M42 and NGC 1977 HDR & New Years Resolution

[RichardJ]

I've been playing around with images taken with my unmodded Canon 450D DSLR and combining them with HDR software. Here is where I have got to so far.

My New Years resolutions include learning more about Photoshop!

I'd be very interested in the views of the other imagers as to what noise reduction software they use.
Thanks.

RichardJ :)

[Bassnut]

Thats striking Richard, love the deep colours. Bit different from your usual. Startools handles noise differently from other software by automatically reducing noise based on tracking previous stretch processing. Even if you just use it for that its easy and worth it, beats tedious PS masking.

[multiweb]

Very neat pic Richard. :thumbsup:

In PS I use a plugin called noiseware professional from imagenomic.
If you deal with raw linear data startools is the way to go.

[alpal]

Hi Richard,
nice pic.

See here for Noise Reduction Masks for Photoshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mj2Ia-tC0

Louie has a whole set of videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ5b6pFHBGe66vsuSaXb-0A

I also use Fitswork4.
http://www.fitswork.de/software/softw_en.php

Also NASA FITS Liberator for stretching the FITS stacks:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/download_v301/


cheers
Allan

[RickS]

An interesting pic, Richard.

My vote would be for PixInsight if you have a mathematical, computing or scientific bent. If not, try something else :lol:

Cheers,
Rick.

[RichardJ]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies and suggestions. Much appreciated.
I've been looking at Neat image and Photo Ninja but will also have a look at the others.

regards,

Richard.