Compose: Effortless, Signal Evolution-Tracked Complex Composite Processing

The Compose module is easy-to-use, but extremely flexible compositing and channel extraction tool. As opposed to all other software, the Compose module allows you to effortless process, LRGB, LLRGB, or narrowband composites like SHO, LSHO, Duo/Tri/Quadband, HaLRGB etc. composites, as if they were simple RGB datasets.

In traditional image processing software, composites with separate luminance, chrominance and/or narrowband filters, require lengthy processing workflows; luminance (detail), chrominance (color) and narrowband accents datastreams need (or should!) be processed separately and only combined at the end to produce the final image.

Through the Compose module, StarTools is able to process luminance, color and narrowband accent information separately, yet simultaneously.

This has important ramifications for your workflow and signal fidelity;

• Your workflow for a complex composite is now virtually the same as it is for a simple DSLR/OSC dataset; Modules like Wipe and Color automatically consult and manipulate the correct dataset(s) and enable additional functionality where needed.
• Because everything is done in one Tracking session, you get all the benefits from signal evolution tracking until the very end, without having to end your workflow for luminance and start a new one for chrominance or narrowband accents; all modules cross-reference luminance and color information as needed until the very end, yielding vastly cleaner results.
• The "Entropy" module can consult the chroma/color information to effortlessly manipulate luminance as you see fit, while Tracking monitors noise propagation.

Synthetic luminance dataset are created by simply specifying the total exposure times for each imported dataset. With a click of a button, synthetic luminance datasets can be added to an existing luminance dataset, or can be used as a (synthetic) luminance dataset in its own right.

Finally, the Compose module can be used to create bi-color composites, or to extract individual channels from color images.