See it. Finish it.
Go shoot again.
AI photo critique · Photoshop scripts · Workshops.
Every step of your photography workflow, in one place.
Trade tedious retouching
for time behind the camera.
Automatically removes airplane trails left in star-trail stacks, using only the original image's own pixels.
Hand the repetitive cleanup to your PC, and get back to shooting.
- No generative AI
- No image upload — nothing leaves your PC
- Processed entirely inside Photoshop
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What sets it apart
Built from personal frustration
These tools weren't built by imagining what users might need. They were built to automate the repetitive work Murata did every night in the field. Only what was genuinely necessary made it in.
No generative AI. No cloud upload.
Removal is done by replacing original pixels — no AI generation, no image alteration, no data sent to the cloud. Everything runs inside your own Photoshop installation.
20 years of field experience in the defaults
1x.com Awarded ×7, writing for photography magazines, sample images and product reviews for PENTAX / RICOH, and CP+ talks. The processing judgments Murata refined over two decades in the field are baked into the script parameters. These aren't presets — they have reasons.
The tools are just the beginning
Workshops go beyond "how to use it" — they cover the why behind every processing decision. Using the tools while learning the thinking raises the level of your own judgment.
Photographer Ichiro Murata
Astrophotographer based in Kamakura, Japan, working mainly in the Northern Japan Alps — shooting in the field for over 20 years.
1x.com Awarded ×7, 6 books incl. the solo photobook “Tsubakuro”, PENTAX / RICOH sample images, CP+ speaker.
Sidekick was born from the exhausting repetitive work Murata did every night after returning from a shoot.
