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Yes, I have watched Harrys tutorials many times. They are great. Unfortunately with Pixinsight I have found that processes often only apply to a specific type of image. I follow the instructions with my images and sometimes they go okay and other times you get absolute garbage out even with spending significant time tweaking settings. For example his DBE example is with a colour image, you can see the gradients to place the marks because of the colour, on a black and white image I am not sure if I am looking at nebulosity or light pollution when I am marking, it all just looks like cloud.
Colour seems to be my main problem with Pixinsight. I am not even getting close most of the time. I spent 4 hours today on the Swan nebula following various tutorials and have given up in the end, can't get even close to reasonable colours. My lum image looks okay I think but all goes to hell when I try to do anything with the RGB channels.
The colour calibration tool seems to do nothing for me. In Harrys tute he clicks on a nice white galaxy to use as a reference, that is great but what if there is nothing obviously white in the image? How do you calibrate with the tool in the absence of a white reference?
Overall I find Pixinsight probably the most frustrating piece of software I have used. Just when you think you have learned something and found something that worked the next image it doesn't work and you are back to square one.
It not only has a steep learning curve but also a very long one. Normally you pick up speed with software as you continue to use it but I find it seems to be continuous heavy going.
When it works it can work well and is probably the most powerful software around but the wins don't see to come often enough for the time invested. I am wondering if I should be looking at some software that is easier to use and might produce better output for time invested?
Anyway end my sob story.
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