SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Humm... Chinese take-out?

Oknoder Loc: Western North Dakota

Naw that would require both effort and personal money.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

I'll be sure and look for blood when I get home.
;) ;)

Oknoder Loc: Western North Dakota

instead of going back and correcting the words I just typed damn autocorrect, above my signature, but all your guy's jokes have led me to the conclusion I will not be doing that again.

LMFAO,
Matthew

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

I'm posting an image in which I created star effects using the Stars Plugin from Topaz. It's very easy to do this:

1) Pick a preset -- I used "Starry Night I" which is the least flamboyant.

2) Under Star Settings, pick "Combined". It has the option to throw away everything except what it is going to select, and I don't want that.

Under Main Adjustments:

3) There is a slider for threshold - I can adjust the level of brightness it takes to be affected by this effect. In this case, I adjusted to the point that 7 stars were affected.

4) A slider for Luminance. I could boost the brightness of the selected stars. I didn't.

5) A slider for size. This adjusts the length of the spikes.

6) A slider for angle. I wanted vertical and horizontal spikes.

7) A slider for number of points. I picked 4.

8) A slider for spread. This can grow the stars.

There are also color effects, saturation effects, temperature, secondary points, glow, ring flare.

The image I am including is part of the Auriga constellation. Capella is one of the stars in this constellation, but not this image. I was using a 35mm lens on the Atik Infinity camera and was getting a sense of the size of my field of view.

I see I managed to pick up a jet going overhead as well as something much fainter but perfectly parallel, it also looks like a plane lining up with the airport. Maybe it was a small private plane.

Sample with Star Effects.

(Download)