You've been reading the PhotoTrader hey? - And I know that you're not sorry! AndrewF >Sorry to the mac community, Windoze owners only need apply > >SGBNR > >Selective Gaussian Blur Noise Reduction from >http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/software/en.html will be a >program that many >photographers will want to take advantage of, especially given that >it's free. It is a >small application using an algorithm written by Juan Conejero and >Maribel Carracedo >designed to remove backround noise in astrophotography - check the >web site for more >specifications on how it works but let me tell you from my initial >fiddling, I'm more than >impressed! > >It's not a fast program, but then it's doing some serious number >crunching in achieving >it's goal - and the goal it achieves is a good one. When they say >it's selective they >mean it. I don't think I'll ever be using PS for this task again :-) > >karl