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Download the ESA/ESO/NASA
Photoshop FITS Liberator v2.1
There are two ways of installing the FITS Liberator, either manually or by using a setup program. In both cases you must be a local administrator to install the plug-in. By default all users on Windows XP and Mac OS X machines are local administrators.
Automatic installation
Manual installation
The installation contains the following files. Feel free to install
them manually, i.e. download the files and save them in the indicated
directories (close Photoshop first).
Mac
- License: License.txt (by copying
the SOFTWARE onto your computer hard
drive, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement)
- FitsLiberator2.zip (1.1 MB) the main plug-in file (save the file in your File Format Plug-in directory, e.g. /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS2/Plug-ins/File Formats )
- Colour_composite.atn: A
Photoshop CS2/CS/7.0 "Action" for producing colour images
from a Photoshop file with three greyscale layers (save the
file in your Actions directory, e.g. /Applications/Adobe Photoshop
CS/Presets/Photoshop Actions).
- Load the Action: In the Action Window (Window -> Action)
select Load Actions -> Colour_composite.atn (the small
arrow in the upper right corner)
- Open e.g. three (aligned) greyscale exposures of the same
object in Photoshop.
- Copy the three files into three layers of the same file.
- For each layer:
- Select the layer, for instance the Blue layer
- Play the "Blue Layer" part of the Action.
- Answer "Don't Merge", if that question comes.
- Adjust layers as appropriate
- FITS Concatenator.zip: This Adobe Photoshop script will combine the metadata from two or more individual exposures after the FITS Liberation process (unpack files to Photoshop scripts dir, e.g. /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS 2/Presets/Scripts).
- MosaicatorGUI.zip: Standalone program that will generate a single WFPC2 mosaic'ed file from one WFPC2 file containing four CCD images in individual planes (save in your Applications folder, e.g. /Applications).
- MosaicatorCMD.zip: Command-line version of above program (save in e.g. /usr/local/bin and make it executeable with the command chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/mosaicator)
- Individual XMP panels for the "File Info" dialog
box. These text files should be placed into the following directory for Photoshop (and Bridge):
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/
Windows
- License: License.txt (by copying
the SOFTWARE onto your computer hard
drive, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement)
- cfitsio.dll:
NASA's CFITSIO library (save the file in your Photoshop directory e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2. Please make sure you have no other cfitsio.dll in your Photoshop directory).
- gdiplus.dll: GDI+, this file is only required if you are not using Windows XP. Save the file in your Photoshop directory e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2 (license for gdiplus.dll: gdipluslicense.txt).
- FitsLiberator.8bi: the main plug-in file (save the file in your File Format Plug-in directory, e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2 \Plug-ins\File Formats )
- Colour_composite.atn: A
Photoshop CS2/CS/7.0 "Action" for producing colour images
from a Photoshop file with three greyscale layers (save the
file in your Actions directory, e.g. c:\program files\Adobe\Photoshop
CS2\Presets\Photoshop Actions).
- Load the Action: In the Action Window (Window -> Action)
select Load Actions -> Colour_composite.atn (the small
arrow in the upper right corner)
- Open e.g. three (aligned) greyscale exposures of the same
object in Photoshop.
- Copy the three files into three layers of the same file.
- For each layer:
- Select the layer, for instance the Blue layer
- Play the "Blue Layer" part of the Action.
- Answer "Don't Merge", if that question comes.
- Adjust layers as appropriate
- FITS Concatenator.zip: This Adobe Photoshop script will combine the metadata from two or more individual exposures after the FITS Liberation process (unpack files to Photoshop scripts dir, e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop
CS2\Presets\Scripts).
- Mosaic.exe: Standalone program that will generate a single WFPC2 mosaic'ed file from one WFPC2 file containing four CCD images in individual planes (must be able to access cfitsio.dll, so either ensure cfitsio.dll is placed in C:\Window\system32 or that Mosaic.exe is in the same folder as cfitsio.dll).
- individual XMP panels for the "File Info" dialog box:
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