yes I know the bottom part of the image is orange. That is because I got lazy and did not want to wait for the rest of the image to load. Seriously, it takes a long time to download a 3572x3572 gif via ftp. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or if it is the plugin. :?:

I would have never thought of using paneling plugin. Thanks, I will try it.

You could select in it a box and then copy and paste it over and over again.

I am working on putting a cross screen on stars so that they stand out and looks better. I think the only way to do this is by duplicating the layer first. I then isolate the stars by adjusting the contrast all the way up and leaving the brightness at its default setting. Because the stars are too small I run a median at 100% and about 5 pixels, that is so that they are bigger. I run the splinter blur on the whole image (that takes forever) and then I go to each star and put a transparent radial gradient on the four splinters making the spikes look better. Because I lost any color information by shooting the contrast all the way up, I then set the layer blending mode to additive over the original picture. The sky does nothing to the picture because it is black and 0 + n = n. My only question is whether or not there is an easier way. This process is time cosumiong and I am wondering if I can do anything to make it faster. The other problem that I have is because the spikes do not have any color information, they look too fake.