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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Sweet shot. Nice deep and rich colours.
Greg.
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Cheers Greg, much appreciated!
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Originally Posted by astronobob
Thats a mighty fine image Andrew
I see you have a few targets in your collection now, just looking through them and have noticed that you a going forward in leaps, this image you have good handle on star coloring, really sets off any astro-image, also a nice balance of luminance and Nebulosity across the entire frame, well done
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Wow thanks Astronobob! That's very encouraging feedback, should have another image up on the forum tmrw, all going well.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Very nice, Andy!
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Cheers RickS, thanks for the feedback.
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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
Very nice, good colours.
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Thanks Cometcatcher, much appreciated!
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Originally Posted by pfitzgerald
Very nicely done Andy.
Cheers pfitzgerald, glad you liked it
If I might ask, what processing steps did you use in your work flow, and how did you avoid blowing out the core?
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Hi Paul, ok here goes...
>Initial pre-processing and stacking in Nebulosity.
>colour offset
>DDP (digital development)
>tighten star edges
>adaptive medium noise reduction
>save as 16bit tiff -
open Photoshop.
>duplicate layer - the following are BW steps
>NIK filter Silver FX Pro BW layer (this is important) use blue filter so red areas don't blow out, save this BW layer in Luminance blend mode.
>adjustment layers curves & levels to suit. Luminance blend mode
>image adjust Noise reduction or Noise Ninja plug in
>place original duplicate layer on top in Colour blend mode, then apply the following colour steps
>adjustment layers hue saturation and colour balance adjust to suit
>NIK colour FX pro layer, adjust tonal contrast to suit
>NIK colour FX colour contrast layer, adjust to suit
>NIK colour FX Glamour Glow layer (terrible name I know!) adjust gently
>all colour layers in colour blend mode
>Astronomy tools action, Make stars smaller
>Astronomy tools action, Enhance DSO and dimmer stars
>Astronomy tools action, lighten DSO, save as layer 50% fill
>PS smart sharpen
>save as JPEG, 'phew, open a beer!
Hope that helps... It's the BW luminance layers that give a great deal of control over the final outcome.