NoiseXTerminator 2/AI3 for Photoshop is now available for beta testing. This is a major update with all of the features of the PixInsight version, including a live preview that enables easy tuning of all of the parameters. In addition, the…
Workflow Questions often arise about when to apply NoiseXTerminator in an image processing workflow. There are a few guiding ideas to keep in mind: Deconvolution, to truly be called deconvolution, requires linear data that has not been noise-reduced. Good deconvolution…
NoiseXTerminator version 2, with AI version 3, is now available for installation in PixInsight 1.8.9-2 and later. The update will be distributed automatically using PixInsight’s update system and the NoiseXTerminator repository. This is a major update with changes listed below.…
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BlurXTerminator takes a different approach to deconvolution. Not only does it use a machine learning algorithm, but it was also developed using an updated mathematical formulation of deconvolution itself. Implicit in the classical formulation of deconvolution is the goal of…
BlurXTerminator version 2.0 and AI version 4 are now available for download. This is a major update with expanded optical aberration correction and improved accuracy. The changes are described in detail below. The update can be obtained by the usual…
StarXTerminator 2.2.0 has been released for PixInsight. This update corrects the way that StarXTerminator handles masks. StarXTerminator has always correctly handled masks with respect to the target image: masked (black) areas are protected from star removal. This is useful in…
NoiseXTerminator version 1.2.0 has been released for PixInsight. This update contains the following changes You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make sure you’re set…
BlurXTerminator version 1.2.0 has been released. This is a minor update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make sure you’re…
StarXTerminator version 2.1.3 has been released for PixInsight. This is a moderate update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make…
NoiseXTerminator version 1.1.4 has been released for PixInsight. This is a minor update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make…
BlurXTerminator AI3-beta2 has been released. This is a beta test release of the neural network definition for BlurXTerminator that expands the range of optical aberrations to include additional coma and astigmatism profiles. Please note that this is a beta release…
BlurXTerminator version 1.1.18 has been released. This is a minor update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make sure you’re…
BlurXTerminator version 1.1.16 has been released. The primary change in this version is a correction that eliminates minor clipping in shadow regions on some deep-sky images, and a major clipping issue that frequently occurred on lunar, planetary, and solar images.…
Update: BlurXTerminator 1.1.16 has been released The beta repository () is no longer available. Please use the standard PixInsight installation instructions to update to version 1.1.16. A beta-test version of BlurXTerminator, version 1.1.16, is now available for testing. The primary…