I have completed Part 1 of the CCDStack Online Tutorial Series.

This tutorial is an overview of the CCDStack workflow to turn your raw CCD images into a full color LRGB tiff file.

I am very intrested in your feedback as I will be creating many more tutorials for CCDStack and other products in the next few weeks.

http://www.ccdware.com/tutorials/ccdstack/overview.html

Let me know what you think!

Best,

rb

Very good, Rick. Together with the written one it's extremely useful. Can you get John to do one for CCDAP?
Don

Don,

Rick will be doing the tutorial for CCDAP3. He is the multimedia expert

I will be creating a whole series of tutorials for CCDAP Version 3.0.

Stay tuned.

rb

Richard,
I purchased both CCDSTACK and INSPECTOR. I finally had a couple of clear nights and tried CCDSTACK on my raw data. I am very impressed. The video is essential for a non computer guy like myself. I was able to get a pretty good Lum intuitively. Then after watching the video I got even better results as I am a more visual(show me and I can do it rather than reading about it) person. I went to Ron W's image processing camp and was able to pick up a LOT but I believe a program like ccdstack is what will really push my images to the next level. PLEASE do more videos on this and INSPECTOR!! I am eager to try out inspector but would like to watch the basics first. Thanks for a GREAT program. Dean A

Richard,

I just watched your tutorial on CCDStack. As usual, an excellent job. I have one question about the processing steps. After registering the stack, you resampled the images. What is the purpose of the resample. I have never resampled images following alignment and prior to combining. Have I been missing an important step?

Thanks,
George

Richard: absolutely great stuff.

Best regards
Guido

Rick,

Excellent tutorial. I was able to follow it all the way through.

Can't wait for the next one.

Clear skies!

Isaac

Excellent tutorial, Rick. I just downloaded the trial version, and was flummoxed until I found this.

But I still have one problem--I went through the process with some images, right through the color combine. I went to "full screen." It's pretty. Now I want to save it, and I can't get back any tool bars, or any other evidence of the software. I've clicked on the screen, both right and left click, to no avail.

It's a pretty picture on my screen, but no way to do anything with it. Did the software freeze, or am I missing something?

Interesting. 15 minutes later, as I finished re-doing it, the first one came back to life.

Fortunately, both results were identical.

I've got to do something about these gremlins!

Thanks Mark.

I just hit ESC and everything comes back.

CTRL + L also does the trick.

rb

are any more tutorials planned?

bud

Hi,

Are there any more tutorials out there that take us beyond the basics? That is a fabulous tutorial I wish other companies would learn from, but I have a feeling that there are many, many more advanced features in CCDStack I could learn from.

Thanks in advance.
Paul Maxson

Hi Paul,

I will release a new version with an updated Help file this coming week. Hopefully the tutorials will be revised some time after that.

The Help system's "Concepts" is worth reading because it explains things from a largely theoretical/conceptual perspective. Because it is so terse and concise you may benefit from revisiting it from time to time.

And of course, a good way to explore software is to just play with it and see what happens.

Stan

I like it but unfortunately I've only been able to view half of it because it stops loading around 5 minutes. I've tried on two seperate computers and both have DSL. Is there a lower res qtime to send out? Suggestions?