I've been playing with this on an off for the last couple of weeks, going back to basics, DBE'ing gradients out before stretching, extracting artificial lum from RGB again and knitting that back into the original lum data, kinder colour calibration, then new stretches and contrast work. In and out of PI and PS. Tried to contain the stars better by more aggressive integration methods, but please put your hand over the bottom right corner still! I'm happier with this rendition though.
Comments welcome (if you haven't had enough already
), but no eggs or rotten tomatos please
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