I am beyond rage and frustration, and teetering on the edge of insanity.
I have been trying for a year to learn how to combine long and short
exposures of objects like M42 that have a great dynamic range.
I have read or viewed every tutorial I could find, bought books such as Photoshop Astronomy, and tried to utilise the video tutorials CD that comes with it,
but am not even ONE step further than I was a year ago. I just can't get my head around the dozens or scores of steps involved. I don't even know how to DO some of them. I could almost cry when I see newbies arrive on the scene, and in no time at all they are happily layering and masking, and deconvoluting, and binning and dithering etc, etc, etc.
It is doubly frustrating because I have been viewing for over 60 yrs, and imaging for about 50. Digital has got me by the short and curlies; just can't get my head around it. I'm not looking for suggestions on how
to combine images [unless there is a vastly more straightforward way
than PS offers], I just needed to let out my emotions.
Thanks for reading, if you bothered to read this far.
raymo
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