# single . lane . road ! <| sep |> Even then he learns flamethrowerfire blastflyrockslide for bug , and extrasensorybulldoze for poison <| sep |> That ' s not the point the point uTheMerovingian is trying to make is to understand how images are operated at the lowest level and then he can decide upon such operations and work however he wants to . Even just as an excercise in understanding and then using some software which automates his work in whatever way his post is valuable and interesting . Case in point I ' m a python programmer , and most of what I see done here with PixInsight , I do from Python using OpenCV and NumPy , and I enjoy it a lot more that way plus , I ' m always certain what any operation I do really does to the data , and I can try different approaches as I see fit or want to experiment . If I were to use PI , I ' d feel lost in the UI however good it might be , I never used it , and I wouldn ' t be sure what the operations are doing on the data I could guess , but I wouldn ' t be sure .