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Old 20-05-2015, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jase View Post
Try these mods and see what you think.
In PS curves;
Select the red channel, enter 98 for output and 124 for input
Select the green channel, enter 137 for output and 117 for input
Select the blue channel, enter 131 for output and 123 for input

You'll find the surrounding golden star field will pop and the reflection nebulosity will start to shine through. You may not liked it. it does tone down the Ha blend a little.

Good to hear you've making use of the history brush. Its pretty cool that you can paint with adjusted time. Helps to go over the highlights of images to bring out more features as you mention. You can do so much more though. Try painting with soft light and see what happens around dark dust lanes. They get quite colourful as the slowly dim. Powerful tool indeed.
Should those numbers be the other way round? I tried those and it made the image almost all green. I'll try the other way round to see if it makes a difference. Thanks for the tip about soft light mode.

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Originally Posted by Stevec35 View Post
Yep - I reckon that thing was worth the money Greg. My only criticism is that the bright areas seem a bit too blown out but it's a fine image.

Cheers

Steve
Thanks Steve. I think so too that its worth the money. I did a little highlight taming on the bright spots.

I should add the NGC6164 shock wave has some TEC180 data added which had O111 in it hence the blue shock wave that does not show up as much in Ha.

Greg.
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