Images Plus is FREE!

[astroman133]

My friend, Mike Unsold, is the author of ImagesPlus. He recently decided to stop enhancements and updates to ImagesPlus and offer the software at no cost.

I doubt that Mike plans any new updates, so the software is available on an as-is basis.

If you are looking for image processing software, you should check it out at the Images Plus web site.

[admin]

Well, not sure how I feel about this.

On one hand I think it is awesome for the community that Mike is offering it for free

On the other hand I find it sad that another major contributor to the astro-community software has run his course

In any case, two thumbs up for Mike.

[s3igell]

Yes, it is sad to see any shrinkage in an already small field.  While I rarely used ImagesPlus (I have my hands full climbing the PixInsight Learning Curve), I always appreciated that it was there as a viable alternative.

Perhaps at some time in the near future, Mike Unsold will consider releasing ImagesPlus as OpenSource.  A similar transition occurred with Deep Sky Stacker last year, and DSS is enjoying a happy and healthy progression of support and feature releases.  Same thing happened to PHD2 a few years prior - to Great Success.

 

[astrohound24]

I need to get started with imaging processing. Would this be a good place for me to go? I am using BYEOS for capture and acquisition but need a good processing software. 

[astrohound24]

By the way I am using a modified 450D and Skytracker Pro. Mainly using a 50mm Canon lens, old Nikkor F4 200mm, and recently acquired Canon F2L 135. 

[astroman133]

Images Plus is free, so the price is right. However, it has a pretty steep learning curve and it is unlikely to change as the author has "retired". Fortunately the web site has lots of tutorials to help. The author is a friend and I used to use it, but I switched away some time ago to use CCDStack and Photoshop. PixInsight is also a popular alternative so you can get lots of support. There are some regional workshops and online tutorials for sale.