Launch Starry Landscape Stacker, and under 'Help' in the menu bar select 'Email Developer'. There are two image alignment methods available from this app: ORB and ECC. Using a fast video camera, noisy and slightly distorted images are obtained, that can be combined into a single high quality image using this software.

Supported input formats: JPG, TIF (8bit per channel) Supported output format: JPG, TIF (8bpc), TIFF (16bpc) Merge arlgorithm: fancy average. AutoStakkert (AS3, AS2) is lucky imaging software used to automatically analyze, align, and stack images of the Sun, Moon and Planets that were taken through a telescope. Program includes many configurable options like ability to personalize the name, file format or choice of file size. Perhaps you could contact me directly and we can find a way to make masking easier for you. This is a simple utility that tries to do one thing and one thing only, letting you merge multiple photos into one. Easy and free tool for taking windows desktop snapshots. I am not sure how having a feathered brush makes it easier to make a mask. The edge of the mask has to have a hard edge-feathered alignment just does not work. I am not sure how Ian Norman's tutorial showed a feathered brush. However, DeepSkyStacker is completely free and continues to receive new updates from the developer (version 4.2. Other than the paint brush feather issue this is a great app and very user friendly! I’ve achieved my best astro shots with the help of this app. There are several applications available to register, calibrate, and stack astrophotography images including Astro Pixel Processor, and PixInsight. I saw in Ian Norman’s tutorial video that his brush was feathered and there is no obvious way to achieve that in the app. Extremely simple to use, it allows us to properly stack the sky and the foreground independently to create a compelling starry landscape.

How can you feather the paint brush when masking? The paint brush is set to the hardest edge possible and that makes masking a very time consuming and tedeous process. If you are a starry landscape photographer and a Mac user, this little software is a must-have.

Free image stacker software