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1. i Convert to 8 bit Grayscale E Convert to 12 bt Grayscale E Convert to 16 bit Grayscale fh Auto Level Image Intensity Detect O Solarize Posterize Adjust Transform Li e Brightnes Contrast Enhancement Remap Li del Brightness E Histogram tD Contrazt y Fil Pl Lighting Separate Hue Color Merge G Tint Count Unique Colors saturation Customize Palette ff Gamma A Balance Colors menu which is located on the COLOR menu The Brightness and Contrast options let you adjust them independently whereas the Brightness Contrast Enhancement option combines these tools A variety of other tools like Gama Saturation and Hue let you further control all aspects of the image s brightness and color The Auto Level Feature You can use the Auto Level feature to automatically adjust the Level Contrast and Intensity of the image There are several tools available to accomplish this A quick leveling button is displayed on the toolbar and is configured under Preferences Program Options Page 27 Lip SA Ml 42228 Auto Level Options ASA NMS brightness and Contrast a gt et the Je of tk pixels to clip from the gt sui gm O to 10000 auTolevel In Frogram i 9 40 clip trom the 500 en Options from O to 10000 Type trai Jae si ia a To see how this feature works open up the m65_cal fit file
2. The capture screen is broken down into a couple areas e Toolbar e Preview Window Page 35 e Capture Window e Setup Tab e Capture Tab Toolbar The toolbar is used to specify whether to scale the video preview window fit the video to it change video settings and return a test capture back to Deepsky Imaging ES Full Screen Mode o This puts you in full screen mode to aid in focusing or to view live video Sets the video preview at ts actual size Fits the video to the preview window so that the entire image is shown Stretches the video to take up the entire preview window DE Lat Displays the video double its normal size ic stopwatch Use this button to manually time your exposures 278 Video Settings Sets various video settings including video decoder processing video source The screen that shows when this is selected is dependent on your video capture card driver La Video Capture Pin Di ua l Sets additional video settings The screen that shows when this is selected is dependent on your video capture card driver m Return Current Captured Image To Main Window Takes the captured image and returns it to Deepsky Imaging Page 36 Video Preview Window ia Capture Video From Stellacam or other Camera Using Microsoft Direct Show ex d Full Screen Mode O Stopwatch ara Video Settings La Video Capture Pin Video Preview Window Current Captured Image S
3. Clear Image History at Start of Program a a al iat G gt ER 0021 Load From Brows All of the images in the history toolbar can be left there indefinitely as long as you don t run out of disk space What you may want to do is select the CLEAR HISTORY AT START OF PROGRAM option located on the Preferences menu When you have this selected each time you start Deepsky Imaging all of the images in the history folder will be deleted You can also clear the history toolbar via the Clear History button on the toolbar This gives you a little more control over when and when not to clear the history Page 26 Special Note regarding the history Toolbar The images in the toolbar are saved as JPG files with no compression even if you are working in another image format Please keep this in mind if you reopen an image from the history toolbar Also if you notice that Deepsky Imaging is taking longer to start up then clear the image history toolbar Adjusting Brightness Contrast and Level of your Image One of the most basic image processing tasks is adjusting the brightness contrast and intensity of an image Deepsky provides several tools to do this These options are located on the ADJUST Color Preferences Window Help ig Auto Color Level Selection ei PARA Lat id Auto Image Level All Open windows yl 1 JPES Colorize Grayscale Image F IS Invert Control image brightness and contrast here
4. by isuen 5 Tuya Desosky Aito no Softwa Le Version 1 2 2 Now Integrates with Deepsky Stacker By Steven S Tuma Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved Page 1 Table of Contents Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved ccscccssssccsosssscncoususccccussscucussscueussseesuesseueuesseneusssestoususseueuesseneees 1 Ho E o e O E E OO A 8 iroducing Deepsky Mati csi ina 9 Welcome to Deepsky TMG SING cisco aio 10 FEA TURES ias 10 InstallIne the SoFHWaF6 zencesi nessi nasa and EE OTTE api OES ia 12 SA Oa 12 AMAN re RI 12 Terminology Used in Deepsky Magi 13 Concepts Bits per Pixel and Related Ideas oooccccconcnnncnnncnnnonononononanonnnnanononncnnnonanonnononcnnnonarinononos 15 Concepts Color Resolution and Dithering ii 15 Concepts Palette Handal raso i 17 Important Technical information regarding Deepsky IMaging i 18 Hot Tips for New Users and other Notes c ccescccccsssecccesecceceescceesesececeeeceeeeussesseecessueeceeseuseeeesagneses 18 CUE TO to 21 Opening an IMage unio ori 22 nn e OP E O O A 22 AA e OMS E OO e PO OU SU PO RE O E 23 A A 24 Common dialogs used in Deepsky Imaging ii 25 Mate ISCO TOODI ita 26 Adjusting Brightness Contrast and Level of your IMA ccooccccnnccnnnnccnnonacononacinonananoncnnonanonnnrcnonarononasa 27 TRE AUtO e vel FER esa a 27 Aligning and Stacking MALES ceuta dear 30 Interfacing to Stellacam Mallincam amp Other V
5. e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operations ROP2 code e Change the fill mode and the fill pattern e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Edit the text e Select an image file to load into the stamp e Select a metafile to load into the stamp e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects A Text Tool The Text annotation object is a rectangle containing a character string with font properties The text will wrap on word breaks within the object s specified rectangle In design mode click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rectangle will make the text annotation square A dialog box then lets the user enter the text As soon as the Text object is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While in design mode double click on a text object to edit the text As soon as the Text object is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While in design mode double click on a text object to edit the text In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the las
6. encryptor metafile 70 Enhanced Compressed Wavelet Format 91 error diffusion 16 Exif Formats 92 F11 24 Filter and Effects Browser 50 Fit Image to Window 45 Fit Sides to Window 45 FITS 13 FITS Format 92 FITS header 45 FITS images 10 fixed palette 18 Flat Field Frame 13 Flic Animation Format 92 Flip Horizontal 46 Flip Vertical 46 Floyd Steinberg 16 Freehand Hot Spot Tool 72 Freehand Line Tool 73 GEM Image Format 100 Highlight Tool 74 Histogram 49 Histogram gt Contrast 52 Histogram gt Equalize 52 Histogram gt Stretch Intensity 52 HISTORY folder 26 history toolbar 11 Hotspot Tool 74 HTML Map Creator 44 Image File Formats 89 image history toolbar 21 Image History Toolbar 13 26 Page 222 Image Information 49 Image Object Content Architecture IOCA MODCA 100 Installation 12 Intensity Detect 51 Interchange File Formats 93 Intergraph Format 100 JBIG Format 93 JPEG Compressed 94 Kodak Digital Camera Format 94 Kodak Format 92 95 Kodak Professional Digital Camera Format 91 Kodak Professional Digital Camera System Format 91 LaserView LaserData Format 100 LEAD 1 Bit Format 99 LEAD CMP compression 86 LEAD Compressed 90 Lead Tools 10 Level 27 Line Tool 75 Line Width and Line Style option 64 Macintosh Pict Format 95 MacPaint Format 101 Magnify tools 11 Magnifying Glass 14 45 MERGE ANNOTATION WITH IMAGE 54 Microsoft FAX
7. images by averaging all bitmaps Uses Deepsky Stacker software to align and stack your images The following screenshot shows the results of aligning 4 images of M17 Align amp Stack by file selection m Deepsky Stacker Interface Eno Light Frames Desk Frames Fletfromes ss Bias Frames m17 4 jpg C data Deepsky 99 DSimaging sampleimages Samples for Aligning and Stad 0 X 3 m17 1 jpg C data Deepsky 99 DSimaging sampleimages Samples for Aligning and Stac data m17 2 jpg C data Deepsky 99 DSimaging sampleimages Samples for Aligning and Stac aj Deepsky 99 m17 3 jpg C data Deepsky 9NDSImagingisampleimagesiSamples for Aligning and Stac Sy 0Simagi ra Moon with annotations jpg me moonshadows png O Samples for Aligning and Stackini ngc13160 fits orion 16 fits x0c90101t_d0h fit You can also add images to the various categories above using drag and drop Align amp Combine Preview Selected Unprocessed Image Final Processed Image Fitimage in window JV Remove Hot Pixels Auto Level Images PROCESSMAGES neous ee Clear Selections c To start the stacking process click the PROCESS IMAGES button Deepsky Stacker will display its command window showing you the progress When finished the final image will be shown in the Final Processed Image box Align amp Combine This does the same thing as the preceding alignment function however all Windows only the MDI child windows that you have open will
8. In design mode each line segment is formed with a mouse move event when the left button is down and the object is completed on a mouse up event In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Ifthe object has multiple nodes Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties Page 73 e Change the binary raster operations ROP2 code e Change the foreground color e Change the node properties e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects A highlight Tool The highlight annotation object is a rectangle with default properties that are appropriate for highlighting an area In design mode you can click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window You can then click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the bac
9. Sei Pixelate gt ERE is 3D punch jpg A convolution jpg Spatial Filters 3D mask convolution s 3D mask convolution e 3D mask convolution e LARE Original Image 3D emboss jpg 3D cylindrical jpg 3D bending jpg gt J 13 Fitters Active 3D addshadow jpg Launch Fitter Screen Close Blur Applies various blur effects to the image Low pass Guassian Motion ETA Radial Zoom Anti Alias Average Noise Adds noise effects to the image Removes hot pixels median add noise DEN PEA Sharpens the image Unsharp mask sharpen high pass filter Calculations Applies mathematical calculations to the image Math functions Multiply Subtract Background Custom User Filter Distort Applies distortion effects to the image Freehand Wave Wind Polar Zoom Wave Radial Wave Swirl Wave Wave Shear Rev Effect Ocean 3 D Applies 3 D effects to the image Emboss Mask Convolution Punch Ripple Bending Cylindrical Spherize Plane Bend Zig Zag Add Shadow Artistic Applies artistic effects to the image Impressionist Oilify Glow Diffuse Glow Dry Colored Pencil Cloud Lens Flare Pointillist Color Replace Glass Vignette Fragment Underlay other images onto the current image Applies pixilation effects to the image Pixelate Mosaic Picturize Applies edge effects to the image Detect Smooth Edges Edge Detect Effect Spatial Filters Imposes a Spatial filter on t
10. This filter is used to change the Chrominance Hue Channel of an image Page 207 Effect Tint Description Adjusts the image tint by changing the colors in an image by using two separate color wheel rotations Usage Swinging the image colors between the red green and blue Page 208 Effect Saturation Description Increases or decreases the saturation of colors in an image Usage Changing the chrominance of the image colors Saturation Page 209 Effect Color Balance Description Redistributes the RGB values of the specified image using the values stored in the specified structures Usage Balance image colors according to specified weights Page 210 Effect Convert To Colored Gray Description Converts an image to a grayscale image and then enhances the color components based on the specified parameters Usage Convert grayscale images to a colored one based on channels factors Page 211 Effect Remap Intensity Description Uses a lookup table to change an image s intensity values You can apply the change to red green blue or all color channels Usage Remap the colors intensities to user specified values Page 212 Effect Remap Hue Description Uses a lookup table to change an image s hue values Usage Remap a range of Hue color values to another range Page 213 Effect Math Functions Description Re mapping the image colors according to a mathematical functio
11. interested in visiting their website at http www leadtools com to learn more about their toolkits Hot Tips for New Users and other Notes e HOTTIP Version 1 2 2 now supports capturing directly to an AVI file This is the preferred method for capturing solar system images e HOT TIP Download and install Deepsky Stacker a freeware stacking program that interfaces with Deepsky Imaging Before using it via Deepsky Imaging make sure you set all settings in Deepsky Stacker since Deepsky Imaging uses those settings http deepskystacker free fr english index html e HOT TIP If you are running a 64 bit Windows operating system and keep getting a message that Deepsky Stacker is not installed when you know it is just go to OPTIONS under preferences and select the path to the DeepskyStackerCL exe file e Ifanimage is larger than the screen window you can PAN the image by left clicking and holding the mouse button down while you drag the mouse The toolbar at the top includes a FIT and 100 zoom factors to simplify working with large images e Use the reopen option on the FILE menu to reopen past images Page 18 Don t have a screen capture utility like Snagit Use the advanced capture option on the FILE menu instead It allows for capturing full screens windows and even regions Select the eyeglass icon on the left toolbar to enable magnify mode Now when you left click a little zoom window will follow your mouse as you move it D
12. you can reduce the color resolution of the combined image Whenever you reduce an image s color resolution to 8 bits per pixel or less a dithering method comes into play One alternative is to use a nearest color match no dithering which means that the color of each pixel is changed to the palette color that most closely matches it If the original image contains subtle color details the result of a nearest color match may have large blotches of color that are not very pleasing Dithering methods create the appearance of more subtle shades by mixing in pixels of different colors This is similar to the way newspaper pictures produce the appearance of shades of gray even though the only actual colors are black and white Ordered dithering is the fastest method It is the default dithering method when painting to a display device that is 256 colors or less Ordered dithering takes advantage of the fact that the colors in most palettes are ordered so that similar shades are next to each other in the palette This method avoids blotches of color by adding to or subtracting from the nearest color value of each pixel to ensure that adjacent pixels do not have exactly the same color If the colors in the palette are not ordered the results are not good All of the other dithering methods in the software use error diffusion algorithms In error diffusion the error is the difference between the original pixel color and the nearest match and diffus
13. BPP a BPP 134 Flic Animation 256 color FILE FU 8 BPP none 61 Flic Animation 64 color FPX Kodak Format Constant Read Support Write Su pport Description FILE PCD 8 24 BPP ON None 57 Kodak PhotoCD FILE_FPX 8 24 BPP 8 24 BPP 80 FlashPix with no compression FILE _FPX_SINGLE COLOR 8 24 BPP 8 24 BPP 81 FlashPix compressed with the single color method HLE_FPX_ JPEG 6 24 BPP 8 24 BPP 82 FlashPix compressed with JPEG using the default Q factor FILE FPX JPEG QFACTOR 8 24 BPP 6 24 BPP 83 FlashPix compressed with JPEG using a specified Q factor GIF Compuserve GIF Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_GIF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BPP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 amp BPP 2 CompuSere GIF Page 92 ICO Windows Icons Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE WIN ICO 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24BPP 91 Windows Icon FILE WIN_CUR 1 4 6 24 BPP 1 4 8 24 BPP 92 Windows Cursor IFF Interchange File Formats Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_IFF_ILBM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 111 Interchange File 8 24 BPP 8 24 BPP RLE Compressed FILE_IFF_CAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 T 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 112 Interchange File 8 24 BPP 6 24 BPP multiple images per file RLE Compressed FILE_IFF_ILBM_ UNCOMPRESSED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 303
14. Dark Frame 13 DCX Format 91 Deepsky Astronomy Software 10 22 DESIGN mode 54 Distort 50 Dithering methods 16 DjVu Format 91 Dr Halo Format 90 Drag any image 22 Edge 50 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Add Bitmaps 127 Add Shadow 157 Annotation Add your own text 197 Anti Alias 107 Bending 151 Brightness Contrast Enhancement 205 Clouds 171 Color Balance 210 Color Replace 174 Colored Pencil 169 Convert To Colored Gray 211 Cylindrical 152 Deinterlace 116 Diffuse Glow 166 Dry 168 Page 219 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Edge Detect 185 Edge Detect Effect 188 Emboss 145 Fragment 178 Free Hand Wave 130 Gaussian Blur 103 Glass 176 Glow 164 High Pass Filter 120 Histogram Contrast 216 Histogram Equalize 215 Hue 207 Impressionist 160 Intensity Detect 202 Invert 201 Lens Flare 172 Lighting Control 206 Mask Convolution edge 148 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Mask Convolution emboss 147 Mask Convolut
15. List Sil Pieve File Name Selected Pa C data Deepsky 99 DSImagina sampleimageskcar fit 1 C data Deepsky 99DSImaging sampleimages deinterlace jpg 1 C data Deepsky 99 DSImaging sampleimagesMWMG_7577 CR2 1 C data Deepsky 99DSImaging sampleimages m6B_cal fit 1 C data Deepsky 99DSImaging sampleimages m82 fit 1 C data Deepsky 99DSImaging sampleimages moonshadows p 1 lt gt Se Y Full Path Options File Info lt gt Delete Ovenwrite File s Page 141 Resulting File s File Type Destination Folder cmp Use Original Folder JPEG ipg TIF ti Folder El GIF gif CServe PNG png Animated Cursor ani s CALS cal Overwrite Skip Cineon cin CI P f alm lt gt BPP 24 Options Sub Type Non progressive Y Log Report v Naming Template Resize Rotate Printing Images Printing images couldn t be easier in Deepsky Imaging Once you have an image ready to print you can either print it right away or you can preview it first as shown below Print Preview Erre le CD 523 File View Image 2 i 02 gA2 90 X01DC0OCGGAGAEAG m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 bu 1 1 1 rf Page 23 Screen Capture Deepsky Advanced Screen Capture Utility Capture Screenshots During Capture ESC Cancel f Wall Paper f Active Window Active Client C Region Rectangle f Redi j Region Triangle 2 Press the F11 key t
16. ROP2 code e Change the fill mode and the fill pattern e Change the foreground and background colors Page 80 e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects i Redaction Tool The Redaction annotation object is a rectangle with default properties that are appropriate for blacking out an area In design mode click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rectangle will make the Redaction annotation square In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the background color e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects EA Rubber Stamp Tool The rubber stamp annotation object is a stamp object that has a metafile For more information about the stamp tool refer to Stamp Tool h H e Ruler Tool The ruler annotation object is a line that can be used to measure the distance between two points of the original image In design mode you can click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete th
17. Region 4 be applied to that region until the Cancel Region is selected Cancel Region Cancel Region Cancels region processing Page 44 View Menu View Animation Image Effects Colo Normal Displays the image at its actual size Mormal Zoom Lets you Zoom into the image pes Fit Image to Window Fits the image to the current window Fit Image To Window The largest possible width or height is set to the control s client area width or height The remaining dimension is set proportionally to Fit Sides to Window Fit Sides to Window Stretch Image To Window maintain the aspect ratio S Window To Full Si i Stretch Image to Width is the control s client area width Height is the client area Snap Window To Current View ia Window height The aspect ratio is not preserved e Image Size D Current View currently scaled at AOS First Page Previous Used for navigation in multi paged images Magnifying Glass Page Next Page Last Zoom View Page fa Pan Window Displays a small pop up window showing the entire image with a rectangle of the current view that can be used to pan around the full image Magnifying Glass Makes the mouse pointer appear as a magnifying glass Left click to zoom in at the mouse position Configurable in Program Options in Preferences Zoom View Lets you create 1 or more magnified windows that can be dragged around the screen like with Pan Window Zoom view is fully config
18. W Name Restrict LI Transparent cane A One thing that may confuse you is when you want to change text of an annotation do not change the NAME tab as shown above but rather if text is available a TEXT tab not shown in the above example will be shown Page 55 Annotation Features The following information was taken from the Lead tools help file and explains many of the annotation features available in Deepsky Imaging LeadTools is the company that makes the imaging toolkit that Deepsky Imaging uses If you are a software developer highly recommend their toolkits The following annotation features are available in Deepsky Imaging e New Rubber Stamp Display Style e New XP Style Annotation Toolbar e New Alpha Background Fill Option e New Annotation Rotate Option e New Annotation Side Handles e New Annotation Multi select e New Annotation Cursors e New ESC to Cancel e New Calibrate Ruler Feature e New Dot Dash Lines e New Text Annotation Options The following paragraphs describe each feature in more detail New Rubber Stamp Display Style In previous versions of LEADTOOLS you could draw any of 26 predefined rubber stamp annotations While any of these metafiles can be changed users have asked for more contemporary looking defaults LEADTOOLS has responded and developed new default images The following figure displays a sample of the original style and the new style 4 R Pi A P
19. are also referring to 16 bit images but they are counting the left over bit If an image is 8 bits per pixel it is also called an 8 bit image or a 256 color image Two hundred fifty six is the number of different colors that can be achieved by using the image data as 8 bit indexes to an array of colors called a palette If an image is 4 bits per pixel it is also called a 4 bit image or a 16 color image Sixteen is the number of different colors that can be achieved by using the image data as 4 bit indexes to a palette If an image is 1 bit per pixel it is also called a 1 bit image a black and white image a 2 color image or a bitonal image Two is the number of different colors that can be achieved by using the image data as 1 bit indexes to a palette The palette can contain colors other than black and white although black and white are most common If an image is grayscale its red green and blue values are all the same and the values are incremented from the lowest to the highest For example an 8 bit grayscale image has 256 shades of gray with values from O to 255 Concepts Color Resolution and Dithering Color resolution also called color depth refers to the number of possible colors in an image as determined by the bits per pixel If an image in your computer is loaded from a FAX scanner or received as a FAX transmission it is a black and white 1 bit image If it is loaded from a color scanner or a JPEG Page 15 fil
20. be used for alignment purposes This saves you time from having to manually select each image For both options you can still drag and drop images from file explorer if you want Blinker This feature lets you load multiple images onto the screen so that you can compare Blink the images to see movement The following screen shows 1 of 3 frames of the planet Uranus You have the option of manually blinking the images or automatically blink them in a loop E P gt Image Blinker Slow 800 ms Medium 400ms Fast 200 ms MV Fitimage in window Start Auto Start Auto Insane 50 ms Backward Forward gt Cancel Page 47 Add Border This feature lets you add a border around the current image There are several predefined borders that you can use Add Border Presets MESE z Margins Effect 3 a Curvedin z Left 36 Top fa Ste Cuvedln _ Cancel ight who Y Right fs Bottom 24 Intensity z T Lock Margins V Smooth Placement Outside y Extent Size 24 Shadows Border MW Use Shadows Style Gradient v Pacano ua Direction Center Out 1 dal let y 3 Start Color MMMM mi End Color MU Canvas Resize Resizes the canvas the image is on Resize Allows you to resize an image using several techniques Resize Original Image New Image Width 720 Height 480 width 1720 1100 Size 1036800 Bytes Height 0 we hoo ee Size 1012 500000 KBytes Horizontal 150 dp
21. by rotating the pixels around the specified center point Usage Simulates the blur of capturing the image while rotating the camera Page 106 Effect Anti Alias Description Applies an anti aliasing filter to the specified image Usage Anti aliasing filter is used to remove alias remove blur smooth edges in an image and smooth jagged diagonal lines Page 107 Before After Page 108 Effect Average Description Changes the color of each pixel in a image to the average color of pixels in its neighborhood This results in a blur effect Usage Removing noise and blur Page 109 Noise Filters Page 110 Effect Remove Hot Pixels Description Removes single pixels from the image caused by cosmic ray hits or by defects of the CCD Usage Use this feature to find and remove hot pixels which are bright isolated points on the image Ei Ca data Deepsky 99 Imaging New v13 history 0059 Loa Io x ES ClipBoard Data 0 Before After Page 111 Effect Median Description Changes the color of each pixel in an image to the median color of pixels in its neighborhood Usage The Median filter can be used to remove negative exponential blur and salt and pepper type of noise while preserving the edge details within an image Page 112 Effect Add Noise Description Adds random pixels to an image letting you specify the percentage of coverage and the color plane Usage Adding random noise
22. image orion 16 fits When it appears on the screen the image appears all white Now click the Auto Level toolbar button and the image will come into view l ve noticed that for many FITS images that Auto Level is needed to see the image One of my favorite options in the software is called Remap Intensity which can be found under the Color menu gt Transform Here you can drag the line on the graph to change the intensity and brightness of the image If you notice hot pixels in your image you can run the Remove Hot Pixels function under the Effects Noise menu Run it more than once to remove more pixels Deepsky Imaging can also be used to enhance your non astronomy images as well There are many tools like red eye reduction and stitch images available for you to use Page 19 Page 20 Quick Tour Deepsky Imaging utilizes an MDI application similar to Microsoft Word and other popular applications This simply allows the user to open as many child windows as they want making it easy to load many different images in the software at the same time The software consists of several toolbars that contain commonly used functions and are customizable The image history toolbar is special lt saves a copy of the image to your hard disk prior to performing some enhancement function on it Thumbnails of these saved images show up in this toolbar and you can click one to load that image back into the editor Each toolbar
23. located in the sample images folder You should see the image as it appears below left Now click the Auto Level button on the toolbar The details of the image will become visible as shown in the right image de Deepsky Image Processing Deepsky Image Processing File Edit View Animation Image Effects Color Preferences Window File Edt View Animation Image Effects Color Preferences Window TEA Ae SCRE GE PI C Program FilesWeepskylmaging sampleimag E AR MI C Program FilesWeepskylmaging sampleimag 2 0 R aA A Di id ig E S Th agg SUPCHS ER SiUFCHS EF You can have Deepsky Imaging auto level the image on Open by clicking the checkbox in Program Options You can also configure the black and white level to adjust the amount of leveling that will be used Options Black Level represents the percentage of black pixels to clip from the 50 bitmap in hundredths of a percent Valid range is from Oto 10000 White Level represents the percentage of pixels to clip from the 500 bitmap in hundredth of a percent Valid range is from Oto 10000 Type of Auto Level to Perform on the image AUTO LEVEL EI Not all images will require leveling all of the time For convenience a comparison tool is also available on the Color menu named Auto Color Level Selection This tool displays four images that you can Page 28 review to see which one looks best You can adjust the black and white settings and s
24. object is a simple line In design mode the line is started on a mouse down event and completed on a mouse up event Holding down the Shift key while drawing the line will draw the line at an angle that is a multiple of 45 degrees In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the default Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the foreground color e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Note Tool The Note annotation object is a rectangle with a shadow border and color background yellow by default It contains a character string with font properties The text will wrap on word breaks within the object s specified rectangle In design mode click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the note will make the Note annotation square A dialog box then lets the user enter the text As soon as the Note object is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While in design mode double click on a text object to edit the text As soon as the Note ob
25. of the image Adjust gt Gamma Adjusts the gamma Adjust gt Balance Colors Redistributes the RGB values of the specified bitmap using the values stored in the specified structures Transform gt Halftone Converts image to a halftoned bitmap Decrease color resolution original values of the pixels with one or more new colors Transform gt Colored Gray Converts a bitmap to a grayscale bitmap then enhances the color components based on the specified parameters This method can be used to give an image a Sepia look Page 51 Remap gt Intensity This method uses a lookup table to change the bitmap s intensity values You can apply the change to red green blue or all color channels Remap gt Hue This method uses a lookup table to change a bitmap s hue values This method can be used to change a range of colors to another range of colors For example it could be used to change all red pixels to any color where a red pixel can have any brightness and any amount of white saturation Histogram gt Equalize Linearizes the of pixels in the bitmap based on the specified color space This can be used to bring out the detail in dark areas of an image Histogram gt Stretch Increases the contrast in a bitmap by centering maximizing Intensity and proportioning the range of intensity values Histogram gt Contrast Increases or decreases the contrast of the image in a bitmap using a histogram to determi
26. quality factors are used JPEG Compliant JPEG and LEAD CMP compression are intended for use with high resolution images and they are impractical for use with 4 or 1 bit images Page 88 You can use the CCITT LEAD 1 bit RLE LZW and ZIPLib compression methods available in many of LEADTOOLS supported formats 8 and 24 bit Images Using JPEG and LEAD CMP or CMW compression color images are 24 bits per pixel and grayscale images are 8 bits per pixel Therefore to compress an 8 bit color image the internal JPEG and LEAD CMP or CMW compression functions must convert the 8 bit data into raw RGB 24 bit before compressing it as a color image Compressing the original 24 bit image will result in a smaller file size and higher quality than compressing an optimized 8 bit color image LEADTOOLS functions compress 8 bit grayscale as 8 bit grayscale JPEG or CMP images You can use RLE LZW and ZIPLib PNG compression methods available in many of the supported formats Summary of All Supported Image File Formats ABIC ABIC Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE _ABIC 1 4 BPP 1 4 BPP 185 Raw ABIC compressed data e AFP AFP Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE AFP 24BPP None 252 IBM This format is part of IBM s document imaging system e ANI Windows Animated Cursor Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE ANI 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24BPP 119 Wi
27. the capture is being done in uncompressed mode Page 39 Sample of Images Taken with Stellacam III and Mallincam Cameras i Mallincam Hyper Color Sept 200 by Steve Tuma Page 40 M20 using Stellacam III four 30 second exposures 12 RCX 400 M51 using Stellacam Ill single 60 second exposure 12 RCX 400 Page 41 Texas S5tar Party 2008 Other Galaxy _ Other Galaxy NGC 4117 i i Other Galaxy gt her Galaxy i gr cc 4111 MCG 7 25 25 A NGC4109 Other Galaxy Other Galaxy Other Galaxy M81 using Stellacam III three 45 second exposures 12 RCX 400 Page 42 Page 43 Deepsky Imaging Tasks The following information gives you a summary of all of the options and features you have available to you in the software File Menu Pa Start a new blank image according to the dimensions you choose E open Open an image from your local or network drive E Reopen gt Reopen Opens an image that was previously opened This is a recent Image E list F Save the currently displayed image to disk Convert Save As Save the currently displayed image to disk allowing you to select the ER format Batch Image Cleanup _ Close Current Image Closes the current window Stitch multiple images into 1 image ee Convert Image conversion program that converts images from one format to GB Advanced Screen Capture another Batch conversion is available ias Browse a f
28. to manually change the encryptor to a decryptor position it correctly and setting the key appropriately When a bitmap that has had portion s of the bitmap encrypted is saved the encryption information is saved with the rest of the annotation information in the associated annotation information file pa Polyruler Tool The polyruler annotation object is an array of points that create a sequence of joined rulers In design mode each line segment is formed with a mouse click and the object is completed on a double click The polyruler can be used to measure the distance of an irregularly shaped object As ruler segments are added removed or changed in length a running total of the total distance is displayed Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rulers will draw the rulers at an angle that is a multiple of 45 degrees In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Ifthe object has multiple nodes Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the bi
29. to the image Page 113 Effect Binary Filter Erosion Description This filter imposes a binary filter on an image It performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Usage This filter can be used for the erosion or dilation of objects removal of noise in an image detect edges smoothing the image and can also be used for area measurement Page 114 Effect Binary Filter Dilation Description This filter imposes a binary filter on an image It performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Usage This filter can be used for the erosion or dilation of objects removal of noise in an image detect edges smoothing the image and can also be used for area measurement Page 115 Effect Deinterlace Description Deinterlaces a video source image Usage Remove interlacing lines from an image taken from a video source Page 116 Sharpening Filters Page 117 Effect Unsharp Mask Description Sharpens the specified image by applying the unsharp mask Unsharpen mask tends to show more details in areas of an image that are normally not visible Usage Unsharp mask is a technique used to enhance the edges of an image remove blur and increase image s sharpness Page 118 Effect Sharpen Description Increases or decreases the sharpness of the image in the specified image Usage Sharpen the image edges Page 119 Effect High Pass Filter Description Removes low frequency details
30. 1 Adjusting Brightness 27 Advanced Capture 24 AFP Format 89 Align amp Combine 47 Align amp Combine by file selection 47 Aligning and Stacking Images 30 Alpha Background Fill 57 Animation 46 Annotation 46 Annotation Cursors 61 Annotation Multi select 60 Annotation Rotate Option 58 Page 217 Annotation Side Handles 60 annotation support for marking up your images 54 Annotation Toolbar 57 Annotations 13 Artistic 50 Audio Clip Tool 66 Auto Color Level Selection 51 Auto Level 28 Auto Level Feature 27 AVI file 89 AVI images 34 35 40 batch conversion 22 Bias Frame 13 Bits per Pixel 15 Blinker 47 Blur 50 BROWSE 22 Button Tool 66 Calculations 50 Calibrate Ruler Feature 62 CALS Raster Format 99 Cancel Region 44 Canon RAW Format 90 Canvas Resize 48 Capture Images 24 CCD 13 Cineon Format 90 CLEAR HISTORY AT START OF PROGRAM 26 Clear Image History at Start of Program 53 Closed Curve Tool 67 Color Merge 52 Color resolution 15 Colorize Grayscale Image 51 Common dialogs used in Deepsky Imaging 25 Compression Quality Factors 86 Compression Using LEAD and JPEG Formats 88 Page 218 Compuserve GIF Format 92 Contrast 27 Convert 22 44 Convert to 12 bit Grayscale 51 Convert to 16 bit Grayscale 51 Convert to 8 bit Grayscale 51 Count Unique Colors 52 Crop to new image 46 Cross Product Tool 67 Curve Tool 68 Customize Palette 52
31. 16 24 32 BPP PackBits Compression and RGB color space FILE _TIF_PACKBITS CMYK 24 32 BPP 24 32 BPP 88 Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and CMYK color space FILE_TIF_PACKBITS YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 95 Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and color YCbCr FILE _TIFLZW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 17 Tagged Image File Format with LAW 16 24 32 48 64 BPP 16 24 32 46 64BPP Compression and RGB color space FILE_TIFLZW_ CMYK 24 32 BPP 24 32 BPP 86 Tagged Image File Format with LAW Compression and CMYK color space FILE_TIFLZW_YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 94 Tagged Image File Format with LAW Compression and YCbCr color space e TIFF Tagged Image File Format CCITT amp TIFX Xerox Internet Fax File Format Consta Read Support Write Description DS FILE CALS CALS 4BPP BPP 4BPP_ 50 CALS Raster fle 0 CALS Raster file FILE CALS2 1 BPP 1 BPP 130 CALS CCITT G4 compressed FILE CALS3 1BPP 1 BPP 131 CALS Fax Group 4 compressed FILE CALS4 1 BPP 1 BPP 129 CALS CCITT GA Tiled Page 97 Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE WFX G3 1D 1BPP 1 BPP 69 Winfax compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension 70 Winfax compressed using CCITT group 4 Constant Read Write Description er rr FILEFAXG 1D FAX G3 1D 66 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension FILE FAX
32. 27 Stitch Bitmaps Together Into LIM iii os 128 AV a O 130 ili 131 Polli E hata les ic dalcihunls ciate ge lneate a Gees acute 132 ZOOM NV AV Ce aie tat a a lo a OS 133 RELEE AEN E EEE AA ani 134 SNI E ch eecem nsec eiatr at eana en saneeneteqaniauatoava ny eencnniaueiestu lange 135 a O eee eee ered es 137 A RN 139 ROVEN SC O E RA 141 Occ Middle leds 142 A LN 145 PONCHA RR ERRO COCO ETA CR ESILIO 146 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Mask Cornvolution embossi i ati 147 Mask CONVOIUTION edge laca nh ila lia 148 Mask Convoluti n splo tE a a A a pi 149 A ENS 150 A O 151 A AES 152 po 0S 6 ee a e ei aaa 153 Pone BERN ill 155 DNC LAC AA E E 156 Adsl 157 IMPRESION ia 160 Ud 162 no O ON 164 DUE Elle IP qm E 166 DI a O O a ereyey ar ere 168 Colo rea ronca lidad 169 A A nd AT iad etuiba bere E sy aka E A telat deals alt licidss 171 TNS VAS arent eae E E A E EE ln ees 172 Pile 173 OO IR SAC Ss coca omnes 174 Gissi 176 VIENE IUG ille 177 IM a 178 o O A II nN er ce 180 Pelate O 181 A iaia 182 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect
33. AD Proprietary 1 bit Compression Format type B FAX Raw Fax Format Constant Read Write Description re O FILE FAX G3 AD FAX _ G3 1D ABPP 66 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension FILE FAX G3 1D NOEOL 162 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension with no EOL FILE FAX G3 2D 1 BPP 67 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 3 2 dimensions FILE FAX G4 Da 4 BPP 68 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 4 Page 99 FAX LaserView LaserData Format k Constant E Read Support Write Support t Description None ICA Image Object Content Architecture IOCA MODCA 121 LaserData CCITT G4 Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_ICA_ABIC 1 4 BPP 1 4 BPP 184 IOCA ABIC compressed FILE_AFPICA_G3_1D 1 BPP 1BPP 309 IOCA G3 1D compressed FILE_AFPICA_G3_2D 1BPP 1BPP 310 IOCA G3 2D compressed FILE_AFPICA_G4 1BPP 1BPP 311 IOCA G4 compressed FILE_AFPICA_UNCOMPRESSED 1BPP 1BPP 312 IOCA uncompressed FILE_AFPICA_IBM_MMR 1BPP 1BPP 313 IOCA IBM MMR compressed FILE_ICA_G3_1D 1BPP 1BPP 71 IOCA compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension FILE_ICA_G3_ 2D 1 BPP 1 BPP 72 IOCA compressed using CCITT group 3 2 dimensions FILE_ICA_G4 1 BPP 1 BPP 73 IOCA compressed using CCITT group 4 FILE_ICA_IBM_MMR 1 BPP 1 BPP 117 IOCA compres
34. C DC40 FILE_KDC_50 24 BPP None 265 KDC DC50 e MPG MPEG Video Format Constant Read Write Description Ge FILE MPEGIO MPEG1 None 243 MPEG 1 video fle MPEG 1 video file FILE_MPEG2 ECN 24 BPP pa None 246 MPEG 2 video file e PBM Portable Bitmap Utilities Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_PBM_BINARY 1BPP 1 BPP 103 Portable Bitmap Binary File FILE_PBM_ASCII 1BPP 1 BPP 102 Portable Bitmap ASCII File FILE_PGM_BINARY 8 BPP Grayscale 8 BPP BPP Grayscale 105 Portable Greymap Binary File FILE_PGM_ASCII 8 BPP Grayscale 8 BPP Grayscale 104 Portable Greymap ASCII File FILE PPM_BINARY 24 BPP 24 BPP 107 Portable Pixelmap Binary File FILE PPM_ASCI 24 BPP 24 BPP 106 Portable Pixelmap ASCII File Page 94 PCD Kodak Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FALE PCD 8 24 BPP None 57 Kodak PhotoCD HLE_FPX 8 24 BPP 8 24 BPP 80 FlashPix with no compression FILE_FPX_SINGLE COLOR 8 24 BPP cime 24 BPP 81 FlashPix compressed with the single color method FILE FPX JPEG 8 24 BPP a 24 BPP eos FlashFix compressed with JPEG using the default Q factor FILE _FPX JPEG GQFACTOR 8 24 BPP 8 24 BPP 83 FlashFix compressed with JPEG using a specified Q factor PCT Macintosh Pict Format Constant Raster Read Support Raster
35. CbCr color space FILE_TIF_PACKBITS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 87 Tagged Image File Format with 16 24 32 BPP 16 24 32 BPP PackBits Compression and RGB color space FILE_TIF_PACKBITS CMYK 24 32 BPP 24 32 BPP 88 Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and CMYK color space FILE_TIF_PACKBITS_YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 95 Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and color YCbCr space FILE_TIFLAW 1 2 3 4 5 6 T 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 17 Tagged Image File Format with LAW 16 24 32 48 64 BPP 16 24 32 46 64 BPP Compression and RGB color space FILE _TIFLAW CMYK 24 32 BPP 24 32 BPP 86 Tagged Image File Format with LAW Compression and CMYK color space FILE _TIFLZAW YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 94 Tagged Image File Format with LAW Compression and YCbCr color space and YCbCr color space ese __ Constant E Read Support Rend Support w Write Support ssi le Description FILE TIF 1 2 34 5 6 7 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 Tagged Image File Format with no 16 24 32 48 64 BPP 16 24 32 45 64 BPP compression and with RGB color space FILE_TIF_CMYK 24 32 BPP 24 32 BPP 85 Tagged Image File Format with no compression and with CMYK color space FILE TIF_YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 93 Tagged Image File Format with no compression and with YCbCr color space FILE_TIF_PACKBITS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 87 Tagged Image File Format with 16 24 32 BPP
36. Continuous Tone Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE SCI 24 BPP 24 BPP 250 Scitex Continuous Tone Format SFF Structured Fax File Format Constant Read Write Support Description Support HLE SFF 1BPP 1 BPP 302 Structured Fax File Format SGI Silicon Graphics Image Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE SGl 8 24 32 BPP 8 24 32 BPP 142 Silicon Graphics Image uncompressed FILE SGI RLE 8 24 32 BPP 8 24 32 BPP 143 Silicon Graphics Image RLE compressed SID MrSid Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_SID 24 BPP None 306 MrSid Format TGA Truevision TARGA Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE _TGA 6 16 24 32 BPP 6 16 24 32BPP 4 TARGA uncompressed FILE TGA RLE 8 16 24 32 BPP 8 16 24 32 BPP 262 TARGA RLE compressed Page 96 e TIFF Tagged Image File Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE TIF 1 2 3 4 5 6 T 8 1 27 3 4 5 6 f 4 3 Tagged Image File Format with no 16 24 32 46 64 BPP 16 24 32 48 64 BPP compression and with RGB color space FILE_TIF_CMYK 24 32 BPP 24 32 BPP 85 Tagged Image File Format with no compression and with CMYK color space FILE TIF _YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 93 Tagged Image File Format with no compression and with Y
37. Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect A aiina io iii E A 183 E DA ace Eg a eee nce ee ea 185 SmootrEdg 6sch illa 187 Edge Detect EEC mirosne E E 188 Spaual Gradient erae E E E teenth Wiech bg cdadsaucseacindtcs 190 Spatial Laplace A aa 191 Spatial SO ae o E O 192 A elia 193 Spatial SNTE S DIME rente dada 194 Spatial LIM SN tl o e OS 195 Annotation Add VOUROWN TU A a a Sioa bda ts 197 Rodina 198 Nicea 199 NL y AA mn ie lle 201 Nntens it Detecta aa 202 SO zada 203 PO SUC O 204 Brightness Contrast Ena Meta is 205 Maa A EE 206 HU 207 A O RO 208 SAN OS 209 Color Balan O O es 210 Convert TO COO PEO Gra Van del dedicas 211 Reman INCAS ia AS nant santlvcie cee yard ten tontouie beasts 212 REMAP etal lella 213 Effect Math FUNCION lela ale cat act tats oll etl als Aiea a laine Lael ie lad 214 Effect Histogram EQUallZe Laino 215 EMect FIStOP hall COME AS tation ace lilla 216 Page Revision History Version 1 1 Initial Release March 2009 Version 1 2 2 May 2009 NEW Added AVI Capture to the capture screen as its own tab Now you can capture to a raw AVI file which is the preferred method for solar system imaging NEW Added the ability to specify the path to where your captures get stored It still defaults to the MyCaptureVideo folder but now you can change that in preferences NEW Added Batch Image Cleanup to the FILE menu This lets you apply leveling de interlaci
38. Format 99 Microsoft Paint 101 Microsoft Windows Clipboard Format 90 MPEG Video Format 94 MrSid Format 96 New 44 Noise 50 Note Tool 75 OK click this button to apply your changes to your main image 26 Open 44 Open an Image 22 Page 223 optimized palette 17 Ordered dithering 16 Paint Scaling 53 Paint Shop Pro Format 95 Palette Handling 17 palette shift 17 Pan Window 14 45 PCX Format 95 PhotoShop 3 0 Format 95 Pixelate 50 Point Tool 76 Pointer Tool 77 Polygon Tool 77 Polyline Tool 78 Polyruler Tool 71 Portable Bitmap Utilities Format 94 Portable Network Graphics Format 95 Posterize 51 Printing Images 23 Program Options 28 53 Protractor Tool 78 PTOCA Format 95 Push Pin Tool 79 Q Factor 87 Raw Fax Format 99 Rectangle Tool 80 Redaction Tool 81 Region 14 Region Capture 24 Remap gt Hue 52 Remap gt Intensity 52 Remove Red Eye 47 Reopen 44 Reset Image 26 Reset Preferences 53 Resize 48 Page 224 Reverse 46 Rich Text Tool 72 Rotate 46 Rubber Stamp Display Style 56 RULER PROPERTIES 55 Ruler Tool 81 sampleimages 31 Save As 44 SAVE AS 22 Saving Images 22 Scale Mode 26 Scitex Continuous Tone Format 96 screen capture 11 Select Region 44 Select Your Scanner 44 Selection Pointer Tool 82 Separate 52 Sharpen 50 Shear 46 Show the Image History Toolbar 53 Silicon Graphics Image Format 96 Snap Wind
39. G3 1D NOEOL 1BPP 1BPP E pen Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension with no EOL FILE FAX G3 2D 1BPP 1BPP 67 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 3 2 dimensions FILE FAX G4 FAX G4 ABPP 68 Raw FAX compressed using CCITT group 4 Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE AWD 1 BPP 1 BPP 99 Microsoft FAX format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_TIFX_JBIG 1 BPP 1BPP 269 TIFF FX format JBIG compressed FILE _TIFX_JBIG T43 3 BPP 3 BPP 270 TIFF FX format JBIG compressed FILE _TIFX_JBIG T43 ITULAB 8 BPP 8 BPP 271 TIFF FX format JBIG compressed FILE _TIFX_JBIG T43_ GS m 1 BPF 272 TIFF FX format JBIG compressed FILE TIFA_FAX G4 273 TIFF FX format compressed using CCITT group 4 FILE TIFX FAX G3 1D 274 TIFF FX format compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension EMERALD TIFAFAX G3 2D tere pra TIFF FX format compressed using CCITT group 3 2 dimensions FILE_TIFX_JPEG Ser TIFF FX format JPEG compressed dA AN 24 BPP 24 BPP WBMP Wireless Bitmap Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE WBMP 1 BPP 1 BPP 170 Wireless Bitmap WME Windows Metafile Formats Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_WMF Yes Yes 15 Windows Metafile FILE EMF Yes Yes 116 Windows Enhanced Metafile WPG WordPerfect Format Constan
40. Interchange File 8 24 BPP 8 24 BPP Uncompressed 1 112 3 4 5 6 7 304 Interchange File FILE_IFF_CAT UNCOMPRESSED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 24 BPP 6 24 BPP multiple images per file Uncompressed JBG JBIG Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description 4 4 4 9 4 f 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 amp 12 115 JBIG FILE TIF_JBIG 139 TIFF with JBIG compression 8 12 16 24 32 BPP 16 24 32 BPP Page 93 e JPG JPEG Compressed Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_CMP 6 BPP Grayscale 5 LEAD CMP ce 24 BPP compressed format 24 BPP HLE JPEG 3 12 16 BPP 8 12 16 BPP 10 JPEG File Grayscale Grayscale Interchange Format 24 BPP 24 BPP FILE JPEG 411 8 BPP 8 BPP Grayscale 21 JPEG File Grayscale 24 BPP Interchange Format 24 BPP 411 FILE JPEG 422 8 BPP Grayscale 21 JPEG File al 24 BPP Interchange Format 24 BPP AZIZ FILE JPEG LAB 24 BPP 24 BPP 171 JPEG File Interchange Format CieLAB 4 4 4 FILE JPEG LAB 411 24 BPP 24 BPP 172 JPEG File Interchange Format CieLAB 4 1 1 FILE JPEG LAB 422 24 BPP 24 BPP 173 JPEG File Interchange Format CieLAB 4 2 2 FILE JPEG RGB 24 BPP 24 BPP 162 JPEG File Interchange Format RGB DA 4 4 e KDC Kodak Digital Camera Format Consta Read Support E Write Support Description FILE KDC_120 24 BPP 263 KDC DC120 FILE KDC 40 24 BPP None 264 KD
41. Shift key while drawing the CrossProduct will make the CrossProduct annotation square In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the fill mode e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Change the measurement units precision and gauge length Set show flags e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects E Closed Curve Tool The closed curve annotation object ANN_OBJECT_CURVECLOSED is a sequence of points that are joined by cubic polynomials such that adjacent polynomials are continuous at the first and second Page 67 derivates Unlike the curve annotation object the first and last endpoints are also joined by a curve The result is a smooth continuous closed curve going through all the points In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the fro
42. Vrite Support ves Vector Read Support E Vector Write Support Description FILE PCT 1 4 8 16 24 BPP 1 4 8 16 24 BPP 56 Spar QuickDr PCX PCX Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE PCX 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 3 24 BPP 1 Soft PCX PNG Portable Network Graphics Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE PNG 1 4 8 16 24 32 BPP 1 4 8 24 32 BPP 75 Portable Network Graphics PNG PSD PhotoShop 3 0 Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE PSD 1 8 16 1 8 24 BPP 76 Adobe Photoshop 3 0 24 BPP PSP Paint Shop Pro Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE PSP 1 4 8 BPP Grayscale 1 4 8 BPP Grayscale 267 PaintShop Pro Format 8 24 BPP Color 8 24 BPP Color FILE_PSP_RLE 1 4 8 BPP Grayscale 1 4 8 BPP Grayscale PTK PTOCA Format 8 24 BPP Color 8 24 BPP Color Constant Read ad Description Support 266 PaintShop Pro Format RLE Compressed FILE PTOCA 24 BPP 249 Presentation Text Object Content Architecture format Page 95 RAS SUN Raster Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE RAS 1 4 8 24 32 BPP 1 4 8 24 32 BPP 55 Sun Raster uncompressed FILE_ RAS RLE 1 4 8 24 32 BPP 1 4 8 24 32 BPP 288 Sun Raster RLE compressed SCT Scitex
43. _OBJECT_TEXT object 2 Right click the object 3 Select Text Properties and then Text 4 In the Text dialog select the Show Border check box bi Click the Text Color button to change the color to blue The following figure displays the Text dialog Name Line Fil Text Fixed AaBbYyZz Basic colors MI SM See NM NS RENE ies f Imi fF ie fee EG Text Color fono EEE eee ee iS E V Show Text V Expand Token KM Show Border OS EE ee eee Alignment Rotation e ES E ro i y Gi uN Left fe None Center 30 Cc Define Custom Colors gt gt 6 The following figure displays the original text object before and after changing the text color to blue AaBbY ydr Original Text Annotation AaBbY ydr After changing Text Color and Show Border options Page 65 Annotation Tools Available The following tools are available on the annotation toolbar when you are in design mode Audio Clip Tool The audio clip annotation object is a rectangle containing a scaled image that can be activated to play a WAV file In design mode you can click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window A dialog box then lets you specify the WAV file In run mode clicking on the icon plays the WAV file In design mode you can click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the obje
44. age 56 New XP Style Annotation Toolbar The annotation toolbar has been updated to have a Windows XP look and feel The following figure displays a sample of the original style and the new style toolbar New Alpha Background Fill Option Previous versions of LEADTOOLS supported annotations with translucent backgrounds With version 14 5 there is an alpha option that allows you to specify an alpha value from O completely transparent background to 255 completely opaque background inclusive When enabled you can right click an annotation object to display the Fill dialog with the new alpha option Here you can enter an alpha value from O 255 inclusive The following figure displays the Fill dialog for the Stamp object Stamp Froperties Name Line ROP2 Fil Text Fixed Mode Alpha 0 255 liga ooo Patterns Folgar H Page 57 The following figure displays rectangle annotation objects using different alpha values New Annotation Rotate Option In previous versions of LEADTOOLS annotation objects could be rotated by holding the lt SHIFT gt key while dragging a handle With the new rotate options two rotate handles are displayed on a selected object One of the handles is the gripper handle which rotates the object when dragged The other handle is the center handle which determines the center of rotation The center of rotation can be moved by dragging The gripper handle can be moved anywhere by dra
45. apture When you release the mouse button the image will be transferred back into Deepsky Imaging Page 24 Common dialogs used in Deepsky Imaging Before we take off looking at all of the options Deepsky Imaging gives you want to briefly touch on dialog screens you will see when using the software These dialogs give you the opportunity to apply some effect to the preview image prior to applying the effect to the main image A simple dialog screen such as the Brightness adjustment dialog provides a simple slider to adjust the brightness If you click OK the effect will be applied to your image Before m Percentage 72 E fi oK Cancel Other dialog screens may have additional options For instance the Add Shadow screen lets you create a 3D effect on the image which mimics shadows Add Shadow Before Direction Shadows 0 East 0 Colored 2 Threshold me es jo 1 A A 1 Reset Image Page 25 Each screen will have controls that let you adjust the size of the image The common controls include Scale Mode you can adjust the scale mode A to view the image at a normal size or view it so that the entire image fits the preview screen If the image is larger than the preview screen and you have 1 1 set you can use the mouse to drag the image around until you find the point of interest you are looking at Reset Image this bu
46. at Bias Offset Alignment Intermediate Files 1 gt Options Standard Mode Settings The result of the stacking process is framed Raw FITS DDP veli by the reference light frame Load Mosaic Mode Save The result of the stacking process contains Recenti all the light frames of the stack About DeepSkyStacker C Enable 2x Drizzle Enable 3x Drizzle C Align RGB Channels in final image Temporary Files Folder C DOCUME 1 STEVE LOCALS 1 Temp C Reduce worker threads priority Use all available processors Now go to the OUTPUT tab you can hit the right arrow to see more tabs and make sure the OUTPUT FILE NAME show highlighted below is set to Autosave tif Deepsky Imaging expects the final image from Deepsky Stacker to be called this name Stacking Parameters Dark Flat Output Files settings Create Output file C Create HTML description file Outpul e Mame ber to avoid file overwrite 001 002 Output Location 2 Create Output file in the folder of the reference frame Create Output file in the folder of the file list Create Output file in lt Output Folder gt Temporary Files Folder C DOCUME 1 STEVE LOCALS 1 Temp Reduce worker threads priority V Use all available processors Page 30 Once you have them set the way you want click SAVE You can now use the Deepsky Stacker Interface Using the Deepsky Stacker Interface To see the Deepsky Stacker Interface in acti
47. ayscale compressed format 24 BPP 24 BPP CRW Canon RAW Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE _ CRW 24 BPP ON None 296 Cannon raw format CUR Windows Cursors and Icons Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE WIN_ICO 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24 BPP 91 Windows Icon FILE WIN_CUR 1 4 6 24 BPP 1 4 6 24 BPP 92 Windows Cursor CUT Dr Halo Format Constant Read Support Write Description Support FILE_CUT 8 BPP 8 BPP 108 Dr Halo Page 90 DCR Kodak Professional Digital Camera Format Consta nt Read Support Write Support Description FILE DCR 48 BPP None 292 Kodak Professional Digital Camera Format pao Kodak Professional Digital Camera System Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE DCS 16 Grayscale None 266 Kodak Professional 24 BPP Digital Camera System Format DCX DCX Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE PCX 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 Soft PCX DJVU DjVu Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE DJVU 1 8 24 BPP None 306 LizardTech DjVu ECW Enhanced Compressed Wavelet Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE ECW 24 BPP 24 BPP 277 ER Mapper Enhanced Compressed Wavelet EMF Windows Metafile Formats Co
48. care of using the first frame of each AVI file You simply drag the AVI files into the Deepsky Stacker Interface and start stacking away No more having to manually extract a single frame from your AVI files New Data Single Raw Frame from Stacked using Deepsky Stellacam Ill Stacker via DSI 4 frames Notice how this image has more noise in it Page 33 Interfacing to Stellacam Mallincam 8 Other Video CCD cameras As a newcomer to the world of CCD imaging started out using a Stellacam Il and then III video cameras for recording my images These cameras are good for taking short exposure integrated videos of deep sky objects but you have to capture the video using a capture card and save the video as an AVI file If you own a Stellacam or a Mallincam you will know that these cameras are integrating cameras that accumulate frames as the image is being taken Once the image is complete you can capture the image as an AVI file and convert it into a TIF or other bitmap Since the camera only outputs video you will need to capture it using a USB capture card that connects the camera to the USB capture card Deepsky Imaging includes video capture support for Video CCD cameras that output composite or SVideo This includes the Stellacam and Mallincam line of cameras Video CCD cameras do an excellent job of capturing deep sky objects and are ideal for beginners of astronomical imaging because good results can be obtained on an al
49. created as color separations using the CMY color space model Counts the of unique colors in the image Customize the Palette Page 52 Preferences Menu Preferences Window Help Program Options Sets various options used in Deepsky Imaging Yz Program Options i Reset Preferences Resets all preferences to their default values Reset Preferences Requires Program Restart Dithering Dithering Sets the dithering method to use on 8 bit images Paint Scaling 7 j 4 e Paint Scaling Sets the type of resizing to use when painting an image Show the Image History Toolbar Specifies whether to force use of a fixed palette when Ee eee a painting images on a device that displays 256 colors or less Show the Image Specifies whether the image history toolbar is visible This History Toolbar toolbar is used to maintain a history of all image changes allowing you to get back to a prior state Clear Image History at When checked the image history will be cleared when the Start of Program program starts Page 53 Annotations Summary Deepsky imaging includes very robust annotation support for marking up your images Annotations can be maintained separately from bitmaps or they can be merged onto the image When you add an annotation to an image and save the file a separate annotation file named the same as the image but with a ANN file extension is created Try opening the Moon with Annotations image in t
50. ct to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Select a WAV file to load into the object e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects 4 Button Tool The button annotation object is an image of a standard Windows button that can be activated In design mode you can click and drag to specify the size of the button in the current window A dialog box then lets you enter the text for the button In design mode you can then click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back Page 66 e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the fill mode e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Note Only certain font characteristics can be changed for the button tool e Edit the text e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects drm Cross Product Tool The CrossProduct annotation object consists of two simple lines intersecting at right angles With the automated functions the CrossProduct is started on a mouse down event and completed on a mouse up event Holding down the
51. e it can have 16 million colors If it is loaded from a GIF file it is likely to have 256 colors There are many possibilities ranging from two colors to over 16 million This software lets you manipulate an image and display it on any Windows compatible device regardless of the image s color resolution Therefore in most cases you can load display modify and save an image without ever changing its color resolution Nevertheless in some cases you may need to increase or decrease the color resolution Here are some examples e Suppose you need to load a large 24 bit image on a computer that does not have much memory You can conserve memory by loading it as an 8 bit image Then if you were using an 8 bit display device you would not see any difference in the quality of the image Of course there would be some loss of quality on a 24 bit display device and the loss would be permanent if you then saved the image in the same file e Suppose you want to save an image in a different file format If the new file format does not support the original color resolution you can specify a different color resolution when you save the image e Suppose you want to combine one 8 bit image with another one To combine two images they must have the same color resolution and if they are less than 16 bits per pixel they must use the same palette The simplest solution is to convert both images to 24 bits per pixel before combining them Then if necessary
52. e fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects e Flip the object Page 6 e The Pointer annotation object is defined by two points with the an arrow at the first point In design mode click and drag to specify the points in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the pointer will draw the pointer annotation object at an angle that is a multiple of 45 degrees Pointer Tool In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operations ROP2 code e Change the foreground color e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects a Polygon Tool The Polygon annotation object is an array of points that define the vertices of a polygon In design mode each line segment is formed with a mouse click and the object is completed on a double click which closes the polygon with a line from the last point to the first point In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to
53. e object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects Page 81 e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the fill mode e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Change the measurement units precision and gauge length Set the show flags e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects E Selection Pointer Tool The selection pointer is the mouse pointer for selecting and manipulating annotation objects in design mode With the selection pointer you can select one or more objects as follows e You can select a single object by clicking on the object e You can click and drag to form a rectangular selection area that will select all objects that are completely contained within it You can hold down the shift key and click on several objects one at a time to select them all e Change the fixed properties When an object is selected handles appear on the corners of its bounding rectangle You can click on the body of the object and drag it to another position You can click on a handle and drag to resize the object If more than one object is selected all of them are moved or resized In addition you can use this pointer to rotate an obj
54. e zoomed display e Set the contrast gamma and intensity for the zoomed area Pan Window The Pan Window is a small window which will display a scaled view of a bitmap which is also being displayed in the Main Control s window at a size that would require scrolling The Pan Window will maintain the image s aspect ratio In the Pan Window a colored Pan Rect will be displayed to indicate the portion of the image currently being displayed in the main window When a user clicks inside the Pan Window and moves the mouse while holding down the button the Pan Rect will move with the mouse pointer Region A bitmap region is an area of interest within an image A bitmap can have only one region at a time but the region can be complex including for example multiple noncontiguous shapes Deepsky Imaging allows you to perform most filtering and other enhancement tasks on the selected region Zoom View This Zoom View provides a means of zooming in on the image loaded into the window to which it is attached As the source rectangle is moved over an image the zoomed in view also changes This is similar to having multiple Magnifying Glasses on the same source image Use the Zoom View if you want to e display one or more zoomed views for a single displayed image e display an annotation in addition to the zoomed view e display callout lines Note that a magnifying glass is also available that can be attached to a window handle Use the Magn
55. ect If you hold down the shift key click on a handle and drag the mouse the object rotates If more than one object is selected all of them are rotated using the center of the group as the center of rotation You cannot rotate a note button or audio clip If you rotate a group that includes one of these objects the object will move to the new position but will retain its orientation The popup menu is also affected if more than one object is selected In that case when you click the right mouse button the popup menu lets you change the properties of all the selected objects and it lets you delete all the selected objects 63 Stamp Tool The Stamp annotation object ANN_OBJECT_STAMP can be a bitmap image a metafile or a text string in a rectangular frame Only one of these three can be displayed at any time setting the object to one Page 82 of these destroys any settings for the other two Initially the ANN_OBJECT_STAMP displays text In design mode click and drag to specify a rectangle Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rectangle will make the Stamp annotation square Then if a text string is specified the text is centered in the rectangle If a bitmap or metafile is specified the bitmap or metafile is scaled to fit the rectangle In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object
56. eepsky Imaging includes a very robust annotation feature that lets you add text and other markup to your images without actually affecting the images You can add hotspots as well that link to web sites There s a lot of functionality there if you are interested in it You can open an AVI and MPEG video file to retrieve the first frame of the image Unlock other software only one image will be presented to you This is useful if you are a Stellacam user who captures integrated video images with the Stellacam Il or Ill use this method myself and it saves a lot of time This software will read 8 16 and 32 bit FITS images Currently SAVE support is disabled for FITS but this will be added in the future When a FITS image is shown on screen you can click the FITS header icon Fi to view information about the image Use the Blinker feature to see if any movement can be detected in your images that you take over time Deepsky Imaging includes over 100 imaging effects that can be used to artistically enhance your images The opening splash screen used the Lens Flare effect under the Effects gt Artistic menu The end of this manual includes many examples showing you what these effects will do to your images You have the ability to preview all effect changes prior to applying them to your image The Auto Level button on the main toolbar can be used to automatically adjust the brightness of the image To see how this works open the sample
57. eing imaged This information will be a part of the file name for each saved image Session Capture History will contain a history of objects that you have imaged during this session You can go back later and select one from the list and take additional images and they will be stored in the same folder For example let s say you take 5 exposures of M17 and the name you gave is M17 30 seconds You then move on to another object If you wanted to later in your observing session take additional images of M17 you can select M17 from the history list and all new images will be stored in the same folder as before Single Frame Manual Capture is used to capture 1 integrated frame The image will be saved to the folder name you indicate in Set Object Being Imaged You might use this option if using the red switch on the Stellacam III to control the exposure Capture a series of images will enable you to image the same object at different intervals all automatically For example you can enter 30 for the interval and 10 for the Stop after Count to capture 10 images of 30 seconds each Once captured you would later stack the 10 images to achieve a Page 38 final averaged image that contains less noise You can also control stopping the sequence manually if you are not sure how many images you will take The Goto Capture Folder will open Windows Explorer so that you can manage your images Click the Return Current Captured I
58. elect the image you want to use Auto Level Black Auto Contrast rr Scale Mode 2 Ft E Get Detaut Pare ox cana Page 29 Aligning and Stacking Images Taking multiple short exposure images of your favorite deep sky object is common practice these days in order to average out the noise in each individual image resulting in a better quality image Deepsky Imaging provides an excellent interface into Deepsky Stacker which allows you to take advantage of all of its stacking features Before using this interface it is important to go into Deepsky Stacker and set your settings because Deepsky Stacker uses those settings when you are in the Deepsky Stacker Interface Make sure your settings are saved Deepsky Stacker can be downloaded free http deepskystacker free fr Deepsky Stacker is an awesome program for stacking images If you are new to imaging you might not know which settings to use The best thing to do is to learn how Deepsky Stacker works and review its help manual When first started using Deepsky Stacker was up and running stacking images in 15 minutes or so Go to the options area in Deepsky Stacker and look at the various options Start with SETTINGS as shown below went to the LIGHT tab and selected MEDIAN for the stacking mode Create a Star Mask Stacking Parameters Save picture to file essi Result Comet Light Dark A
59. erties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the fill mode e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the measurement units precision and gauge length Set show flags e Set the protractor options e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Push Pin Tool The PushPin annotation object ANN_OBJECT_PUSHPIN is a rectangle containing a scaled image that can be activated to show a hidden note With the automated functions in design mode the user clicks and drags to specify the rectangle in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the PushPin will make the PushPin annotation square A dialog box then lets the user specify the preferred options In run mode clicking on the icon display the hidden note A PushPin object has a primary bitmap manipulated using the AnnSetBitmap method and the AnnGetBitmap method when the text is shown and a secondary bitmap changed using the AnnPredefinedRaster property The primary bitmap is shown with the note text The secondary bitmap is shown by itself when the note is minimized In design mode the PushPin object shows the text and displays the primary bitmap In run mode the object shows hides the text when clicked As soon as the PushPin object is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While in design mode double click on a PushPin object to edi
60. etup StllCapture __ AVI Capture _ Select your Capture Device Capture Size Recommended Perform Test Capture does not save to disk Capture Setting AVerMedia Capture 320x240 352 x 288 640x480 Stellacam Mallincam E 640x576 720x480 Stellacam Mallincam C 720x576 756x520 Mallincam Custom Capture Video Frame CLEAR Capture Folder Captured i s will be placed Q C Program Files x86 Deepskylmaging MyVideoCapture Close The video preview window is where the live video will be shown You can view the video in Normal mode or Full Screen mode Full Screen mode is useful for focusing or for viewing live images however you will need to return to Normal mode to capture images You can go into Full Screen mode by clicking the FULL SCREEN MODE icon on the toolbar To return to Normal Mode you can click the EXIT FULL SCREEN button While in either mode you can also adjust some video parameters under Video Settings to brighten or darken the image TIP Use Full Screen mode to help achieve focus or to view live video Clicking the Display the video double its normal size icon will show an even larger image Capture Window The window will show you a single frame capture of the object you are imaging This image is the result of the integrated exposure from the camera Setup Tab The Setup tab is where you select your capture device capture size perform a manua ees quick cap
61. ge 159 Effect Impressionist Description Makes an image looks like as if painted by an impressionist painter Usage Makes the image to look as if painted by an impressionist painter Page 160 Page 161 Effect Oilify Description Applies an oil painting effect to the image Usage Produce an artistic effect for a fine arts or commercial project Page 162 Page 163 Effect Glow Description Makes the colored edges shine with a neon glow Usage Detect image edges and give them an artistic look Page 164 Page 165 Effect Diffuse Glow Description Adds a colored glow to an image s light or dark areas making these areas shine with a neon glow Usage Add glow and some noise to the image Page 166 Page 167 Effect Dry Description This function simulates what would happen if the image had just been painted with paints and the paints were allowed to dry Usage Reduce the image colors to make it as a dried painting to produce an artistic effect for a fine arts or commercial project Page 168 Effect Colored Pencil Description Applies an effect to an image that makes it look like it has been drawn with colored pencils Usage Applies an artistic effect to a image that makes it look like it has been drawn with colored pencils Page 169 Page 170 Effect Clouds Description Applies the cloud effect on the image by generating clouds according to a given seed value U
62. ger file than the next option it retains better edges Page 86 SQT MCQ MC 7 Size more important than quality less tiling This option produces less tiling in the image than the previous options However it may distort text or straight lines It is a good option for image database applications 8 Maximum compression keeping quality This option provides maximum compression while maintaining as high as possible image quality 9 Maximum compression This option gives maximum compression It is equivalent to a Q factor of 255 For the PNG format the qFactor can be a value between 0 and 9 0 default compression 1 fastest For the ABC compression FILE_ABC and FILE_TIF_ABC the qFactor can be one of the following values Q Factor QFACTOR_ABCQ_LOSSLESS QFACTOR_ABCQ_VIRTUALLOSSLESS QFACTOR_ABCQ_REMOVEBORDER QFACTOR_ABCQ_ENHANCE QFACTOR_ABCQ_MODIFIED1 QFACTOR_ABCQ_MODIFIED1_FAST QFACTOR_ABCQ_MODIFIED2 QFACTOR_ABCQ_MODIFIED2_FAST QFACTOR_ABCQ_MODIFIED3 Predefined options for LEAD only 0 Lossless compression This option compresses a 1 bit file and maintains image data unchanged Highest quality 1 Lossy compression This option removes the image s noisy pixels and compresses it to a smaller file size than ABCQ_LOSSLESS 2 Lossy compression This option removes the image s border if it exists and compresses it to a smaller file size than ABCQ_ VIRTUALLOSSLESS 3 Lossy compressi
63. gging Page 58 The following figure illustrates a rotate by dragging the gripper handle S E S Left Click Gripper Drag Gripper Handle Release Mouse Button Handle The following figure illustrates moving the center handle Release Mouse Rotate Around New Center Page 59 The rotate handles can be reset to a default location by right clicking the annotation object and selecting the Reset Rotate Handles option as shown in the following figure o o op nn base Delete nni nino o Bring bot Pont zii ged to Baek o The rotate handles can be globally hidden or displayed by right clicking on the image not an annotation object and selecting the Hide Rotate Handles For All Objects option as shown in the following figure Undo Cut Paste ete Select All Bring to Front Send to Bat Lock All Unlock All Hide Rotate Handles For All Objects Default Properties New Annotation Side Handles In previous versions of LEADTOOLS rectangular annotation objects were displayed with four handles to manipulate the object With this new feature rectangular objects are displayed with four additional side handles Dragging the side handles resizes the annotation object only in one dimension Dragging the corner handles resizes the object in two dimensions preserving the aspect ratio The following figure displays a sample of the original style and the new style New Annotati
64. he sampleimages folder Mame Samples for Aligning and Stac car fit deinterlace jpg IMG_7577 CR2 m65_cal fit m82 fit E dra ss n moonshadows png When the image opens you will see the moon with a bunch of annotations on it Initially when the image is first loaded the annotation mode is NORMAL which means you can t change the annotations If you go into DESIGN mode you will be able to edit the annotations Remember when you are in design mode you can add or remove annotations Make sure you switch to normal mode to ensure you don t inadvertently remove annotations Annotations Off le Flip Vertical Normal Mode Be Fp Horizon Crop to New Image Merge Annotations with Image Reverse a A r a 2 a A If you know that you will never change the annotations you can use the MERGE ANNOTATION WITH IMAGE option to permanently place the markup onto the image Once you do this the annotations are gone and only the image remains Page 54 Annotation Properties When you are in design mode each annotation has many properties that you can set to change the appearance of the annotation Simply right click and select the properties in the above example it s RULER PROPERTIES and you will see a screen similar to the below screen Ruler Properties Name Line ROP2 Fill Ruler Fixed W Show Name Location Mame Offset se jo Foreground Color Y o Background Color
65. he bitmap Spatial filters are used for operations such as sharpening an image or detecting edges within the image Gradient Laplacian Sobel Prewitt Shift and Difference Line Segment Page 50 Color Menu Color Preferences Window Help Auto Color Level Selection This feature displays 4 images Original Auto Level Auto Contrast amp Auto Intensity You can then change the black and white sliders until you get the effect you like Then select the image you want to use and click id Auto Color Level Selection fo Auto Image Level All Open Windows Colorize Grayscale Image IS Invert OK lm Convert to 8 bit Grayscale Bn Convert to 12 bit Grayscale This method makes the dark values darker and the light values lighter fn Convert to 16 bit Grayscale which automatically enhances shadows and brightens the image It also Tey maximizes the tonal range of the image It enhances the contrast and Ol Solrize intensity using the image s histogram and a color distribution based Posterize algorithm Taai i Windows AUTO LEVEL button found on the toolbar to each window Remap Colorize Grayscale Image Changes the distribution of the red green or blue channels The method E Histogram gt can be used as a visualization aid More precisely this method can be O Fil a used to show variations in a bitmap s intensity values This method colors Separate gt the grayscale bitmap by converting specified ranges of grayscale amp Col
66. he fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects 2 1 Freehand Hot Spot Tool The freehand hot spot annotation object is an array of points that create a sequence of joined lines With the automated functions in design mode each line segment is formed with a mouse move when Page 72 the left button is down and the object is completed on a mouse up In run mode the object is transparent but the mouse pointer changes to a hand when it is over the object In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e If the object has multiple nodes Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the name e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the node properties e Select a metafile to load into the Freehand Hotspot e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Ela Line Tool The freehand line annotation object is an array of points that create a sequence of joined lines
67. he image look like as if it has been punched Page 146 Effect Mask Convolution emboss Description When an image undergoes image convolution each pixel of the image is multiplied by a mask to create a new pixel value The mask is an array of values that describes the weight that should be given to each of the pixels surrounding a specific pixel The new pixel value is the result of the mask sum being divided by the mask weight Using different masks result in different alterations of the image Usage For applying various 3D effects to the image Page 147 Effect Mask Convolution edge Description When an image undergoes image convolution each pixel of the image is multiplied by a mask to create a new pixel value The mask is an array of values that describes the weight that should be given to each of the pixels surrounding a specific pixel The new pixel value is the result of the mask sum being divided by the mask weight Using different masks result in different alterations of the image Usage For applying various 3D effects to the image Page 148 Effect Mask Convolution splotch Description When an image undergoes image convolution each pixel of the image is multiplied by a mask to create a new pixel value The mask is an array of values that describes the weight that should be given to each of the pixels surrounding a specific pixel The new pixel value is the result of the mask sum being divided by the mask weigh
68. he image with its shifted copies to make artistic view Page 178 Miscellaneous Effects Page 179 Effect Underlay Description Put an image underneath another image Usage artistic effect Page 180 Effect Pixelate Description Divides the image into rectangular or circular cells and then recreates the image by filling those cells with the minimum maximum or average pixel value depending upon the effect that was selected Usage Divides the image into rectangular or circular cells Page 181 Effect Mosaic Description Imposes a mosaic effect on an image by dividing the image into tiles of a specified size and changing the color of all pixels in each tile to the average color of pixels within the tile Usage Produce blocks pixelation effect Page 182 a o la CR ie lies Read et oe A A do ad edo ada o A es A VR Ve AA PS ME MES ML E Y ai A RI RR RR Y O A a 0 e MERO VR PR E RR VR A dae e a Page 183 Edge Effects Page 184 Effect Edge Detect Description Applies the specified edge filter to the specified image Usage Binarize the image and outline the objects a ST ari hh e ie a al LP E An nei E ee rl bap pi At ae j Ape SEA Hi E q ee LA ai SET A el pa ee era Di ae ana a ADR F sin pat et dI ME A Ta A eg ca AL Page 185 Page 186 Effect Smooth Edges Description Smoothes the rough edges in the image Usage Reduce image varia
69. hould be used if you are stacking images http deepskystacker free fr english index html Dark Frame This is an exposure taken using a CCD camera with the shutter closed The length of the exposure should match the length of normal exposures taken Dark frames are used to help compensate for noise in the CCD camera ultimately resulting in better images when processed FITS FITS stands for Flexible Image Transport System This is the standard image format used by astronomers worldwide FITS supports including a data header along with the image that contains information about the observation Flat Field Frame This is an exposure taken of an evenly illuminated source These frames are also used to compensate for noise and other artifacts Image History Toolbar The toolbar used to record all image processing tasks so that the user can reload the image at any point in the process Page 13 Lossy Compression A lossy compression method is one where compressing data and then decompressing it retrieves data that may well be different from the original but is close enough to be useful in some way JPEG files use this method Typically you want to process images in their non compressed form and save them to formats such as JPEG when you are all done with them Magnifying Glass This magnifying glass provides a means of zooming in on the image loaded into the image Use the Magnifying Glass if you want to e Control the painting options for th
70. i Vertical 150 dpi 4 de Resolution Horizontal 1150 Method Normal e Vertical 150 Identical Values Cancel Page 48 Histogram Displays a histogram showing the various color channels Histogram Channel Red View Area Clipping se Mean 088 Total Pixels 345600 Median Fercentile Image Information Displays detailed information on the currently displayed image Image Information Channel Channel Information Mean 5 2419 Minimum 0000 Std Dey 4 8531 Maximum 253 0000 Median 5 0000 Pixel Count 245 600 0000 Channel Range Information Start AR a Ae ia Mean 529 Minimum m Std Dew Po 48691 Maximum 2530000 Median 50000 Pixel Count 345 500 0000 Percent 100 0000 Page 49 Effects Menu Effects Color Preferences Wine Filter and Effects The browser shows you an example of what the image will look like after Filter and Effects Browser Browser you apply that effect If you would like to use an effect to enhance your C Blur image click on the thumbnail and then click Launch Filter Screen a Moise hn Sharpen X Filter and Effects Browser e Calculations Effect amp Filter Selection 30 m EH Distort 3D A MD EJ 30 effect R EZ e 4 D PLANEBEND Artistic 7 3D zigzag jpg 3D spherize jpg 3D ripple jpg Provides depth by placing the i mage on parallel planes along the Z axis EE Texture bended toward the center point
71. icon will display a tooltip when you hover over it which tells you what the icon is used for The menu bar at the top contains all of the features you will use in the software The most popular features have been also placed on one of the toolbars to make it more accessible Finally the status bar at the bottom of the screen will always display useful information about the currently selected image showing on the screen Here you can see the image size bit depth zoom size and name of the image Deepsky Image Processing C data Deepsky 99 DSImaging sampleimages moonshadows png KE File Edit View Animation Image Effects Color Preferences Window Help EX Browse 2 Open EA Save EA Save As 28 tq SA FP Rr P QR Ro Last Command Clear History Deepsky Stacker Interface Image History Status Bar x 1135 y 952 Size 1046x973px 8BPP Zoom 63 Memory Size 1 017 758 bytes Zoom View OFF C data Deepsky 99 DSimaging sampleimages moonshadows png Page 21 Opening an Image For the most part Deepsky Imaging is easy to use It functions similar to other image programs you may have used in the past Let s examine the four ways we can open an image using Deepsky Imaging 1 Select FILE gt OPEN or click the Open an Image Icon on the toolbar 2 Drag any image s from Windows Explorer into the Deepsky Imaging window 3 Selet FILE BROWSE or click the BROWSE toolbar button to select a folder on your system and have thumbnail images sho
72. ics format compressed using CCITI Group 3 1D FILE SMP_G3 20 1BPP 256 Xionics format compressed using CCIT Group 3 2D FILE SMP_G4 259 Xionics format compressed using CCIT Group 4 e VFX WinFax Format Constant Read Support tl Write Support Description FILE WFX G3 1D 1BPP 1 BPP 69 Winfax compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension FILE WFX_G4 1 BPP 1 BPP 70 Wintax compressed using CCITT group 4 e XBM XBitMap Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_XBM 1 BPP 1 BPP 110 XWindows XBitMap Page 101 Deepsky Imaging Effects Gallery Blur Effects The following pages show off some of the effects that Deepsky Imaging can do to your images While many aren t practical for astronomy they nonetheless look pretty cool Page 102 Effect Gaussian Blur Description Smoothes or blurs an image by applying a Gaussian filters to the specified image Usage Removing noise and blur Page 103 Effect Motion Blur Description Applies a filter which creates the illusion of movement in an image Usage Removing noise and Blur also shows the image s objects as in motion view Page 104 Effect Zoom Blur Description Blurs the image along radial lines starting from a specified center point Usage Simulates the blur of capturing the image while zooming the camera Page 105 Effect Radial Blur Description Blurs the image
73. ideo CCD camerasS i 34 Capturing Video in Deepsky Maging iii isso 35 Sample of Images Taken with Stellacam lll and Mallincam CameraS ii 40 DESO SKY Mae IS Tas ocios 43 DECDSKY Imaging Tas Kun odas 44 HSM dea 44 EMI A O O cod 44 VEW WIEN Ui td di 45 ANIMAtON Mena lee iaia 46 A oi tactaslecon E dale tiamvauce tite rabatdlabade toute toutautadayanuaneanans 46 Bielle 50 CCOO Meda 51 Prelerences MSNM A dadas 53 ANNONS SUMMA casa 54 ANNOtation Propere Sene A E a belntadoeannlocmst anne 55 Annotation Features oiii dede deis 56 Annotation Tools Avalan A A did 66 Compression QUAIL OS 86 Compression Using LEAD and PEGO MES lle 88 Summary of All Supported Image File FOMats ii 89 Efect Galssialn BIU gerrena aa iaia 103 Effect Moon Bla deidad 104 EREC ZOOM DI lia 105 a A cca 106 ENEC ANANAS dad 107 A aN AA 109 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Remove Hot PIES iio 111 MER N 112 ANI a nie 113 Binary Filter ETOSON araras E 114 Binary Filter DION ai E Walacharcdedinsacttntde ts 115 Deinicrid Gscceplduein oa 116 UNAS Mas leali 118 E O O O RA IR I 119 HiebpPassPleri leccate 120 MIDI al ee 122 SUBTRACT BAC UN Alina 123 Well 125 A A E nece ocetetee de 1
74. ifying Glass if you want to e control the painting options for the zoomed display e set the contrast gamma and intensity for the zoomed area Page 14 Concepts Bits per Pixel and Related Ideas The terminology for image formats can be confusing because there are often several ways of describing the same format This topic explains what the terms mean If an image is 24 bits per pixel it is also called a 24 bit image a true color image or a 16M color image Sixteen million is roughly the number of different colors that can be represented by 24 bits where there are 8 bits for each of the red green and blue RGB values A 32 bit image is a specialized true color format used in image files where the extra byte carries information that is either converted or ignored when the file is loaded The extra byte is used for an additional color plane in CMYK files which are specialized files for color printing In that case the software by default converts the values to 24 bit RGB values when loading the image The additional byte may also be used for an Alpha channel which carries extra information such as a transparency indicator If an image is 16 bits per pixel it is also called a 16 bit image a high color image or a 32K color image Thirty two thousand is roughly the number of different colors that can be represented by 16 bits where there are 5 bits for each of the red green and blue values Devices that specify 64K color support
75. image files is useful because the files are big They can range from 100 kilobytes to more than 200 megabytes Compressing the image files does the following e Dramatically decreases the storage requirements e Improves the input and output speed within a system e Improves the transmission speed over networks or phone lines By incorporating the LEAD and JPEG image compression you can develop applications that would be impractical otherwise Image files can be reduced to 200 times smaller than their original size The LEAD CMP compression format was created by LEAD Technologies Inc and it delivers a much smaller file size and better image quality than other compression techniques including JPEG LEAD s CMP file format allows for decompression to a 24 bit medium at 24 bit color and to an 8 bit medium at 8 bit color without sacrificing image quality This eliminates the need to convert all images to 8 bits in order to support the low end users or to save one 8 bit file and one 24 bit file The result is one much smaller file size that can be viewed on a 24 bit video card at 24 bit true color as well as on an 8 bit VGA card at 256 colors LEAD s CMW format uses Wavelet CMP compression Currently 24 color images and 8 12 and 16 bit grayscale images are supported in this format The amount of compression is controllable allowing the compressed image quality to match the needs of your application Compression Quality Factors describes how the
76. in an image resulting in a sharpened image Usage Sharpened the image Page 120 Calculation Filters Page 121 Effect Multiply Description Increases or decreases the brightness in the image by multiplying its colors with constant Usage Changing image brightness Page 122 Effect Subtract Background Description Removes the background from an image Usage Improving the quality of the image remove background and increase the visibility of the details Page 123 Page 124 Effect User Filter Description Apply filtering on the image based on specified user defined mask coefficients Usage Apply user defied filter on the image User Filter Before 5x5 fel atrix of of lol 0 os ET Fr Fg oma __ arr X Center 1 0 Filter Description aaa o f J of of af of o Click the LOAD button to use a predefined filter Click the PREVIEW to view results Page 125 Add or Stitch Bitmaps Together Page 126 Effect Add Bitmaps Description Adds or averages the images in a list Usage This filter can be used to remove noise combine images and improve night vision images Noise can be reduced by averaging a list of images together Adding a list of images together can be used to show details in low intensity areas of an image EA C M27 jpg o esl ES ca hubblegal bmp o JUE es Image 1 Before Image 2 Before Image Combined using Average Page 127 Effect Stitch Bit
77. ion splotch 149 Math Functions 214 Median 112 Mosaic 182 Motion Blur 104 Ocean 142 Oilify 162 Picturize 183 Pixelate 181 Plane Bend 155 Pointillist 173 Polar 132 Posterize 204 Punch 146 Radial Blur 106 Radial Wave 134 Remap Hue 213 Page 220 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Remap Intensity 212 Remove Hot Pixels 111 Rev Effect 141 Ripple 150 Rotation 198 Saturation 209 Sharpen 119 Shear 199 Smooth Edges 187 Solarize 203 Spatial Gradient 190 Spatial Laplacian 191 Spatial Line Segment 195 Spatial Prewitt 193 Spatial Shift Difference 194 Spatial Sobel 192 Spherize 153 Stitch Bitmaps Together Into 1 image 128 Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Effect Swirl 135 Tint 208 Underlay 180 Vignette 177 Wave 137 Wave Shear 139 Wind 131 ZigZag 156 Zoom Wave 133 Add Noise 113 Average 109 Binary Filter Dilation 115 Binary Filter Erosion 114 Multiply 122 Subtract Background 123 Unsharp Mask 118 User Filter 125 Zoom Blur 105 Page 221 Ellipse Tool 69 Encapsulated PostScript Format 91 Encrypt Tool 70
78. ion of this error is what the algorithm accomplishes Floyd Steinberg is a high quality fast error diffusion method It is the default method that the software uses if you reduce the color resolution when loading or saving an image or if you specify error diffusion as the dithering method when painting to a display device that is 256 colors or less Page 16 If you use a function to change the color resolution of a bitmap in memory you can choose from a list of possible dithering methods All of the alternative error diffusion methods are slower than Floyd Steinberg and the quality may or may not be better depending on the original image and depending on whether the resulting image is to be displayed or printed Choosing an alternative dithering method is a subjective trial and error decision Stevenson and Arce dithering the slowest of the alternatives is most likely to produce a higher quality result There is a family of Reference Output Medium Metric ROMM BGR Color encodings that is a wide primary output referred extended color gamut BGR color encoding These encodings are used by digital still picture imaging systems to manipulate store transmit display and print digital images Unlike sRGB color encoding the range of colors is not limited to those colors that can be displayed on a CRT monitor and unlike e sRGB these encodings do not use negative RGB colorimetry co ordinates ROMM color order can be used only with 24 or 48 bit b
79. ions can be encrypted When encrypting overlapping regions note the following points e All annotation objects have an order in which they are drawn the Z order e The encryptors are encrypted from the front of the Z order to the back e Those that are drawn first are encrypted first Those that are drawn last on top of other encryptors are encrypted last e The Z order can be changed through automation by right clicking and choosing Send To Front or Send To Back e The decryptors are decrypted in reverse order of the encryptors Once applied the portion of the bitmap under the encrypt object becomes scrambled and the encrypt object changes state to become a decryptor Using different keys before calling this function gives different scrambling patterns the decryptor state differs from the encryptor state in that a decryptor cannot be moved and cannot be changed to an encryptor The scrambling can be removed by calling AnnEncryptApply on the decryptor with the appropriate arguments If successful the decryptor state Page 70 changes to encryptor An encrypt object in that encrytpor state can be moved can have its key changed and can be changed to a decryptor The encrypt object is useful for encrypting portions of a bitmap After encrypting the scrambled bitmap cannot easily be unscrambled without the associated annotation file The scrambling can be removed by using the associated annotation file or by using automation mode
80. ions of this user manual were taken from the Lead Tools toolkit documentation as they explain some of the concepts very well FEATURES e Interfaces directly with Deepsky Stacker for awesome pre processing of your images e Capture video from Stellacam Mallincam and other Composite or SVideo cameras o Live video preview window Capture at a variety of resolutions Uses Microsoft DirectShow Supports NTSC and PAL Capture to single TIF image or to uncompressed AVI file Manual Quick capture for testing the image quality O O O O Automatic sequencing Converts AVI to a TIF image on the fly at point of capture Video processing lets you adjust brightness contrast hue amp saturation Auto manages saving of sequence to your computer mages saved use unique file naming convention Support for setting the interval in seconds between captures Support for ending the sequence after x number of captures Session capture history lets you easily capture additional images later e Supports many different image formats such as JPG GIF FIT LEAD TIFF including multi page images BMP PNG PSP PSD ICO CUR and many more Over 30 formats supported e Deepsky Imaging supports opening 8 16 and 32 bit FITS images including the FITS header Saving of FITS files is not currently supported e Edit the first frame of an AVI or MPG file Stellacam Il and III owners who use video capture will appreciate opening up a
81. itmaps and is supported by the CMP JPEG Exif JPEG JTIF TIFF CMP file formats There are colors that can be represented in RGB but not in ROMM Conversely there are colors that can be represented in ROMM that cannot be represented in RGB If you convert from one to the other you lose the colors that can be represented only in one of the colorspaces Concepts Palette Handling Any image that is 8 bits per pixel or less must have a palette The palette is an array that contains the colors for displaying the image The pixel values are indexes into the array An image can have its own unique palette or it can share a common fixed palette In either case every bitmap in memory that is 8 bits per pixel or less has its own copy of a palette even if it is a common fixed palette One way for a bitmap to have a unique palette is to load an image from a file that is 8 bits per pixel or less In that case the file contains a palette for the image and you can assume that the palette is unique By default the software loads the palette that is stored in the file and associates it with the bitmap in memory Another way for a bitmap to get a unique palette is to create the palette For example if you reduce a 24 bit image to 8 bits per pixel you can let the software create an optimized palette for the image By using a unique optimized palette you get the best possible image quality but there is a drawback When a display device uses a palette for exa
82. ject is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While in design mode double click on a note object to edit the text In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following Page 75 e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Edit the text e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Y Point Tool The hot spot annotation object ANN_OBJECT_POINT is single point With the automated functions in design mode each point is formed with a mouse click In design mode you can click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Paste the object e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the name properties e Change the line properties e Change the ROP2 properties e Make the point transparent or not transparent e Change the transparent color e Selecta bitmap file e Change the point properties e Change th
83. k e Lock and unlock annotation objects See Password Dialog Box for Annotations e Change the Name properties See Name Dialog Box for Annotations e Change the background color See Color Dialog Box for Annotations e Change the fixed properties See Fixed Dialog Box for Annotations e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects do Hotspot Tool The HotSpot annotation object is a rectangle that can be activated for an application defined purpose In design mode the rectangle contains a scaled image Click and drag to specify the rectangle Holding down the Shift key while drawing the hot spot will make the HotSpot annotation square In run mode the object is transparent but the mouse pointer changes to a hand when it is over the object In run mode clicking on the button triggers an event LtAnnEvent You can add code to process the event The example program merely pops up a message box In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back Page 74 e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Select a metafile to load into the stamp e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Line Tool The Line annotation
84. mage to Main Window at any point to send the image in the preview window back to the main Deepsky Imaging window by clicking the following toolbar button E Return Current Captured Image To Main Window AVI Capture Tab ia Capture Video From Stellacam or other Camera Using Microsoft Direct Show tex Ed Full Screen Mode O Stopwatch ara Video Settings La Video Capture Pin Video Preview Window Setup Still Capture AVI Capture Current Captured Image Set Object Being Imaged Take Exposure Length Minutes Use a descriptive name for your exposure The AVI gt x file created by this process will include this name e Seconds Then enter the exposure time and click Expose Expose Q Goto Capture Folder TIP Use AVI Capture when imaging solar system objects Typically for these objects you want to Close record as many frames as possible so that your chances of getting great images are improved Use the AVI capture tab to capture video as an uncompressed AVI file This is the preferred capture method for imaging solar system objects since you will most likely need many frames to get a good final image Like in the still capture tab specify a name of the object you are imaging This will be used in the saved filename Then enter in an exposure length in either seconds or minutes and click the EXPOSE button Images captured in this manner will eat up a lot of disk space since
85. maps Together Into 1 image Description Stitch multiple images making them into a single image Usage Use this dialog to produce a new bitmap that is composed of 1 or more source bitmaps B Stitch 320 X 200 pixels Zoom 100 la File View Image Object yo aloa sly xR g Opacity 255 Position Let p3 E Top 2 lt Size width 140 cali Height 140 W Match Aspect Ratio _ s ERA eo ASM 0 e 21000 8008000 Resulting image stitched together Page 128 Distortion Effects Page 129 Effect Free Hand Wave Description Distorts the image by a free hand drawn wave in any specified direction Usage Makes the image look like as if it is reflected on user defined waves Page 130 Effect Wind Description Creates thin lines directed along certain angle on the specified image Usage Apply this effect on the image objects to show that it has been exposed by a direct wind Page 131 Effect Polar Description Converts the image from rectangular to polar coordinates and vice versa Usage Makes the image look like as if it has been drawn on the Polar Coordinate system Page 132 Effect Zoom Wave Description Distorts the image with a wave zoomed from any specified point on the image Usage Makes the image look like as if it is reflected on zoomed waves Page 133 Effect Radial Wave Description Distorts an image by a radial wave radiating from an
86. mple when it is in 256 color mode it can only use one palette at a time to display colors Therefore if you are displaying more than one image at the same time the current image may look perfect while all of the others look bad because they are mapped to the wrong palette This is called palette shift Using a fixed palette solves these palette shift problems The best approach is to specify the fixed palette as a display option Then the software remaps each image to the fixed palette when it is Page 17 displayed without disturbing the individual image s palette When displaying 16 24 or 32 bit images on a device with 256 colors or less the software always uses the fixed palette Alternatively you can use a color resolution function to specify a fixed palette for each individual image But then when you save the image to a file the fixed palette is saved in the file and any unique palette information is lost Important Technical information regarding Deepsky Imaging e Deepsky Imaging can be used standalone or with the upcoming version of Deepsky Astronomy Software e This software utilizes Microsoft COM technologies Future versions will use NET e This software uses the world class imaging toolkit from Lead Tools version 14 5 Imaging is a tough area to write programs for so picking a high quality imaging toolkit from Lead Tools has simplified and reduced software development time for Deepsky Imaging Programmers may be
87. n design mode double click on a text object to edit the text When moving a text pointer the pointer endpoint of the line can remain fixed or move with the rest of the text pointer To change this setting in automation mode select or deselect the Fixed Pointer check box on the Text Dialog Box for Annotations In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Move the object to the front of the Z order e Move the object to the back of the Z order Page 84 Lock and unlock annotation objects Change the Name properties Change the line properties Change the binary raster operations ROP2 code Change the fill mode Change the foreground and background colors Change the font selection and font characteristics Edit the text Change the fixed state Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Page 85 Compression Quality Factors You can specify a quality factor when saving an image file to LEAD JFIF LEAD2JFIF LEAD2JFIF JTIF LEAD1JTIF and LEAD2JTIF The quality factor Q factor is a number that determines the degree of loss in the compression process You can set a value from 2 to 255 where 2 is the highest quality and 255 is the most compression For JFIF and JTIF compression only you can also use a factor of O to produce lossles
88. n press the ESC key to cancel many actions in annotation automation mode For example when drawing an annotation pressing ESC will cancel the annotation completely When rotating resizing or moving an annotation pressing ESC will cancel the action leaving the annotation unchanged New Calibrate Ruler Feature With this feature a user can automatically calibrate a ruler to the desired size This is useful when a user wants to interactively measure something in an image Note that there are four annotations objects used for measuring e ANN OBJECT_RULER e ANN OBJECT _POLYRULER e ANN OBJECT _CROSSPRODUCT e ANN OBJECT _PROTRACTOR Any of these objects can be calibrated To calibrate a ruler 1 Load desired image 2 Draw an ANN_OBJECT_RULER object and size to desired size In this example we will calibrate the diagonal to be 2 feet The following figure displays an uncalibrated ruler 3 Right click the ANN OBJECT RULER object and select Ruler Properties and then Ruler as shown in the following figure Page 62 4 Click the Calibrate button to open the Calibrate Ruler dialog The following figure displays In the Calibrate dialog set the Ruler Length to 2 and the Ruler Measurement to feet Select the Apply to Newly Created Rulers check Page 63 box Click the OK button to close the Calibrate dialog Click the OK button to save your selections and close the Ruler Properties dialog 5 Draw a new ruler to measure a
89. n such as square log square root sine and cosine Usage Re map image colors according to mathematical functions Page 214 Effect Histogram Equalize Description Linearizes the number of pixels locally in an image based on the specified color space This can be used to bring out the detail in dark areas of an image and smooth the edges between blocks Usage Enhance contrast near image edges and expose detail in both light and dark regions Page 215 Effect Histogram Contrast Description Increases or decreases the contrast of the image using its histogram to determine the median brightness as opposed to using an arbitrary value of 128 This function finds the median brightness of the image then brightens the pixels with values above the median and darkens the pixels with values below the median Usage This filter is used to Increase or decrease the contrast of an image Page 216 X WindowDump 99 ANN file extension 54 16 bit grayscale images 11 16 bits per pixel 15 32 bit image 15 3 D 50 8 bits per pixel 15 ABC Format 99 ABIC Format 89 Add bitmaps 47 Add Border 48 Add Text to Image 46 Adjust gt Auto Level Image 51 Adjust gt Balance Colors 51 Adjust gt Brightness 51 Adjust gt Contrast 51 Adjust gt Gamma 51 INDEX Adjust gt Hue 51 Adjust gt Lighting 51 Adjust gt Saturation 51 Adjust gt Tint 51 Adjust gt Brightness Contrast Enhancement 5
90. nary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the fill mode e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Change the measurement units precision and gauge length e Change the node properties e Change the fixed state Page 71 e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects La Rich Text Tool The Rich Text annotation object is a rectangle containing text that supports Rich Text Format RTF In design mode click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rectangle will make the text annotation square A dialog box then lets the user enter the text A menu also appears to allow further formatting of text Formatting support includes Font Font size Bold Italic Underline Foreground Color Background Color Bullets Numbering Indenting Alignment As soon as the Text object is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While in design mode double click on a text object to edit the text In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the foreground color e Change t
91. ndows Animated Cursor e AVI Windows AVI Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE AVI 24 BPP None 59 Windows AVI video file Deepsky Imaging can open an AVI file to get the first frame of the image Owners of Stellacam Il and III CCD video cameras who capture AVI will appreciate this feature Page 89 BMP Windows Bitmap Formats Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_BMP 1 4 8 16 24 32 BPP 1 4 8 16 24 32BPP 6 Windows BMP with no compression FILE_BMP_RLE 4 8 BPP 4 8 BPP 84 Windows BMP with RLE compression FILE O52 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24 BPP 14 05 2 BMP version 1 x FILE 082 2 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24 BPP 74 OS 2 BMP version 2 x CIN Cineon Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE CIN 24 BPP 24 BPP 298 Kodak Cineon Format CLP Microsoft Windows Clipboard Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_CLP 1 4 8 24 BPP 1 4 8 24 BPP 114 Microsoft Windows Clipboard Uncompressed FILE_CLP_RLE 4 8 BPP 8 BPP 291 Microsoft Windows Clipboard RLE Compressed CMP LEAD Compressed Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_CMP 8 BPP Grayscale 5 LEAD CMF a 24 BPP compressed format 24 BPP CMW LEAD Wavelet Compressed FILE CMW 6 12 16 BPP 8 12 16 BPP 165 LEAD Wavelet CMP Grayscale Gr
92. ne the median brightness This method finds the median brightness of the image then brightens the pixels with values above the median and darkens the pixels with values below the median Fills the entire image with the specified color Separates the bitmap by color plane to produce one grayscale bitmap per plane Uses the RGB color space model Separates the bitmap by color plane to produce one grayscale bitmap per plane Uses the CMYK color space model Separate gt HSV Separates the bitmap by color plane to produce one grayscale A bitmap per plane Uses the HSV color space model Separate gt HLS Separates the bitmap by color plane to produce one grayscale PRA bitmap per plane Uses the HLS color space model Separates the bitmap by color plane to produce one grayscale bitmap per plane Uses the CMY color space model Creates a color bitmap by merging grayscale bitmaps that were created as color separations using the RGB color space model Color Merge gt CMYK Creates a color bitmap by merging grayscale bitmaps that were A created as color separations using the CMYK color space model Color Merge gt HSV Creates a color bitmap by merging grayscale bitmaps that were AA I created as color separations using the HSV color space model Creates a color bitmap by merging grayscale bitmaps that were created as color separations using the HLS color space model Color Merge gt CMY Creates a color bitmap by merging grayscale bitmaps that were peer
93. ng and hot pixel removal in a batch process by specifying an input and output folder A lot faster than doing it one at a time NEW Added a stopwatch to the video capture screen for manual timings BUG Opening images in Windows Vista was painfully slow This has been corrected BUG Fixed capture settings bug that would give an error when clicking OK in the settings screen BUG When using a custom capture size the size shown in the preview window sometimes would not display at the specified size Page 8 Page 9 Welcome to Deepsky Imaging Welcome to Deepsky Imaging This software is designed to be used either with Deepsky Astronomy Software or as a standalone image enhancement program The software can be used for image enhancement of CCD or other night sky photo s and includes many artistic image effects that you will also find useful for your family photos While Deepsky Imaging is not meant to compete with the big boys of Imaging like Photoshop amp Maxim DL you will surely find that its many enhancement options and file type choices will satisfy many of your image processing needs The software utilizes technologies from the world leading supplier of imaging toolkits Lead Tools http www leadtools com Lead Tools toolkits are optimized for use by business document imaging medical and scientific applications We are proud to offer so many advanced imaging capabilities as an alternative to higher priced software Port
94. ng and tacking ml ml7 2 Jpg Registering C xdataxDee F9 DSImaging sampleimages Sample for Alignin When the stacking process finishes the command window will disappear and the final stacked image will appear in the Deepsky Stacker Interface screen final processed image To use this stacked image in Deepsky Imaging you can double click it or click the Accept Selected Image button IMPORTANT SETUP NOTES 1 If you install Deepsky Stacker into its default location under C Program Files then Deepsky Stacker is ready to go If you installed it somewhere else you should go into Deepsky Imaging Program Options under the preferences menu and locate the DeepskyStackerCL exe file as shown Misc Options W Enable Save on Close Warning Open image windows in Maximized mode Deepsky Stacker Path L re Load Defaults OK Cancel 2 If you are using a 64 bit Windows operating system you should go into the above screen and select the DeepskyStackerCL exe file manually This is necessary because 64 bit operating systems will install 32 bit applications into C Program Files x86 So if you keep seeing a message telling you Deepsky Stacker is not installed and you know it is just set the path in Deepsky Imaging and you are good to go Page 32 Here s an example of using the Deepsky Stacker Interface The image on the right was stacked by using 4 AVI files taken with the Stellacam III The Deepsky Stacker Interface takes
95. nstant Read Support Write Support Description FILE WMF Yes Yes 15 Windows Metafile FILE EMF Yes Yes 116 Windows Enhanced Metafile EPS Encapsulated PostScript Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE EPSPOSTSCHIPT 1 4 3 24 BPP None 300 Encapsulated PostScript FILE EPSTIFF 1 4 8 16 24 32BPP None 63 Encapsulated PostScript with TIFF preview FILE_ EPSWMF 24 BPP Non 64 Encapsulated PostScript with WMF preview FILE_EPS 1 8 24 BPP 8 BPP BPP Grayscale 16 Encapsulated PostScript Page 91 EXIF Exif Formats Constant Read Support Write Support Description ALE _ EMF 24 BPP 24 BPP 96 Exif file containing a TIFF image with no compression and with RGB color space ALE EXIF YCC 24 BPP 24 BPP 97 Exif file containing a TIFF image with no compression and with YCbCr color space FILE EXIF JPEG 422 24 BPP 24 BPP 98 Exif file containing a JPEG compressed image and YUV 4 2 2 color space FILE EXIF_JPEG 411 24 BPP 24 BPP 101 Exif file containing a JPEG compressed image and YUV 4 1 1 color space FIT FITS Format Constant Read Support FILE FIT 6 BPP unsigned binary integer gray 16 BPP twos complement signed integers gray 32 BPP twos complement signed integers color FLC Flic Animation Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE FLC a
96. nt or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e If the object has multiple nodes Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operations ROP2 code e Change the fill mode and the fill pattern e Change the polygonal fill mode which controls which areas are filled when lines cross e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the node properties e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Curve Tool The curve annotation object is a sequence of points that are joined by cubic polynomials such that adjacent polynomials are continuous at the first and second derivates The result is a smooth continuous curve going through all the points In design mode each curve is formed with a mouse click and the object is completed on a double click In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects Page 68 e If the object has multiple nodes Add or delete n
97. ny part of the image as shown in the following figure New Dot Dash Lines Most of the LEAD annotation objects have a Line Width and Line Style option This can be used to draw the annotations with thick lines and change the line style from solid to dashed or dotted In previous versions of LEADTOOLS drawing annotations with thick lines line width more than 1 pixel required that the line style be Solid This is due to a limitation of Windows GDI In version 14 5 this limitation has been removed Now annotation objects can be drawn with thick lines of any style The following example illustrates this a o j l e i j A o L a gt an a popo m Rectangle Object Ellipse Object Line Width Line Width 6 Line Style Dash Line Style Dot New Text Annotation Options For the following text based annotations you can now change the text color so that it is different from the border color Also you can optionally show or hide the text e ANN OBJECT_ TEXT e ANN OBJECT_TEXTPOINTER e ANN OBJECT_STAMP e ANN OBJECT_NOTE e ANN OBJECT _PUSHPIN Page 64 For the following text based annotations you can now optionally show or hide the border e ANN OBJECT TEXT e ANN OBJECT STAMP These properties can also be set for the following annotation objects for purposes of recursion e ANN OBJECT CONTAINER e ANN OBJECT_AUTOMATION e ANN OBJECT BUTTON To see these new features 1 Draw an ANN
98. o capture the e Polygon screen ca 3 For capture select a region Do Ellipse on your screen using the mouse 6 Free Hand Capture Close 1 Click capture to start the process Deepsky includes some pretty awesome screen capture capabilities You can quickly capture the screen by going to FILE gt CAPTURE SCREEN Deepsky Imaging will minimize its own window and then take a full screenshot of whatever is on your screen loading the captured image into Deepsky Imaging For finer control use the Advanced Capture located on the FILE menu This easy to use yet flexible capture utility will let you capture a screen in a multitude of ways IMPORTANT After clicking Capture make sure you HIT F11 to take the screenshot e Full Screen captures your entire computer screen e Wall Paper captures your desktop wallpaper without including your icons e Active Window captures the active window the one with focus e Active Client captures the active client without the window s title bar e Region Capture uses the selected option to capture the screen in the shape you have selected For example if you select Region Free Hand you can use the mouse to draw around an object on the screen These options give you a lot of flexibility NOTE For Region capture after you click the capture key in Deepsky Imaging find the area you want to select and press F11 Once F11 is pressed you will be able to highlight the region you want to c
99. odes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the foreground color e Change the node properties e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects e Ellipse Tool The Ellipse annotation object is a simple ellipse In design mode click and drag to specify the ellipse in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the ellipse will make the ellipse annotation circular In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the fill mode and the fill pattern e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Page 69 S Encrypt Tool The encrypt annotation object is a rectangular object that is used to encrypt rectangular portion
100. older of images displaying the results in a thumbnail view amp Scan an Image a r Batch Image Cleanup Processes a series of images for leveling removing hot pixels etc Stitch multiple images Stitch multiple images together to make one larger image Capture Screen Captures the current screen Sd Advanced Capture Captures the screen in a variety of ways including full region amp Print Stitched Images e ea D desktop Use F11 to initiate the capture riusci inning E EEE Select Your Scanner Selects a twain compatible scanner attached to your computer Reset Toolbars to Factory Default Scans an image or document into a new window in Deepsky Imaging M e Web Tuner Examine the effects of compression on an image so that you can optimize it for the Web HTML Map Creator Allows you to create an HTML map of the image File Format Associates file formats with Deepsky Imaging Associations i i R i i R ings Reset Toolbars esets the toolbars back to default settings Reset Imaging Prefer esets all preferences in Deepsky Imaging to their default values Close Deepsky Imaging Edit Menu Copy Image to Clip Copies the current image to the Windows clipboard Edit View Animation Image Effects boa rd Ba Copy Current Image to Clipboard Pastes an image into a new window in Deepsky Imaging B Cancels the last operation E x as Select Region Selects a region of the image Subsequent image processing tasks will Select
101. on This option cleans up the image removes its border if it exists and compresses it to a smaller file size than ABCQ_REMOVEBORDER 4 Lossy compression This option cleans up the image removes its border if it exists and compresses it to a smaller file size than ABCO_ENHANCE However it may distort text or Straight lines 5 Same as ABCQ MODIFIED1 without the border remove or image clean processes 6 Lossy compression This option cleans up the image removes its border if it exists and compresses it to a smaller file size than ABCQ_MODIFIED1 However it may distort text or straight lines Maximum compression 7 Same as ABCO MODIFIED2 without the border remove or image clean processes 8 Lossy compression Provides faster encode and decode speed than ABCQ_MODIFIED1 or Page 87 ABCQ_MODIFIED2 Provides the maximum compression QFACTOR_ABCQ_MODIFIED3_ FAST 9 Same as ABCO MODIFIED3 without the border remove or image clean processes QFACTOR_ABCO LOSSLESS FAST 10 Faster lossless compression than ABCQ_LOSSLESS This option compresses a 1 bit file and maintains image data unchanged Highest quality Does not produce compression ratios as high as ABCQ_LOSSLESS QFACTOR_ABCOQ LOSSY FAST 11 Lossy compression This is the fastest ABC lossy compression option Does not produce compression ratios as high as the other lossy options Compression Using LEAD and JPEG Formats Compression of color and grayscale graphic
102. on open up Deepsky Imaging and go to Image menu and select the Align Stack by File Selection option PA Align amp Stack by File Selection PA Aign amp Stack all Windows When the Deepsky Stacker Interface screen appears select the sampleimages folder under Deepsky Imaging and drill down to the M17 folder These sample images are in JPEG format to illustrate that you can use any image format here however we recommend using formats that don t use lossy compression v Deepsky Stacker Interface Light Frames mif 1 pg C datalDeep ky S D0SImagingisamplieimagestSamples for Aligning and Star miY 2 pg C Wdata Deepsky S5 0Simagingsampleimages Samples for Aligning and Star mi7 3 pg C data Deepsky S5 0Simaging sampkimages Samples for Aligning and Star mif4 jpg Cdata Deepsky 99DS maging sampleimages Samples for Aligning and Star 3 0SIimaging J Samples for Aligning and Stackini You can also add images to the various categories above using drag and drop Visit Website ii Selected Unprocessed Image Fitimage in window Remove Hot Pixels Auto Level Images 9 Highlight the 4 images in that folder and drag them over to the Images Light list box You can also drag and drop files from Windows explorer into each tab You can click on each image if you want and the image will be displayed in the preview window Now click the PROCESS IMAGES button at the bottom center of the screen Deepsky Imaging will
103. on Multi select In previous versions of LEADTOOLS you could select multiple objects and manipulate the objects by dragging any handle of any object When moving a handle the results were often not intuitive With the new multi select option all selected objects are outlined with a multi select border The multi select border has eight resize handles and two rotate handles Now moving resizing and rotating multiply select objects is clear and easy to do Page 60 The following figure displays a sample of the original style and the new style New Annotation Cursors This new feature displays different cursors for many tasks in automated annotation mode This feature displays unique annotation cursors in the following situations e When hovering over a rotation gripper handle e When hovering over a rotation center handle e When hovering over any of the eight size handles an appropriate arrow cursor is displayed depending on the handle and the rotation of the annotation object e When dragging a selection e When using any of the 30 annotation tools The following figure displays some of the new cursors CE A _WV ZZZ SSR Se ala Annotation Tool for each object All sight size s handles S o D unica ee ee e gt Dragging a election PONI IO Page 61 New ESC to Cancel In previous versions of LEADTOOLS the ESC key was not set to cancel actions in annotation automation mode With this new feature a user ca
104. on and Style e Rotate Text Positioning vertical Up El Text Style No three dimensional effect Shear No th E y 3 Enter Your Text 8 Remove Redeye E pme o dh Add Bitmaps dq ee gorizia basi sagas your mouse to position the text on the image When you are ready E Align a Stack by File Selection Align amp Stack all Windo d E Argna stac ss This is a fully fledged annotation module that lets you have Blinker complete control over annotating images You can draw lines Add Border circles highlight portions of the image attach notes hyperlinks Canvas Resize stamps rulers angle measurement and more wi Histogram Image Information Name Line ROP2 Fil Fixed Sample AabbZz V Show Name AAA Font Location Colors Name Offset x 10 Y 10 V Name Restrict Foreground Color Pei Background Color Transparent Flips the image vertically Flips the image horizontally Lets you select a portion of the image and crop the image Applies a mirror effect Rotates the image using any angle Move the corners of the bitmap in the fashion of a parallelogram Horizontal shear Vertical shear Page 46 Remove Red Eye Removes the red eye effect on images of people Add bitmaps Adds or averages 2 or more images This operation can be used to add several images of the same view to improve the lightness or brightness of the image It can also eliminate random noise contained in the
105. one Useful for color reduction and segmentation Page 202 Effect Solarize Description Applies an effect that mimics the accidental exposure of photographic film to light It does so by inverting all color data with an intensity value greater than or equal to the threshold that you specify Usage Creates an effect that look like accidental exposure of photographic film to light by inverting the colors according to user specifies threshold Page 203 Effect Posterize Description Imposes a poster effect on an image by quantizing the image s colors to a specified number of color levels per plane For example two levels mean two of red two of green and two of blue Usage Produce the image colors to look like posters Page 204 Effect Brightness Contrast Enhancement Description Applies contrast brightness and intensity adjustments to enhance the image tonal range The transformations are applied in this order Contrast Brightness then Intensity Usage Adjust the brightness and contrast of the image Page 205 Effect Lighting Control Description Lightens or darkens all or part of a bitmap by remapping the pixel values This method remaps the pixel values of the bitmap across the full range of available pixel values Usage Control lighting effect on the image Page 206 Effect Hue Description Changes the hue of colors in an image by rotating the color wheel a specified number of degrees Usage
106. or Merge b intensities into corresponding RGB values Eee Convert to 12 bit Grayscale Converts the current image to a 12 bit grayscale image Convert to 16 bit Grayscale Converts the current image to a 16 bit grayscale image Intensity Detect Applies binary segmentation to a bitmap by filtering the specified bitmap to detect colors in a specified intensity range in the specified color channel The image is divided into 2 parts inner and outer according to the high low values Solarize Applies an effect that mimics the accidental exposure of photographic e film to light It does so by inverting all color data with an intensity value greater than or equal to the threshold that you specify Posterize Imposes a poster effect on the bitmap by quantizing the bitmap s colors to a specified number of color levels per plane For example two levels means two of red two of green and two of blue Adjust gt Auto Level Image Performs the same function that the Auto Level toolbar button does Contrast Enhancement image tonal range Adjust the contrast of the image only Adjust gt Lighting Lightens or darkens all or part of a bitmap by remapping the pixel values This method remaps the pixel values of the bitmap across the full range of available pixel values in order to achieve the values you set Adjust gt Hue Adjusts the hue of the image Adjust gt Tint Adjusts the tint of the image Adjust gt Saturation Adjusts the saturation
107. ow to Full Image Size 45 Solarize 51 Spatial Filters 50 Stamp object 57 Stamp Tool 82 Stevenson and Arce dithering 17 Stitch multiple images 44 Stretch Image to Window 45 Structured Fax File Format 96 SUN Raster Format 96 System Requirements 12 Tagged Image File Format 97 Tagged Image File Format CCITT amp TIFX Xerox Internet Fax File Format 97 Text Annotation Options 64 Page 225 Text Pointer Tool 84 Text Tool 83 Transform gt Colored Gray 51 Transform gt Grayscale 51 Transform gt Halftone 51 Transform gt Increase Decrease color resolution 51 Truevision TARGA Format 96 TWAIN scanners 11 UNDO function 26 Wavelet CMP compression 88 Web Tuner 44 Welcome 10 Windows Animated Cursor 89 Windows AVI Format 89 Windows Bitmap Formats 90 Windows Icons 93 Windows Metafile Formats 91 98 Windows Vista 12 WinFax Format 101 Wireless Bitmap Format 98 WordPerfect Format 98 XBitMap Format 101 Xionics Format 101 XpicMap 99 Zoom 45 Zoom View 14 45 Page 226
108. rowser lets you see a group of images in a folder then selectively load the images into Deepsky Imaging Full drag and drop support Easily load any number of images by simply dragging them from Windows explorer HTML Image Map creator Advanced screen capture capabilities Sophisticated Printing and Preview capabilities Pan and Magnify tools included let you move around large images effortlessly and magnify portions using the mouse Deepsky Imaging remembers the last folder you used to open a file and takes you right back there the next time Page 11 e Customizable toolbars let you hide or view them easily Installing the Software System Requirements e Windows 98 NT 2000 ME XP 2003 Server Vista 32 and 64 bit versions Windows 7 Beta Windows 95 is no longer supported but Deepsky Imaging may still work e A minimum of 512 megabytes is recommended The more memory you have the better e Screen resolution of at least 1024x768 You can still run the software at lower resolutions but some of the screen elements will be pushed off the screen e For image capture you must have a Capture card compatible with Microsoft DirectShow Installation e Run the Setup exe to start the process e Answer all of the default prompts e When finished run the software IMPORTANT NOTES 1 If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 and encounter any installation problems please make sure you run the setup exe with Administra
109. s JPEG files For LEAD CMP compression 8 bit 12 bit and 24 bit only you can also use one of the following enhanced options Q Factor PQ1 PQ2 QFS QMS QS SQS Predefined options for LEAD only 1 Perfect quality 1 This option compresses all colors of a 24 bit file and maintains the quality of the original image at a smaller file size As the name suggests there is no visual loss of color at this setting 2 Perfect quality 2 This will produce a smaller file size than PQ1 while maintaining similar quality 3 Quality far more important than size This option removes colors not noticed by the human eye Most viewers cannot tell the difference between an image compressed at this level and the original image 4 Quality more important than size While more colors are removed most of them are colors or shades that are close to one another The compressed image will appear very much like the original image It will take some study to see the difference 5 Quality and size equally important This option provides the highest compression while maintaining good image quality Try this option first then move up or down the list accordingly to obtain acceptable compression size and image quality 6 Size more important that quality sharp This option is recommended for images that have sharp edges For example an image that has a text overlay or an image with many straight lines While it creates a lar
110. s of a bitmap It can also be used to encrypt the entire bitmap In design mode the Encrypt object is created by selecting the Encrypt tool and then clicking and dragging the mouse to create the rectangular Encrypt object Then while the object is selected right click the object and select the Encrypt item on the Encrypt Properties menu enter the key in the Encrypt Properties dialog that appears and then click Apply In design mode the Encrypt object is visible but partially transparent to show the part of the bitmap that it covers In run mode the encrypt object is invisible In run mode if an encrypt object state encryptor has been applied to the bitmap the pixels underneath the encryptor s location are physically scrambled in a manner that depends upon the key used when the encrypt object was created An encrypt annotation has two metafiles one for when it is an encryptor and one for when it is a decryptor The encryptor metafile is changed with the Metafile option The decryptor metafile is changed with the Secondary Metafile option If you have one or more encrypt objects selected and you change the Metafile then the encryptor metafile changes for all of the selected encrypt objects You can also change the metafile and secondary metafiles for all newly created encrypt objects by right clicking on the image but not on an annotation selecting Default Properties and changing the primary secondary metafiles Overlapping reg
111. sage Add cloud texture to the image Page 171 Effect Lens Flare Description Simulates the secondary reflections caused when bright lights are facing the camera lens The lens flare is refracted into a series of lightened circles that surround the flare center point Usage Simulates the effect of light strokes camera lens produces an artistic effect for a fine arts or commercial project Page 172 Effect Pointillist Description Converts image colors into randomly placed dots to create a pointillist painting and uses the background color to fill the area between dots Usage Create a pointillist painting Page 173 Effect Color Replace Description Replace specified colors by adjusting new value of hue saturation and brightness Usage To change certain color in the image to other selected color Page 174 Page 175 Effect Glass Description Divides the image into cells and makes it look as if it is being viewed through glass blocks Usage Simulates the effect of the image being viewed through glass blocks Page 176 Effect Vignette Description Draws a specified shape and feathers it to the image Usage Draws a circle ellipse rectangle or square to create a vignette shape and then a color is feathered to the image filling either the inside or the outside of the vignette shape Page 177 Effect Fragment Description Averages an image with its shifted copies Usage Blurring t
112. sed using IBM MMR with the MO DCA wrapper FILE_ICA_UNCOMPRESSED 1 BPP 1 BPP 253 IOCA uncompressed with the MO DCA wrapper FILE_RAWICA_G3_1D 1 BPP 1 BPP 77 IOCA compressed using CCITT group 3 1 dimension without the MO DCA wrapper FILE_RAWICA_G3_2D 1 BPP 1 BPP 78 IOCA compressed using CCITT group 3 2 dimensions without the MO DCA wrapper FILE_RAWICA_G4 1BPP 1BPP 79 IOCA compressed using CCITT group 4 without the MO DCA wrapper FILE_RAWICA_IBM_MMR 1BPP 1BPP 118 IOCA compressed using IBM MMR without the MO DCA wrapper FILE_RAWICA_UNCOMPRESSED 1BPP 1BPP 254 IOCA uncompressed without the MO DCA wrapper IMG GEM Image Format Consta nt Read Support ar Write Support t Description FILE IMG 1BPP 52 GEM Image ITG Intergraph Format E Constant E Read Support Write Support Description 1 BPP 122 ITG Intergraph RLE compressed file FILE _INTERGRAPH_CCITI_G4 1BPP 1 BPP 301 TG Intergraph CCITT file Page 100 e MAC MacPaint Format Constant Read Support Write Description Support FILE_MAC 1 BPF 1 BPP 51 MacFaint Macintosh Faint e MSP Microsoft Paint Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_MSP 1 BPP 1 BPP 53 Microsoft Paint e SMP Xionics Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_SMP EE 1 BPP EE 1 BPP 256 Xionics format FILE SMP_G3 1D 257 Xion
113. single frame Since these cameras do their own integration you can Page 10 take several short exposures and use the first frame in each file and then finally stack those images to get a nice final image Supports 12 and 16 bit grayscale images You can open nearly any image format make changes to it using Deepsky s enhancement tools and save the image either back to its original file or to a new file Even icons can be opened Includes many image enhancement options such as unsharp mask guassian blur cropping annotation median binary filter math filters intelligent resizing high pass filter background subtraction distort and 3D effects Oilify Glow Impressionist Wave Shear Flip Reverse Rotate Histogram Brightness Contrast Intensity Auto Color Level Colorize Solarize Posterize Lighting Hue Saturation Remap Intensity Spatial Filters and many others Unique history toolbar keeps copies of all your changes so you can go back to prior images Convert an image from one file format to another Increase and decrease color depth Create simple animations by combining images together Color Separation and Color Merge tools Web tuner lets you play with JPEG GIF and PNG so that you can see the effect of file size and compression differences before saving the image Region processing lets you select a portion of the image and perform processing on just that region Supports TWAIN scanners Thumbnail image b
114. supply your own filter or use one of the predefined filters Usage Performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Page 195 Other Image Effects Page 196 Effect Annotation Add your own text Description Add text of your choice to an image in a variety of fonts colors and orientations Usage Ci a ean add you ql b Li r si This is text A a This is text you can add ppe tieo hoA 1Xa 8 SIU e A xa ICI O i le 0 Di A O ag i A Page 197 Effect Rotation Description Rotate an image any number of degrees Usage Use to rotate the object in 1 degree increments Page 198 Effect Shear Description Move the corners of the bitmap in the fashion of a parallelogram Usage You specify an angle of slant horizontal or vertical shear and the fill color for the created space The angle is expressed in hundredths of degrees with a limit of 4500 45 degrees Page 199 Color and Brightness Adjustments Page 200 Effect Invert Description Inverts the colors in the specified image making it like a photographic negative Usage Converting the image to its photographic negative Page 201 Effect Intensity Detect Description Divides the image into binary segments according to specified thresholds Usage This filter is used to segmenting the image and converting the image into a binary
115. t Using different masks result in different alterations of the image Usage For applying various 3D effects to the image Page 149 Effect Ripple Description Warps the image in concentric rings Usage Makes the image look like as if it is reflected on water ripples Page 150 Effect Bending Description Warps the active image along a curved plane centered on the pivot point Usage Makes the image look like as if it has been bent Page 151 Effect Cylindrical Description Warps the image around a cylinder Usage Makes the image look like as if it has been wrapped around a cylinder Page 152 Effect Spherize Description Warps the image around a 3D spherical shape Usage Makes the image look like as if it has been viewed through a spherical glass Page 153 Page 154 Effect Plane Bend Description Places the image on parallel planes along the Z axis bended toward the center point Usage Places the image on parallel planes along the Z axis bended toward the center point Page 155 Effect ZigZag Description Radially distorts the image by creating waves that twist the image around a specified center Usage Add zigzag like distortions to the image Page 156 Effect Add Shadow Description Adds Shadow to the image Usage Simulation of a light source that reflects a shadow Page 157 Add Shadow 0 Colored Threshold Page 158 Artistic Effects Pa
116. t Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the foreground color e Change the node properties e Change the fixed properties e If the object has multiple nodes Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Protractor Tool The Protractor annotation object ANN OBJECT _PROTRACTOR consists of two simple lines joined at a vertex to create an angle With the automated functions the first line of the protractor is started ona Page 8 mouse down event and completed on a second mouse down event The second line is completed on a third mouse down event Holding down the Shift key while drawing either of the two lines will draw the line at an angle that is a multiple of 45 degrees In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style prop
117. t Read Support Write Description Support FILE WPG 1 4 8 BPP 1 4 8 BPP 54 WordPerfect Graphics Format Page 98 XPM XpicMap Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_XPM 6 16 24 32 BPP 6 16 24 32 BPP 109 XWindows XPicMap XWD X WindowDump Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_XWD10 1 4 8 BPP 1 4 8 BPP 132 XWindows X Window dump version 10 FILE_XWD11 1 4 8 16 24 32 BPP 1 4 8 16 24 32 BPP 133 XWindows X Window dump version 11 ABC ABC Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE_ABC 1 BPP 1 BPP 32 LEAD ABC 1 bit lossless compression FILE_TIF_ABC 1BPP 1 BPP 180 TIFF with LEAD ABC 1 bit lossless compression AWD Microsoft FAX Format Constant Read Support Write Support Description FILE AWD 1BPP 1 BPP 99 Microsoft FAX format CAL CALS Raster Format Constant Read Support Write Description Support FILE CAL s 1 BPP 4 BPP 50 CALS Raster fle 0 CALS Raster file FILE CALS2 1 BPP 1 BPP 130 CALS CCITT G4 compressed FILE CALS3 1BPP 1 BPP 131 CALS Fax Group 4 compressed FILE CALS4 1 BPP 1 BPP 129 CALS CCITT G4 Tiled CMP LEAD 1 Bit Format Consta Read Support ES Write Support Description FILE LEADIBITA 1BPP 31 LEAD Proprietary 1 bit Compression Format type A FILE LEADIBIT 26 LE
118. t azm mount without auto guiding captured the following image using my 8 LX200R with the Mallincam Color The final image is a stack of eight 28 second frames Page 34 Capturing Video in Deepsky Imaging ual Capture Video From Stellacam or other Camera Using Microsoft Direct Show EX Ed Full Screen Mode te Stopwatch aco Video Settings La Video Capture Pin Video Preview Window Current Captured Image Capture Size Recommended 2 Capture Setting 320 x 240 o 52 x 288 640 x 480 Stellacam Mallincam 640 x 576 720x450 Stellacam Mallincam 720x576 756 x 520 Mallincam Custom AVerMedia Capture Capture Video Frame JULIE IL IL JE IL JT CLEAR Capture Folder red i a will be Program Files x86 DeepskylmagingiMyVideoCapture TIP New to this version of Deepsky Imaging you can either capture your video as a single TIF image or as an uncompressed AVI file If you go the TIF route capturing video is easy in Deepsky Imaging because it takes care of converting the raw AVI image from the camera into a TIF image It then stores the result in an organized folder called MyVideoCapture under the Deepsky Imaging program folder Windows Vista users may have trouble saving captures to this folder unless UAC is turned off or they run Deepsky Imaging as an Administrator New to this version you can specify a different path in preferences so that the captures get stored ina folder that Windows Vista likes
119. t the text To get out of edit mode Page 79 e Press escape This cancels the changes e Press Ctrl Enter This accepts the changes e Click outside the edit box This accepts the changes In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Edit the text e Set the primary and secondary bitmaps e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Rectangle Tool The Rectangle annotation object is a simple rectangle In design mode click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rectangle will make the rectangle annotation square In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation
120. t user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard Page 83 e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Change the Name properties e Change the fill mode e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the font selection and font characteristics e Edit the text e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Le Text Pointer Tool The text pointer annotation object ANN_OBJECT_TEXTPOINTER is a rectangle with a line that starts from one of the four corners The other endpoint of the line can be moved to point to anything on the underlying image The rectangle contains a character string with font properties The text will wrap on word breaks within the object s specified rectangle In design mode click and drag to specify the rectangle in the current window After letting up on the mouse button the rectangle is specified Moving the mouse now specifies the line with a final mouse click defining the line Holding down the Shift key while drawing the rectangle will make the text annotation square Holding down the Shift Key will snap the line to angles of 45 degrees After the text pointer is defined a dialog box then lets the user enter the text As soon as the Text object is created the text will be highlighted The text may be edited immediately While i
121. the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then select Add Node To delete a node click on the node you wish to delete and select Delete Node e Change the Name properties Page 77 e Change the line width and style properties e Change the binary raster operation ROP2 code e Change the fill mode and the fill pattern e Change the polygonal fill mode which controls which areas are filled when lines cross e Change the foreground and background colors e Change the node properties e Change the fixed properties e Set and manage hyperlink properties for an object or group of objects Go Polyline Tool The Polyline annotation object is an array of points that create a sequence of joined lines In design mode each line segment is formed with a mouse click and the object is completed on a double click In design mode click on the object with the right mouse button to do the following e Undo the last user action e Cut or copy the object to the clipboard e Delete the object e Select all objects e Bring the object to the front or send it to the back e Lock and unlock annotation objects e Ifthe object has multiple nodes Add or delete nodes Add a node by clicking on the spot where you wish to add a node then selec
122. then call Deepsky Stacker to stack the images automatically Page 31 using the Deepsky Stacker settings you first set up As Deepsky Stacker processes your images you will see a command window like the one shown below e C Program Files DeepSkyStacker DeepSkyStackerCL exe tacking m1 7017 1 jpg 277 stars Registering C data Deepsky 79 DSImaging sampleimages Samples Aligning tacking miY mi 1 Jjpg 282 stars Registering G ixdata Deepsky 79 DSImaging sampleimages Samples Aligning tacking m17 m17 1 jpg 285 stars Registering C i data Deepsky P9 D8 Tmagings sanpleimages Samnples Aligning tacking m1 017 1 jpqg lt 288 stars Registering Ci data Deepsky 99 D58Imaging sampleimages Samplezs Aligning tacking sm17 m17 1 jpq 291 stars Registering data Deepsky 99 D5S1magingssampleimages 5amples Aligning tacking m17 m17 1 jpqg 294 stars Registering GCi data Deepsky 995D581maging sampleimages 5amplezs Aligning tacking ml ml 7 1 Jpg 298 stars Registering C data Deepsky 99D58Imaging sampleimages Samples Aligning tacking ml mil7 1 Jpg 361 stars Registering 2 on Loading bitch JPEG light frame Cixdata Deepsky 99 DSImaging sampleimages Samples for Aligning and Stacking mi mi 2 Jpg Detecting hot pixels Computing luminances C data Deepsky 7 79 DSImaging sampleimages Samples for Align ing and Stacking ml ml 7 2 Jpg Registering C i data Deepsky 99 DSImaging xsampleimages Samples for Aligni
123. tions and remove abrupt sharpen Page 187 Effect Edge Detect Effect Description Detects the edges in an image and their strength Usage Detects edges in the image Page 188 Spatial Filters Page 189 Effect Spatial Gradient Description Imposes a spatial filter on an image You can supply your own filter or use one of the predefined filters Usage Performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Page 190 Effect Spatial Laplacian Description Imposes a spatial filter on an image You can supply your own filter or use one of the predefined filters Usage Performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Page 191 Effect Spatial Sobel Description Imposes a spatial filter on an image You can supply your own filter or use one of the predefined filters Usage Performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Page 192 Effect Spatial Prewitt Description Imposes a spatial filter on an image You can supply your own filter or use one of the predefined filters Usage Performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Page 193 Effect Spatial Shift amp Difference Description Imposes a spatial filter on an image You can supply your own filter or use one of the predefined filters Usage Performs a user defined effect by using suitable mask Page 194 Effect Spatial Line Segment Description Imposes a spatial filter on an image You can
124. tor permissions 2 It s highly recommended that you have your Windows operating system up to date with patches and security fixes You can run Windows Update manually by visiting the Microsoft website at http www windowsupdate com 3 Saving of captures may not work properly in Windows Vista if you use the default MyVideoCapture folder in the Deepsky Imaging folder You can change this location in preferences or turn off Vista s UAC Before we get started discussing the particulars you may be interested in reading about some key terminology and concepts after you install the software Page 12 Terminology Used in Deepsky Imaging Annotations Annotations which are based on vectored drawing functions are associated with an image only as an overlay of the displayed image Use annotations to mark up your image without actually damaging the image The individual annotation objects are stored in a separate file with the same name as the image but with a file extension of ANN Bias Frame This is a zero length exposure taken with a CCD camera with the shutter closed It is used to compensate for pixel specific offsets in the CCD chip and electronics Bitmap A bitmap is the image data in memory CCD This stands for Charge Coupled Device and contains an array of light sensitive pixels Deepsky Stacker This is an awesome freeware image stacking program that interfaces directly with Deepsky Imaging The software is free to download and s
125. tton reloads the preview screen with the original image without any of your changes You will find this option useful as you try different parameters on the dialog as you experiment with different effects OK click this button to apply your changes to your main image If you make a mistake and want to undo the operation simply click the UNDO button on the toolbar This button lets you go back one processing task If you want to go back further that that you should use the Image History Toolbar Image History Toolbar The image history toolbar keeps track of all your changes to an image You can use it as kind of a super UNDO function to revert back to earlier versions of your images Prior to making changes to an image Deepsky will make a copy of your image placing it in the HISTORY folder If you make a mistake on an image you can find a suitable copy of the image in the history toolbar and click the thumbnail to load the image back into Deepsky Imaging Keep in mind that the image will be loaded into its own new window so your other image will still be there unless you close it Deepsky Image Processing C data Deepsky 99 DSImaging sampleimages moonshadows png A File Edit View Animation Image Effects Color Preferences Window Help Browse 2 Open H Save A SaveAs 19 Es y Program Options P A R A L R Last Command Reset Preferences Requires Program Restart Dithering Paint Scaling si gt Paint Palette
126. ture and clear the MyVideoCapture folder IMPORTANT NOTE Not all capture sizes will work with your camera If one doesn t work for you try another If none work you can put in a custom size like 520 x 280 at the bottom and then click APPLY 640x480 seems to work well for Stellacam and Mallincam video cameras Other cameras such as webcams may require the custom setting Page 37 Still Capture Tab The still capture tab is where you will be capturing your images as TIF files either 1 at a time manually or using the automated capture process ia Capture Video From Stellacam or other Camera Using Microsoft Direct Show pu Ed Full Screen Mode O Stopwatch wa Video Settings La Video Capture Pin Video Preview Window pte Stil Capture AVI Capture i Set Object Being Imaged Single Frame Manual Capture Capture a series of images Use a descriptive name for your image For instance if you are taking a 30 second exposure of M17 you might enter this as being M17 30 Seconds Current Captured Image lt OR gt interval between captures in seconds Stop after count reaches this value 50 Session Capture History Click object to select Capture Video Frame Start Sequence Stop Sequence Image Counter for this Sequence 0 Seconds until next capture 0 Q Goto Capture Folder Close The object being imaged text box is where you put the name and other info about the object b
127. urable and multiple zoom views can be active on a single image X Zoom View Options i i Source Rectangle Destination Rectangle SI Appearance Shape 0 Rectangle Y i I o s I Border Style o None Appearance 2 39 gt i Callout Em ape V Enable Callout min Pen Style 4 Dash Be E Kobe SUS Zoom Factor 200 2 View FITS header View header information of the currently shown FITS image FITS Header Information SIMPLE T FITS TAPE WRITTEN AT KPNO 0 BITPIX 16 2 BYTE 2 S COMPLEMENT INTE NAXIS 2 NUMBER OF AXES NAXIS1 512 NUMBER OF PIXELS PER ROW NAXIS2 512 NUMBER OF ROWS BSCALE 1 0000 PHYSICAL INTEGER BSC BZERO 0 BLANK 32768 INTEGER VALUE FOR BLANK IPPS RF D 12 RASTER LF IPPS ID MP630 M42 HB BLANKS FOR D gt 5 IPPS B P 12 BITS PIXEL OF IPPS RASTER IPPS MIN 110 000 MINIMUM VALUE IN Ri IPPS MAX 2044 00 MAXIMUM VALUE IN RE ORIGIN RENO WFITS OF 09 13 79 Page 45 Animation Menu Creste n Effects Animation Image Loop Optimize Colors Screen Settings Frame Settings Image Menu Effects Preferences Add Text to Image Easiest method to add text to an image Ellipse Properties AL Add Text to Image 8 Annotation r PE Add Ti he i TE Jef Fip Vertical _ _ _ ga ab 1 Specify Font and Color Fi Horizontal porco I sca E Crop to New Image Arial 22 ls Reverse 2 Specify Text Positi
128. wn for each image To open the image just click the thumbnail You can leave the browser open while you work in case you want to open another image 4 The next version of Deepsky Astronomy Software will interface directly to Deepsky Imaging While using Deepsky Astronomy Software you will be able to double click images you see in the software and have them shown in Deepsky Imaging Saving Images Once you have an image open you can save it at any time using the SAVE or SAVE AS buttons For a few image formats like JPEG you will only be able to do a SAVE AS so that you don t save over the original image Since JPEG uses compression every time you save the image quality is lost If you click the SAVE icon by mistake don t worry you will be prompted to save it to a different filename The Convert option on the FILE menu gives you extensive capability to save your image into another file format utilizing special attributes of that format For example if you convert a file to JPEG you have the option of specifying bit depth sub type quality factor and other options 4 Save ka save As Convert The Convert option even lets you specify a folder to do a batch conversion of all of the images in that folder You have the ability to take multiple format images in one folder and convert them to a single format placing them in another folder You can even resize them or rotate them Page 22 File Conversion Source File s File
129. y specified point on the image Usage Makes the image look like as if it is reflected on radial waves Page 134 Effect Swirl Description Spins the image according to the rotation angle to produce a swirl pattern Usage Makes the image look like as if it has been swallowed by a swirl Page 135 Before After Page 136 Effect Wave Description Distorts the image with two perpendicular waves in any specified direction or shape Usage Makes the image look like as if it is reflected on waves Page 137 Before After Page 138 Effect Wave Shear Description Shears the image by the wave drawn Usage Produces an image that has been sheared vertically or horizontally or both Page 139 Before After Page 140 Effect Rev Effect Description Creates a pseudo 3D wave effect based on the brightness along each line Usage Simulation of a wave monitor Page 141 Effect Ocean Description Reflects the image on an ocean surface Usage Make the image as Reflected on an ocean surface Page 142 Page 143 3 D Effects Page 144 Effect Emboss Description Applies an emboss effect to an image letting you specify the depth and direction of the effect Usage Creating a 3D view highlight the edges by 3D effect Page 145 Effect Punch Description Warps the image by pinching it toward the center or expanding the image away from its center Usage Makes t

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