Running Chicken, Starless.

[Bassnut]

Done proper, no friggen Stars. (http://fredsastro.smugmug.com/Photography/Astrophotography-1/i-VC2KLNR/A). (click for large).

This is the way it should be, my kind of image :D. By popular demand, starless, (well, one demand, thanks Brett).

A good 2 billion stars were hand nuked in PS, thats a lot of clicking.

Cheers Fred

[Rod771]

I love the smell of Photoshop in the morning! :P

Looks good Fred:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Starless has its appeal.

Doesn't Star Tools or Pixinsight make star removal easy with some tool?

Greg.

[Bassnut]

Dont know about Pixinsight, but Startools is easier than PS colour select. You can click on a missed star or around a selected star to increase the selection just on that star, and if you cock up, its reversable, just on that star. Ive spent huge wasted hrs fighting PS with colour select, never again.

This image was a bit different, manual nukeing on the final version worked best (without going back to previous processing steps for auto nukeing), and its easier for 3 can processing (3CP).

[Octane]

One day, when I grow up and have my own home, I will buy a print of these masterpieces from you.

H

[strongmanmike]

2001 a Space Odyssey produced by F.Vanderhaven:

"...oh my God...it's not full of stars"

Nice painting Fred :)

Mike

[gregbradley]

This image was a bit different, manual nukeing on the final version worked best (without going back to previous processing steps for auto nukeing), and its easier for 3 can processing (3CP).[/QUOTE]

What's 3CP?

Greg.

[bert]

Now it's a proper image!

[Octane]

Greg,

3CP will be his Guinness intake while processing.

H

[gregbradley]

Oh I see, thanks H!

Greg.

[prokyon]

Looks good, like a big detonation.

[bloodhound31]

Fred, this is magnificent mate! I just showed my wife and she agrees. 2 million stars? Hard slog mate. Are you using the clone tool or the spot healing tool?

Baz.

[rcheshire]

Stars or no stars, it's stunning.

[multiweb]

Really like that one. Stars are overrated.

[Regulus]

That's very nice Fred. I set it as my desktop background so I can stare at it for a while.
Thx for sharing the results.
Trevor

[TechnoBill]

Aah come on Fred,
Tell the truth, that's not a photo at all is it... you have taken up painting with water colours haven't you and this is just a cruel trick :rofl:

Truly majestic (couldn't think of another awesome word at the time)
Love it.

TechnoBill

[Bassnut]

Thanks Guys. Baz, thats 2 billion stars, but with 3CP its a snitch either way. Just the heal tool, not spot, more work, but worked better in this case. Thats the beauty of megadata, it allows a mind switch from noise-aware processing to pure random art painting (if inclined of course).

[Harel_Boren]

A very beautiful rendition - color, detail and natural smoothness are all great. Cheers, and thanks for sharing,
Harel

[cosmophoton]

Excellent picture!

[alan meehan]

Very good Fred but I would like to see one with stars as well :stargaze:
AL

[dvj]

Pure art with a little bit of science too. As one how loves starless images, this is a fine piece of work. And a lot of work too.