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Old 22-07-2015, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by tel.lekatsas View Post
Congrats on the APOD mate. Fantastic image!
Thanks Tel!

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Congrats on APOD as everyone has said you must be popping the champagne. I finally got a decent set of images of this comet tonight cant seem to get the blue in the tail any tips from the comet Jedi master?
Thanks Luis! If you stack in DSS like a lot of us do, then you need to put the colour back in that DSS has sucked out. I use a lot of curve stretches in Photoshop and that sucks out even more colour. To compensate I wind up the vibrance and saturation sliders until noise becomes a problem and then back off a bit (in image / adjustments / vibrance). How much to put back in is subjective. I like fairly strong colour.

Another way is noiseless colour for photoshop as described in the video, or use a combination of both. Be careful of colour gradients when doing this.
I often flat field and balance the background colour with the "image / apply image" technique after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fg-xSVz6vg
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