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I will try layering. That may do the trick. I'm not too concerned about this shot though as it was a quickie done for testing purposes and overexposed while I was waiting for my night's subject to rise. I only wanted to get a sense of focal length and composition so I have a better start at it when ...

Thanks Ivo. What you are saying is that the mask function when used in wipe, is only to choose an area (or set of pixels) for the wipe module to analyze, but that the result is applied to the entire image. That's good to know, but that is not masking. It's more like sampling or using selection in PS...

I have been trying to use the mask function in the wipe module, but it does not seem to work correctly. I wipe the image and when done, I have a small area that a bright star is overpowering that I want to tone down. I can make the mask (with lasso) I want and I get the "partial mask" note when I tr...

Just curious. . . anyone ever get an image like this? Capture.JPG The Pleiades. Canon T6i. 80 light frames stacked in DSS using Auto Adaptive with Bias and Offset, no Darks. Image produced after 'Autodev'. I've been trying to learn StarTools for about 3 months with very limited success. Perhaps I sh...