I had bought and used this program a few months back. It is awesome, but your video is epic! This makes it so much more than I had before. Thanks. Again, looking forward to getting out into the New Mexico desert in another month to catch the Milky Way above an ancient Pueblo village. Should be an amazing trip. Cheers!
The guys at Canberra photography Workshops put me onto this video. I have been trying to find a solution to improve my nightscape photography and this is brilliant. Thanks
Thank you John for a great video. I did try to light up bigger bright stars. I got a problem with small stars that are close to the big stars. It does not look natural. It is difficult to pain white on the mask to open correct amount of the big stars. Do you have a way to tackle this problem?
Dude 🤯 I have watched heaps of your videos and not sure how I missed this one 😅 will definitely be giving this one a go, I have been struggling with flat milkyway shots and this looks like it could make the world of difference 👌 thanks so much for your amazing channel 👊
Awesome video John. I love starXterminator and I've been using it a bit also for these nebulas etc during the summer season here in OZ. Really well explained mate.
Excellent video and awesome results on the Milky Way.............have you tried this plugin on nebula photos such as the Seagull, or Flaming Star? Would like a better feel for how it would work with something like that as it seems to be a much better work flow before purchasing.
Awesome mate! You just saved me a bunch of time re writing part of the manual! 😂😂 You need to come for a visit too, have some killer locations picked out up here.
quick question sr I bought this program yesterday but the only difference I perceive is that my program says noise and yours says star but in the images they do not have any change. they have two diferentes program? noise and star
Why do you merge the layers? What happens if you don't? Would be nice if you give the files names so it is more easy to follow. Had to watch it three times until I got the workflow!
Another use of starXterminator comes to mind. When I am out people who are shooting the milky way for the first time, they might not have big apeture glass, or a tracker, and will be shooting higher isos, and / or their camera is older and noiser at these higher isos. Seems like a good option for them to remove the stars, then run their regular denoiser of choice, then add the stars back to the denoised image. I will experiment with this. Could give clean results with f3.5 kit lenses.
If images need noise reduction it is the perfect time to apply reduction when the stars are removed, I haven't tried it with a noisy camera but I have used this technique a few times and it works great!!
That is so cool. You should have a bucket more sub's. Thanks... Do you use the sky replacement feature in photoshop? I mean do you blend you're landscapes with you're sky images?
Thanks Trevor, I don't utilise the replacement feature itself but I do shoot my skies with a tracker which means needing to blend a static foreground in, I just do it manually.
dude awesome. i used another one but found it better out of the box for deep sky, where the stars occupy more pixels. it didn't do GREAT for wide field but i'll give this one a try. Thanks so much for sharing, man!
@@johnrutterphotography yeah! that's what I tried. I think if someone knew all the parameters or the program it could be good, but that's not what I'm after. this one seems plug and play. like you said, definitely worth $60 for the flexibility it brings
there are two star separation programs. I use them for DSO...never thought to try on my normal astro. Star exterminator is the best of the two i have . there is also a star program that adds creative stuff like colour and flare etc very cool for DSO
I like your videos, they are very informative. I do have one suggestion. Please normalize the volume between the voice and the music, the music is too loud.
I had bought and used this program a few months back. It is awesome, but your video is epic! This makes it so much more than I had before. Thanks. Again, looking forward to getting out into the New Mexico desert in another month to catch the Milky Way above an ancient Pueblo village. Should be an amazing trip. Cheers!
WOW! Starxterminater!! I'm going to go back and reprocess all of my older photos with this. Thank you
The guys at Canberra photography Workshops put me onto this video. I have been trying to find a solution to improve my nightscape photography and this is brilliant. Thanks
Is there a free photoshop of milky way?😢
Thank you John for a great video. I did try to light up bigger bright stars. I got a problem with small stars that are close to the big stars. It does not look natural. It is difficult to pain white on the mask to open correct amount of the big stars. Do you have a way to tackle this problem?
Nice, easy to follow great result cant wait to give it a go
It's a really usefull tool. I use it for every image
I have watched this video a few times in the past year and now I get it. The two star layers makes all the difference.
It definitely does mate.
Dude 🤯 I have watched heaps of your videos and not sure how I missed this one 😅 will definitely be giving this one a go, I have been struggling with flat milkyway shots and this looks like it could make the world of difference 👌 thanks so much for your amazing channel 👊
Awesome mate, hope it helps out 👍
Awesome video John. I love starXterminator and I've been using it a bit also for these nebulas etc during the summer season here in OZ. Really well explained mate.
Thanks Richard, and thanks for putting me onto it. Can't wait to use this more in the core season
Excellent video and awesome results on the Milky Way.............have you tried this plugin on nebula photos such as the Seagull, or Flaming Star? Would like a better feel for how it would work with something like that as it seems to be a much better work flow before purchasing.
It works with deep space images too!
Great, did the trial, works as you described, made the purchase................Clear Skies!
Awesome video John will have to check the StarXterminator plug-in out👍
It's definitely worth a look Dennis
Thanks a lot sir. This is amazing, will surely try this.
Your welcome, it's a great piece of software
amazing tips!! how and what do you edit in the stars only images ? Could you shed some light on to this please? 😊
Not a great deal on the stars only. I mostly use this for editing the background sky and just put the stars back smaller
Nice. Thank you.
This is a great workflow. Did it different but I like this way more then mine! Thx for the explanation
Cheers mate, glad you got something out of it 👍
Awesome!!!
Cheers mate
Awesome mate! You just saved me a bunch of time re writing part of the manual! 😂😂
You need to come for a visit too, have some killer locations picked out up here.
Too easy mate, hope it helps out 👍
great Video (as usual). Been using this software for deep sky and it is amazing. love your workflow.
Thanks Eric, I appreciate that mate
I might try that out sometime! I’ve just been applying a quick morphological transformation in Pixinsight
Definitely worth a try, it's alot cleaner process than starnet ++ or the morphological transformation
quick question sr I bought this program yesterday but the only difference I perceive is that my program says noise and yours says star but in the images they do not have any change. they have two diferentes program? noise and star
There are 2 different programs, star xterminator and noise xterminator
@@johnrutterphotography I saw it thank you
Why do you merge the layers? What happens if you don't? Would be nice if you give the files names so it is more easy to follow. Had to watch it three times until I got the workflow!
Another use of starXterminator comes to mind. When I am out people who are shooting the milky way for the first time, they might not have big apeture glass, or a tracker, and will be shooting higher isos, and / or their camera is older and noiser at these higher isos.
Seems like a good option for them to remove the stars, then run their regular denoiser of choice, then add the stars back to the denoised image. I will experiment with this. Could give clean results with f3.5 kit lenses.
If images need noise reduction it is the perfect time to apply reduction when the stars are removed, I haven't tried it with a noisy camera but I have used this technique a few times and it works great!!
Perfect John, thank you.
My pleasure mate 👍
Great work, as always. I’m looking to get my Sony A7RIII astro modified. Is there anywhere you’d recommend in Aus?
Thanks Graham, camera clinic in Melbourne done my modification and I'm really happy with it
@@johnrutterphotography Thanks mate, I’ll give them a call. 👍🏼
That is so cool. You should have a bucket more sub's. Thanks...
Do you use the sky replacement feature in photoshop? I mean do you blend you're landscapes with you're sky images?
Thanks Trevor, I don't utilise the replacement feature itself but I do shoot my skies with a tracker which means needing to blend a static foreground in, I just do it manually.
THANKYOU...
Your welcome
dude awesome. i used another one but found it better out of the box for deep sky, where the stars occupy more pixels. it didn't do GREAT for wide field but i'll give this one a try. Thanks so much for sharing, man!
My pleasure Caleb, I use to use starnet ++ but it performs no where near as good as this one.
@@johnrutterphotography yeah! that's what I tried. I think if someone knew all the parameters or the program it could be good, but that's not what I'm after. this one seems plug and play. like you said, definitely worth $60 for the flexibility it brings
there are two star separation programs. I use them for DSO...never thought to try on my normal astro. Star exterminator is the best of the two i have . there is also a star program that adds creative stuff like colour and flare etc very cool for DSO
It's definitely a great program 👍
Starnett 2.0 fresh download for 2024 is amazing for deep sky.
Clear skies
Thanks for the great video ! Unfortunately, the program removed all the stars from Rho Ophiuchi :(
Thanks Mik, you can just mask the stars back in where you like
I like your videos, they are very informative. I do have one suggestion. Please normalize the volume between the voice and the music, the music is too loud.
Thanks for the feedback Scott I appreciate it and will keep in mind for future videos.
Another great tutorial mate, I’ll have to check this program out!
Where’s the affiliate link 😉
Cheers mate, one day maybe on the affiliate link 👍
Dude, I'm watching you by translation. It would be better if you explain a little slower. It's hard to read the subtitles and watch you :) :) :)
Thankyou for that feedback, I will keep that in mind for the future.