The concrete steps I proposed aren’t the fundamental for me. I think that the experienced users and developers can with authority establish them much better. In my modest proposal I forget to say that they are differences due to use of CCD o DSRL: the beginner must also combine the tree channels if he use CCD with the tree basic filters.
I agree completely that the steps are different according the instrumental, but for the beginner the essential or basic is only if they must combine or not the channels if they use CCD with filters, or DSLR. They don’t know more important differences produced by their instruments. The rest is : de-bayerize, (perhaps dark subtract) (in what order?), align, stack. And then the basics of process.
What is this basic process, I cannot say with security, and surely they are differences dues to great types of objects (moon, nebulae …), but the very basics of processing work are surely common of the most cases. Ever we must use the histogram, the curves, and something more. I only seek for a basic guide for the beginner, with a menu system that orientates them in the manifold processes in PI.
These menus aren’t obligatory, only a set of the most common processes ordered in the way they normally must be used. A menu for beginners … Surely they have their creativity and can alter it …
But I beg the advanced users forget they actual knowledge and experience, and remember when they also war beginners; I think we need the basic steps they made when they can’t distinguish and apply the manifold possibilities of PI. Only so the beginners will be able to master the deeps of PI. If we can begin, we will be able to end.
Finally, I think that is necessary both, tutorials and menus, because the menus are a part of the software that can be immediately used, or we can begin with them.
