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Originally Posted by Benjamin
Thanks Rick. I had a quick look at JP’s workflow and will have a crack at this soon. I should at least add the SII into the luminance. Removing stars seems like a bit of a challenge (I’ve been masking them out rather than removing them) but time permitting should be a fun to try in StarTools.
Q: In regards to controlling noise in an image where is this most crucial? Luminance? Everywhere?! Just how far to stretch things and balance that with the data you have. Smoother and less image or rougher and more image?
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Hi Ben,
Removing the stars is the key for me and the only part of the process I religiously do.
If you remove stars then you can do heavy noise reduction of the NB that you're using to build the colour component. I use different settings for each and hit the noisiest most heavily.
For the luminance I usually do a noise-weighted integration of the original (with stars) NB masters and then as little noise reduction as I can get away with.
Cheers,
Rick.