Goodbye CloneStamp, Hello Blemish Blaster! Content Aware Healing Tool in PixInsight

[@AstroCapture325]

In so short a time your suite of tools has practically revolutionized PixInsight workflows. Thank you for developing these powerful scripts!

[@RigoFromSpain]

Get managed to get it working, man what a magnificent script !! well done again Frank and BYE BYE CLONE STAMP

[@richardcullip8468]

Wow. You've done it again. What a great collection of scripts you have created. As a thanks, I've joined your channel.

[@setiv2]

Welcome!!

[@davechaton6771]

I am convinced you are a freaking genius.!!!! I now use basically only Russ' tools and your scripts.. Saves me so much time and great results. You deserve support...Joining channe

[@setiv2]

Thanks a ton!

[@davechaton6771]

@@setiv2 just tried to use it and it does not show up in the seti tool box. Grabed the repository from your website and reinstalled it in repositories and still no Blemish Blaste......Any idea why?

[@dbkokinda]

@@davechaton6771 Make sure you add the repository, check for updates and restart PI.

[@rickbria8420]

Wow, newbies to PixInsight have a huge advantage over us oldies, thanks to guys like you. Your Scripps have completely changed,rearranged and simplified my workflow. Thanks!

[@steveweintraub1113]

WOW! It worked like a charm removing a large dust donut. THANK YOU for making our hobby much easier. You're amazing,

[@ricardorathge1]

Another great tool, Thanks for taking the time to help us. Thanks Again.

[@simontregear2365]

Fantastic. I've found CloneStamp very frustrating and time consuming to get a workable result. I'm thrilled to see such an elegant script integrated into PI. Thank you.

[@nikaxstrophotography]

Your tool suite has become the go to in conjunction with the Xterminator tools Fabulous work mate

[@kevinboucherobservatoryast3859]

That's a game changer Frank and long overdue you did an awesome job with this great job thank you very much!

[@w8bya]

You're a machine Frank ! What an awesome addition to an already incredible suite. TU !

[@desmcmorrow2978]

OMG this is amazing - so easy to use! One of the best for sure. Many thanks. Cheers, Des

[@adityasoni6185]

This man is unstoppable. Great work

[@garillan]

Congratulations. You do a great job and we are very happy that you contribute all your achievements with the community. Of course, my workflow is already 80 percent done with your scripts. Thanks a lot

[@AstroJWA]

This is amazing. You keep coming up with tools to help us in our passion. Thank you!

[@rond4152]

Thanks so much for your hard work on all the different scripts! You have made PixInsight processing super easy for me!!!

[@bezain7663]

Another incredible script from you! The clone stamp tool is ancient and deserved a good refresh. I tested it, and it works very well; however, I noticed that it produces a darker circular area instead of the defect. When we replace the stars, this usually poses no problem, unless they have been greatly reduced, which can produce a slight "dark ringing" effect. A possible solution might be to have the opportunity to add an "offset" to this central circle. Once again, congratulations on all your hard work!

[@setiv2]

There is, adjust the opacity down. That will allow more original brightness to bleed back in

[@haiderbhogadia4829]

I am in absolute awe with this script. Excellent many thanks Frank !

[@josephluciani5531]

Frank, how do you do it!? Your contributions to this hobby are not only amazing, they are game changers. I repeat, how in the world do you keep coming up with these incredible scripts?!

[@setiv2]

By listening to the community and what we all need! Should come in handy on your heart of hearts!

[@MastersofPixInsight]

Really nice work on this one, Franklin; took a bit of practice but it works very well! Best, Warren A. Keller

[@setiv2]

Thanks guys! Keep up the good work on your end too!

[@huntsfishingjournal9519]

Love it! Thanks for the continued work and putting out these cool and helpful scripts.

[@jonathanpearceff]

Finally a replacement for clone stamp. Many thanks!!!!!!!

[@richardchurch4137]

Genius !! Processing is becoming much more of a pleasure with your tools ! Could never get clone stamp to work properly at my intermediate level ! ..keep up the great work & the fact they are free tools this day and age is amazing 👍

[@PeterRowe-k1o]

This is very useful for seamlessly, and quickly, removing image aberrations. Great work and thank you.

[@carlh2514]

Yet again incredible. You are now allowed to go on holiday!!

[@setiv2]

Haha, well i am leaving on a work trip so I will not be putting out game changing scripts for a couple weeks :)

[@AstroIsland]

@@setiv2how do you get the time to work and perfect these scripts? I’m assuming you’re in the IT industry?

[@setiv2]

@@AstroIsland no i am not. Industrial electric motor and generator service work. Used to be GE, but ABB bought us.

[@AstroIsland]

Halo Begone and now Blemish Blaster. The two tools that work hand in hand based in what we discussed about Alnitak. I have now officially taken down Superman and out you up as my list of heroes 😆 Thanks a million bro. 🙏

[@setiv2]

:D

[@KakuSarma]

I am not very much comfortable using Clone Stamp Tool. Now this is the magic you have gifted us and made our works way easier. Thanks a lot for always helping us.

[@cmdrjedirogue5098]

Frank, another amazing script for us to use. Many thanks for your hard work to make our lives much easier.

[@The13rannon]

I was gunna ask you to make this! You rock!

[@setiv2]

You wouldnt have been the first. Been in the works for a bit now :)

[@cymrych79]

Ohhhh, been waiting for something like this!! Only use CloneStamp when masking out super bright stars which occasionally have some internal reflection issues. But it's clunky. This looks so much easier!

[@ScottDavies]

WOW this is masterful work 😊👏👏👏 Thank you once again!

[@giohelp]

I think you are a genius! Thank you very much.

[@DeveshPande]

This is fantastic. Thank you, Frank!

[@MrBebopbob]

This could be really helpful for my hyperstar NB images. Thanks for all the hard work.

[@davidbee8648]

Best news ever!! Thanks for yet another great tool.

[@miketronix]

You are better than NASA man! Many thanks for the video

[@setiv2]

Haha

[@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy]

Thanks! Super Helpful and Useful.

[@setiv2]

Thank you so much!!

[@Tony-Elliott]

Another excellent script thank you for the work you put into this

[@BruceMallett]

Wonderful, I am so looking forward to no more clone stamp!

[@manyworldsastro]

I've been spending the last couple months building my own roll-off observatory, and am extremely excited to hop back in to imaging. The last couple months I've watched script after script being released that will replace or enhance steps in my previous workflow.

[@setiv2]

Roll off observatory sounds so cool! Never miss a clear night with that!

[@yervantparnagian5999]

Oh man. You are rocking it Frank. I hate that Clonestamp tool. This is awesome.

[@sebastianmarchi971]

Amazing!! thanks a lot for this script

[@terrizittritsch745]

Fabulous work, thank you!

[@aj-astrophoto]

Wow, amazing tool. Thanks!

[@darkrangersinc]

Well done I’ve switched to doing this in Photoshop with the AI Remove tool but nice to have the option to do it quickly in PI!

[@fabienpnl2959]

Super travail, merci à toi !!!

[@LogansAstro]

Something that I think people have been waiting for in PI for a long time as clone stamp really is awful. Your script is more a kin to what can be done in photoshop so having this in PI means not having to create tif files and moving into photoshop to use the healing tools. Also we can use your script in the linear state which is excellent. Fantastic job.

[@janelubenskyi1177]

I tried it and it is great…very easy to use…❤

[@jacquesjolivet5685]

Clone stamp is soooo clunky. WOW. Thanks again.

[@parkofile1173]

Thank you so very much!

[@lenjones2268]

I am dumbstruck!!!!, simply unbelievable

[@carlos.o.n]

Muchas gracias ☺️🤝

[@SkyShedPODTeam]

Fantastic as as always!

[@SkyShedPODTeam]

Just used it. Fantastic! Thx! CS!

[@stephen2615]

Thanks!

[@stephen2615]

No more Destiny star ships...

[@setiv2]

Thanks so much!

[@mortenlerager4846]

What can I say, other than it's amazing. For some short time ago, i wrote here on your channel. Chould we please have a tool like Affinity Photo Inpaint. And here we go. Ok not a AI tool but it's seems perfect. Thank you so much, Frank.

[@janeclark1881]

Nice. Can't wait for an excuse to try it!

[@astroattorney]

OhEmGee Amazing! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@sevenskiesastro]

This is a fantastic script thank you.

[@ThePope_francis]

Cool stuff, keep it up!

[@scottbadger4107]

Just tried it and will be using it a lot in the future! Thanks! My only request is that the preview autoSTF not be quite as 'smooth'. It makes some of what I was trying to correct, and the results of the correction, more difficult to see.

[@setiv2]

I cant change much on that STF issue. The stretch needs to be fully reversable and if it is too hard it will clip your data which I cant imagine you want to do. I would say, and hear me out, dont remove your artifacts now until after you stretch. With clone stamp that was a bad idea but not anymore!

[@scottbadger4107]

@@setiv2 Thanks for the reply, and I'll try that.

[@delmarvawx]

This reminds me of the spot healing tool in photoshop. Game changer

[@ABCMO-bl5pi]

You beat me to it. I was going to write “Photoshop meets PixInsight.”

[@VisionCommunications]

Brilliant! Thanks

[@bradleylew6968]

That is what I did from the website. I have added other repositories before

[@setiv2]

Please email me [e-mail]

[@ajaymandke]

Wow. This is great. I wonder if this can be used for removing the embossed/3D looking dust donuts due to improper flats or say you have weird stars due to ice crystals form only on one night on a multi night project.

[@setiv2]

It will remove those dust donuts, but normally those are so large I would be worried you would be removing actual data. Worth giving it a go though!

[@CosmicTweaks]

Hi Franklin, seems like you created an excellent tool again. Is it planed to be released as a standalone script or integrated into your astro suite?

[@setiv2]

I was not planning on making this one stand alone for the sole reason if you are processing outside of PI you already have access to healing tools in gimp, affinity, photoshop, etc. I made that because PI didnt have really anything

[@julianmatthews3262]

Thanks again for another FAB script, I have struggled with clone stamp to get it to work . Another issue I get is when I use my Quadband or Tri filters and end up with large star halos on the bright stars. I have tried to remove them with the clone stamp but never achieve a good result. Would this tool aid with these sorts of corrections or are you looking to build another script in the future to resolve this issue? PLEASE!! 🙂

[@setiv2]

Did you try my Halo-B-Gon to remove those unwanted halos?

[@julianmatthews3262]

​@@setiv2 No I was not aware of that script. I will have a play with it. Would this script remove larger halos rather than those smaller halos around stars? Thanks

[@Laurent_BARTHELEMY]

Génial ❤

[@swnovanovice]

Thank you for this tool - I have used Clone Stamp however, for all the reasons stated in both PI docs and other non-PI articles, I would prefer a better tool to remove blemishes - large an small. My question/comment is around how this script could ease the battle with sat track removal. Like many, I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get rid of these pesky transgressionary lines which StarLink orbiting tech (among others) has perpetrated upon imagers… and others. Can this tool be effective in removing the sat tracks in a single attempt or will on have to select the blemish area in circles (all along the track)? Again, thanks for this super useful tool, Franklin…. and CS!

[@setiv2]

There is no way for this currently to remove a long line defect like a satellite trail without making a ton of small overlapping circles. Maybe a future version to remove stuff like that

[@swnovanovice]

@@setiv2 appreciate all your efforts to make life in the PI world a tad less complex; I’ll wait for the”future version”, Franklin, and keep the more difficult removal process until then. Thank you again for the tools already bestowed… cheers, b

[@jacquesbeauropert]

Fantastic .

[@cccard2491]

Awesome!!

[@Orionshield1948]

Well I am trying to utilizie the script on a problem master flat but the AutoSTF will not let me see what I can see using the regular PI STF tool.

[@setiv2]

You are trying to remove a blemish from your flat? I have to ask why, doesnt that blemish need to be calibrated om your associated light frame? Also a flat should be bright enough not to have to use STF. What is the median value of the flat?

[@Orionshield1948]

@@setiv2 Not really, it is actually imprinting something that does not exist into the lights. In that regard I wish the tool would actually allow a manual STF if needed which probably is not often.

[@setiv2]

@@Orionshield1948 i suppose a "hard stretch" option for those cases

[@bradleylew6968]

I am using the latest pixinsight, but if you place the url in browser, page errors or doesn’t exist, am I missing something?

[@setiv2]

Yes, you need to go to my website and copy the repository url, you cant use my website url

[@MikeTettenborn]

Magic!

[@georgalbrecht8029]

Hi Franklin. PI does not want to open your newest script Blemish Blaster. I saw it being downloaded into the script folder yesterday and today when I wanted to test it out, first it was not in the folder anymore and secondly after finding it under the "Check Script Syntax" and trying to run it, PI returns an error and warning: run --execute-mode=auto -c "C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlemishBlaster.js" Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlemishBlaster.js *** Error: File I/O Error: Unable to open file: Win32 error (225): Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a : C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlemishBlaster.js virus or potentially unwanted software. After that, the fie BlemishBlaster.js is gone from that folder... I also doublechecked the "Installed Updates" folder and there it shows it was downloaded. When trying to retrieve a copy from your website, the download stops immediately saying "Virus detected"

[@setiv2]

Not sure why your windows defender doesnt like it! I can send you the code as a .txt and you could just changw the extension to .js if you want. Just email me [e-mail]

[@niccologuidi9691]

I enter the link you mention but I can't find the link to copy into pixinsight

[@setiv2]

My repository link is at the top of my oixinsight scripts pagr on my website www.setiastro.com/pjsr-scripts

[@setiv2]

You can update PixInsight via Resources -> Manage Repositories and add the following URL: raw.githubusercontent.com/setiastro/pixinsight-updates/main/

[@rocketcityastro]

Nice!! thanks for making this clone stamp was the worst tool in pixinsight.

[@jesuschrist2284]

You're making it very hard for me to resist buying pixinsight

[@setiv2]

Try the free trial and give it all a go! When I did I couldnt resist. Just the quality of the master stack crushed the free stuff I was using

[@jesuschrist2284]

@@setiv2 that almost word for word what my crack dealer said

[@bradleylew6968]

Awesome script, when I add the URL to the manage repositories, I get an error, otherwise, have to install it manually.

[@setiv2]

What error are you getting? You need build 1605 or higher to use the repository.

[@davidemancini7853]

Can this work on strong halo around stars?

[@setiv2]

If other methods arent working then yes. I do have a stand alone Halo-B-Gon script that focuses soley on halos.

[@davidemancini7853]

@@setiv2 oh thx, I didn’t know, in the pixinsight repository ?

[@AmatureAstronomer]

Interesting.

[@moschop72]

Pew pew pew!

[@setiv2]

:D

[@stevewest7839]

Brilliant, thanks sooooo much