StarShrink

Star size adjustment

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$49.95

StarShrink is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that provides astrophotographers with a tool to shrink bloated, fuzzy stars for cleaner, more aesthetic photographs. StarShrink works differently from traditional sharpening and deconvolution techniques, and in fact it can work in tandem with these methods.

In some ways, StarShrink is similar to Photoshop’s built-in Spherize or Pinch filters, but it processes all stars in an image at once, eliminating hours of manual editing and producing a much more consistent result.

A tutorial on how to use StarShrink is available here.

System Requirements

✅  Photoshop
✅  Affinity Photo
❌  PixInsight

  • Windows 10 or later
  • MacOS 10.9 (Mavericks) or later
  • Photoshop CS4 or later (64-bit only)
  • PixInsight 1.0 or later

Revision History

Version Date Changes
1.3.0 25 Nov 2022 Updated the MacOS and Windows installers to add installation for Affinity Photo 2. No changes to the plugin.
1.3.0 5 Nov 2022 Corrected undersized preview on MacOS. Fixed the cause of crashes on certain images with certain parameter settings. Increased the size of the preview and made it easier to navigate a large image. Only available in the 64-bit version.
1.2.0 12 March 2022 Eliminates the need to re-enter license information for each use when using Affinity Photo.