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The absolute point of focus plugin for PS


PeterBolt

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I saw this APF-R tool come up on one of my google news astronomy feeds , so I downloaded it last night - it cost £25 through the adobe marketplace - I havent really investigated what it is using to acheive the sharpening - but as Peter said above, initial impression is that it does give a marked improvement to the image definition. I will upload a comparison using my narrowband Jellyfish Nebula later

 

It may turn out to be one of these 'marmite' processing tools, like Topaz De_noise - I happen to think that given the general quality of the skies we image under in UK any processing assistance is welcome.

 

Be interesting to see if we see this being used more widely as we get into nebula season under astro-dark skies later in the year,

 

Bryan

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14 hours ago, Astrobdlbug said:

For a rough comparison, I have below my original process that used Pi and PS and some topaz Denoise and then I applied the new APF-R plugin - the version posted is the minimum from selction 1 on the APF-R control panel

 

ORIGINAL

eSbD9gkIuX0f_16536x0_2w2d88Mg.jpg

 

APF-R Processed

YT8lt4BqE63g_16536x0_2w2d88Mg.jpg

 

Incredible image! But I think the APF-R version is an enhancement.  Maybe the plug-in makes more of a difference to my level of image processing 😂

 

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On 6/20/2021 at 12:11 AM, Astrobdlbug said:

For a rough comparison, I have below my original process that used Pi and PS and some topaz Denoise and then I applied the new APF-R plugin - the version posted is the minimum from selction 1 on the APF-R control panel

 

ORIGINAL

eSbD9gkIuX0f_16536x0_2w2d88Mg.jpg

 

APF-R Processed

YT8lt4BqE63g_16536x0_2w2d88Mg.jpg

Great image, just a hint sharper in the brighter areas with APF-R

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