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Originally Posted by bigjoe
Very nice image of this fabulous cluster David, gets a bit lost in all the other stars here though..that whenever I show it visually in a large Reflector and Delos ..everyone says WOW !
Keep up your good work too.
bigjoe.
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Thanks for Looking Joe. I have viewed this as well and you are dead right, in a big scope it really pops.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Nice work, David!
The image doesn't appear to have an embedded ICC colour profile, so it's difficult to tell exactly what it should look like. You might want to check your colour management settings.
Assuming it should be sRGB, I think you can make some small improvements pretty easily. I'd clip the blue and the green a little to warm it up (looks like you have a slight blue/green colour cast). Another thing to try is to use the ColorMask script to make a red mask, blur it with a little Convolution, apply the mask to the image and lift the red a bit with CurvesTransformation. That will make the red Ha areas pop a little more.
I did give this a go so if you're interested I can post a small before/after shot...
Cheers,
Rick.
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Originally Posted by atalas
Excellent cluster David
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Originally Posted by Amaranthus
Very nice David, Star background is rich.
I tried this one quite a while back, with a similar (albeit flipped) framing and an emphasis on the Ha nebulosity: https://www.astrobin.com/170102/
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Originally Posted by multiweb
That's a really nice field David. I feel the stars are a little muted for my taste but the colors are spot on.
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Risk/Louie and Marc
Gents, timing is awesome. When Louie posted his comments, I dived into his site as he has some really good Photoshop tutorials on this sort of image which I had forgotten about. The concepts are the same as in PI so I have an updated version below in which I also used Ricks colour mask to lift the Red (Thanks Rick..so many things learnt and so many tricks forgotten).
Thank for asking Rick, would be good to see where you landed and yes, SRGB.
Not sure whats happening with the colour profile though so I have added a screen shot showing the settings used when saving to Jpeg.
Thanks for the great feedback.
Barry, liked your image, as you say, same FOV!