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Comment by Trevor Woodrow on June 25, 2011 at 9:30am

lol, better focusing will do it...on a ccd an IR filter will help...and then Carboni has a tool to shrink stars...you can also try this which I forget who gave me but I use in CS2:
“Shrinking Stars” trick (from Jack attributed to Dan Verschatse):

1. Open the image file
2. Select > Color Range
3. Choose a bright bloated star
4. Exit Color Range
5. Select Modify Expand
6. Choose a reasonable expansion to include halos (say 8 to 10
pixels)
7. Set Feather to about 3 pixels plus or minus 1 pixel
8. Filter > Other > Minimize > radius (1 pixel) > OK

I am sure that almost everyone on here has their own process.

Comment by Patrick Forster on June 25, 2011 at 9:05am

Pre shot star shrinking? Lower the ISO?? Or just better focusing?

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on June 25, 2011 at 1:04am

Lots of little tricks you can use to shrink them too. pre and post shot. It's a learning process my man. I learn something new everytime I log on.

Comment by Patrick Forster on June 24, 2011 at 8:18pm

ThanksTrevor,
perhaps longer exposure and lower ISO would help star bloat.

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on June 24, 2011 at 6:41pm

so just 12 minutes total exposure? NOt bad at all my friend

Comment by Patrick Forster on June 24, 2011 at 1:29pm

details here