M20 Triffid reprocessed. turned out to be my best M20.

[EzyStyles]

Trying to get the blue surrounding the red/pink in the triffid . Here's a reprocessed version i did. since it is pouring down rain in melb, might just reprocess some of my old pics.


cheers.

[iceman]

Very nice image again Eric, but you really need to work on the method you use to create a websize image - there's a LOT of compression artifacts in that image, which shouldn't really be there given the size.

[Ric]

Great image Eric,
it's so detailed it just about jumps out of the screen at me

cheers

[janoskiss]

The Gimp does a good job of jpeg compressing images, gives you a lot of control to fine tune the compression parameters and you can preview the results.

[tornado33]

Fantastic shot Eric, nice contrast between the blue reflection and red emission nebula.
Scott

[EzyStyles]

working on it boss. :D ill try the gimp as steve suggested. thanks. the way i normally do it is save full scale image in photoshop after processing then convert to 8bit. save that.
open windows paint and resize it in there eg: 50% . then add my info to the pic and save that as tif. then save again in paint as jpg. what i should have done is resize it in photoshop then add details in paint and save as .jpg using photoshop again.

[EzyStyles]

cheers ric and scott. thanks for your reply. I was concentrating more on the blue region than the red . trying to enchance and brighten it up.

[iceman]

Why can't you add the text and other details in photoshop? Just add them as new layers and save the PSD file for later reference, resize the image to 800px wide (or so), and then do a "save to web". You can then select the jpeg compression quality until you see it drop to under 150k.

[Garyh]

Hi Eric, you have brought out the blue very nicely!!! yet kept the background nicely balanced....Well done...:thumbsup:
I hate coma too!!
Cheers Gary

[andrew]

Lovely pic mate, but how are you doing a 4 minute exposure with a Canon? I thought all Canon's max. exposure time was 30 seconds:shrug:

[Striker]

Andrew,

You set it to Bulb mode and you can take exposurs as long as you want.

This can be done with a small bit of hardware such as canon timer release for about $25 or done with software combinned with some adapters and your off and running.

Or simply by holding your exposure button down in bulb mode but this would be an awful way to image

[andrew]

I see, thanks for explaining it :) I'm still learning:eyepop:

[janoskiss]

No need to bother with the Gimp if you already have Photoshop. Just stay away from Paint. That's the cause of the problem! Like most other things from that company :whistle:, it's a junk piece of software.

[EzyStyles]

cheers guys thanks. i'll try steve. it just that paint is so easy to use :P

[RB]

Yes give it a go with PS.
Stunning colours there Eric, well done.