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StarXterminatorin sivulla on ohjeetkin tähän:
Use StarXTerminator as early in your processing flow as possible. Though it has been trained to remove sharpened stars and stars with dark halos, better results are possible on lightly processed photographs.
Before running the filter, duplicate the target layer. This allows easy evaluation of the results as well as access to the original photograph in case any non-stellar features were removed.
If you want to create a layer with just the stars so they can be processed separately and added back in later, do the following:
Duplicate the target layer twice
Process the top-most layer with StarXTerminator
Duplicate this layer, then make it invisible
Select the first starless layer and set its blending mode to "Subtract"
Merge this layer with the one below – this is now the layer with just the stars
Move this layer to the top and set its blending mode to "Linear Dodge (add)"
Make the remaining starless layer visible again
You should now have three layers: the original photograph, the starless photograph, and the stars themselves