Index: branches/eam_branches/20090715/ippconfig/recipes/psphot.config
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--- branches/eam_branches/20090715/ippconfig/recipes/psphot.config	(revision 25621)
+++ branches/eam_branches/20090715/ippconfig/recipes/psphot.config	(revision 25622)
@@ -23,4 +23,8 @@
 BACKGROUND.YBIN                     S32   128             # size of background superpixels
 IMSTATS_NPIX                        S32   10000           # number of pixels to use for sky estimate boxes:
+
+# soften the errors for bright pixels:
+SOFTEN.VARIANCE                     BOOL  FALSE
+SOFTEN.VARIANCE.FRACTION            F32   0.0
 
 SKY_BIAS                            F32   0.0             # offset applied to measured sky (FOR TESTING)
@@ -202,5 +206,6 @@
 
 IGNORE_GROWTH                       BOOL  FALSE
-CONSTANT_PHOTOMETRIC_WEIGHTS        BOOL  TRUE 		  # Should the photometric code [currently only ensemblePSF] refuse to weight each pixel by it's significance?
+# CONSTANT_PHOTOMETRIC_WEIGHTS        BOOL  TRUE 		  # Should the photometric code [currently only ensemblePSF] refuse to weight each pixel by it's significance?
+CONSTANT_PHOTOMETRIC_WEIGHTS        BOOL  FALSE 		  # Should the photometric code [currently only ensemblePSF] refuse to weight each pixel by it's significance?
 INTERPOLATE_AP                      BOOL  TRUE