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Originally Posted by Ant0nio
 Ryan, I'm so glad you liked the result. It seems as though we have similar expectations with processing. This was the 5th iteration to get the dust lanes to fit your description.
I ended up using "enhance DSO & reduce stars" in Carboni's action set (the best $25 I've spent on software) to achieve the result.
1 layer of soft light & luminosity @ 90% were added after noise reduction to enhance colour. Cheers,
Tony
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I bought Carboni’s action set too. I didn’t end up using it much but what I did do was run some of the actions and follow the process to get s greater understanding of Photoshop and what does what and how. I then fine tuned things to suit my particular image. An easy way to “ enhance your DSO and reduce stars “ is to use the minimum tool. You have to be careful though because it has a tendency to clump details if you use it too much. You need to make sure it’s selected on “ maintain roundness “ then zoom into a part of the DSO that has some brighter nebulosity with some darkness in the frame. I tend to work between 0.2 and 0.7 pixels. Basically you just gently move up until you can see clumping appear then back down .1 or .2 pixels. Because it works on the highlights of the image it can be good to soften the overly bright features in the cores of some Nebula too.