This is an image of NGC3532 I took back in 2015. I had a FB friend (George Hatfield) source the RAW files from me and he did a re-process with PI. The smaller pic here is his processing. The larger one at astrobin is mine.
I notice I seem to be quite heavy handed at processing a lot of my images compared to some. I like to see images ooze noise before I stop! I'd also like to know to get stars that small in CS5 without worms lol!
That's really nice, Kevin! Your version brought out more of the nebulosity in the area, but I do like the subtlety of your friend's. I think a mix of both would be about perfect.
Thanks Lee and Colin. PI does make for a nice look to astro pics but I really don't want to learn new software all over again. I'm stuck in my ways. (Must be getting old)
BTW, PI is not that difficult to learn to successfully process data. I personally have found PI much easier to familiarise myself with than PS, which I found quite beyond my capacity to learn to operate...
