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Hi George. The main thing that I would recommend would be to not base a selection decision on the colour of the final image given the control over these parameters from both pieces of software. PI as well as PS have a lot of control over colour saturation. I would argue though that the colour management tools in PI are more suited to astro images with the two main tools being the ColorSaturation process and the colour saturation functionality within the Curves process.
As I have finally made the journey and, as some have said, 'gotten alone with myself and PI' for several months and having made the switch, my advice is that PI has many benefits from the astro imaging perspective. Having said that there are some areas where PS is handy and I will still use this from time to time. An example would be the capability of PS to select very specific areas of an image to work on them. On the other hand, the PI range mask and star mask tools are very (very) powerful tools and make selective processing much easier than PS.
It can be an 'interesting' journey but one of the great things for PI is that there is a great repository of resources prepared by the likes of Harry Page, Warren Keller and many others and these can assist greatly with the learning curve.
Hope this helps.
R
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