[Rex]

Originally Posted by rmuhlack

Top image there Rex. Got to be happy with that!

Thanks Richard. I found this to be the hardest image I have ever processed.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Very nice Rex!

Steve

Thanks Steve, glad you like it.

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Beautiful Rex, well done

How did you tame all the stars?

Thanks Dunk. I really struggled to be honest. I used several different range masks at different stages and hit the stars with Morphological Transform to reduce them. It was quite hard to ensure the nebula was adequately masked so it wasn't affected by the process. I ended up having to use pixelmath to combine a star mask, and a range mask, so that the nebula was protected but the stars weren't. I just kept trying different ways of doing it until I found one that worked. Gave me a huge headache, but I learnt a lot. Sorry to ramble but I wanted to explain without being vague. Thanks again for the kind words.