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Originally Posted by LightningNZ
I opened it in Photoshop, changed the mode to Lab, Gaussian blurred the colour channels to reduce colour noise and exported the luminance channel to another greyscale image. I duplicated the luminance layer and did a High Pass filter on it and then Soft Light combined it with the original. I then adjusted the level to bright the white-end up to maximum and dropped it back into the luminance channel of the Lab image. Turned it all back into RGB and boosted the colour saturation 25% and cropped it a bit then saved it to disk.
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Hi Cam,
Thanks for the advice - you've improved the image out of sight to mine. I did no processing of the moon shot at all.
I should add that I've got no idea what all that processing lingo means - but I suppose you just use trial and error (at least when starting out) until the image looks better, and with time and experience, you recognise in advance what processing is required?
Also, do most astrophotos need processing in another programme besides DSS?
I've only got the software that came with the camera, and GIMP (which sounds very user-unfriendly from what's said here).
Hope to be able to speak your language some time in the future.
Luke