[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Looks really nice Justin. I didn't even know there was nebula in that spot.

Thanks Kevin!

This one is not imaged often, easier from a dark site.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Justin. You caught the subtle colours of that region quite well.

Greg.

Thanks Greg!

Tried not to vegas this one.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Very nice result, Justin

Thanks Laurie!

Still got your imaging gear?

Originally Posted by LewisM

LUVERLY, just luverly

Thanks Lewis!

Originally Posted by IanP

Justin, nice material and very well processed.

Do you have any special tricks up your sleeve when you process frames taken @ high Iso(800+) and exposure time of several minutes as far as the colours of stars are concerned?

Thanks Ian!

I convert my raws to tiff, for me it seems better for holding colours through the whole image.
Apart from that I use the magic wand a lot in Photo Shop for stars.

I click on a star with the wand the select similar.
This should select most stars in the field.
If the wand selects area's that you don't want, hold down the alt key and click on the area you want to deselect.
Then go to select - modify - expand and in crease from 3 to 5 pixels.
Now you can increase saturation on the stars without boosting the rest of the region.
I do this several times and also use the minimum - noise and Gaussian blur at this stage to help clean up and reduce star size.

Hope I'm not telling you how to suck eggs!

Originally Posted by RickS

Looks great, Justin!

Thanks Rick!

Originally Posted by Star Catcher

Nicely processed Justin, one to try in future.
Ted

Thanks Ted!

Look forward to your image.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

very nice - as usual Justin!

Thanks Rusty!

Cheers,

Justin.