... Osservatorio Astronomico, Bologna, Italy . ... Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universit? di Bologna, Bologna, Italy . Stellar photometry of simulated HST uncorrected and corrected images of a crowded star cluster has been carried out before and after deconvolution (with RMG, R-L, MEM, etc.) to optimize the reduction procedures and compare the degree of completeness and photometric accuracy actually achievable in the various cases. ... Surface Brightness Profiles . ...