Secondary Spike Quantity Control

Click the control or press Q to activate.

The Quantity control, part of the Secondary Diffraction Spikes control group, allows you to increase or decrease the number of stars (ranked by brightness) that are given Secondary Spikes. You can put Secondary Spikes on just a very few of the brightest stars or you can include more, dimmer ones.

Higher Quantity values put Secondary Spikes on more, dimmer stars.

When you change the Quantity control all of the Secondary Spikes brightnesses are ranged, with the stars whose brightnesses are just above the minimum brightness threshold being given Secondary Spikes that barely show.

When the Highlight Analysis configuration option is set to Automatic Analysis and the plug-in is started in the Advanced Controls mode with all the Quantity controls set to 0, the analysis of the image is deferred until such time as any of the advanced mode Quantity controls is moved off of 0.

If the Highlight Analysis configuration option is set to Manual Analysis, the Quantity controls operate in their normal manner and no analysis will be performed unless you click on the [ Analyze ] button.

Since Highlight Analysis can be time consuming, deferring analysis in this fashion facilitates quick usage of the plug-in in a purely manual mode, in which you use the Edit Tool to double-click to add your own effects.