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Originally Posted by Rigel003
Was that Powerful Processing in Photoshop? I bought that in January and have worked through most of it. Excellent info, but I find the delivery style can be a little slow.
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Yes. I bought that, plus CCD Stack Tutorial. But what broought it all to life was his new end to end series where from RAW data through to CCD Stack into Photoshop, every single step is filmed. Some of them take 2 hours to watch but I picked up on so much. Problem with
Powerful Processing in Photoshop is that it gives you all the tools/techniques but no good idea on order/sequence of doing things.
You can find them here:
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/store/tutorials
I got them all but suggest best ones are 6914 and SH2-136.
The single biigest tip that has made a lot of difference for me is not to stretch Lum layer too much before adding color as unless its grey it wont get color when blended with Luminance. I was previously stetching my Lum layers to get a final image before adding color and all the stars and bright areas were never getting color as a result. Making sure background count also has a nice pedestal (ie not clipped) before bringing into photshop has also helped a lot.