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![]() AHPS (Astro Hot Pixel Studio, working title) is a Photoshop(R) compatible filter that helps to remove Hot Pixels from RGB images. While it is mainly aimed as astronomical long exposure images it may also work for other image types.
AHPS performs a statistical analysis on the image data and interpolates the areas where hot pixels or cosmics are detected. 'Hot pixels' are imperfections in a CCD that saturate very fast and will show as red, green or blue dots in long exposures. While these can be mapped out using a standard dark frame substraction method 'cosmics' can't, because they appear whenever a freak cosmic ray hits the sensor and are completely random in nature. Most other Hot Pixel remove tools work automatic, basically as median filter to elminate small elements in image data. For astro images this can be a problem as small stars are often detected as hot pixels and stripped away. In contrast AHPS works interactive - you have to tell the filter in a first pass how to identify the Hot Pixels and later to repair the selected pixel. This approach should make AHPS more powerful at maintaining image integrity and fidelity.
PrerequisitesAdobe Photoshop 5.0 (Win32, 32bit) or newer, any other Adobe PS plugin compatible software Installation: Copy the filter to the Photoshop plug-in filter directory. Deinstallation is just as easy, just remove the file from the directory.
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Limitations of the public versionNone! AHPS is now completely free. Just download it and be happy. You have ideas for improvements, wishes or suggestions for future versions? - just send me a message... see the link on the bottom of the page.
CopyrightThis is a copyrighted work of Frank Siegert, 2004-2005, All rights reserved. Usage is allowed only for personal and non-commercial purposes, commercial redistribution is prohibited. Created with Filtermeister. Usage is at your own risk, I am not responsible for lost data, business interruptions, dead systems, burning cows or alien abductions. Please provide feedback if you encounter an error or you like to have something changed/improved. Download the plugin (V1d), 18. Oct 2005 Changes since 1c: Hot pixel count and map creation added Changes since 1b: The point checker (ensures only point sources are identified as hot pixels) for the hot pixel detection pass is now optional and configurable. Previously it was the same as the Repair Range slider. Plans for next release: Reuse of reference hot pixel maps, better interpolation techniques for repair Contact: Frank Siegert Made with Filtermeister, Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Inc. Please visit my Deepsky Image Album. If you find AHPS interesting please check out my other work:
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