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Nice first attempt and I agree that the stars are very tight and with nice colour.
However, I personally think this could easily be stretched more without blowing out anything; the nebula looks quite muted to me. Just try a simple auto adjustment in Photoshop levels to get an idea of what is possible. The histogram shows a huge amount of "room" that is wasted! To do it properly you would probably need to protect the brighter stars with a mask.
The other thing I've noticed is that The RGB histogram peaks are shifted relative to each other. Again, in my view they ought to have been "aligned" early in the processing. When I do this roughly the red doesn't predominate as much and there is more blue evident.
Peter
Edit. I've played around with your image and I think the result is pretty interesting. I won't post it (unless you want me to) but I'm happy to email to you if you want to contact me off line.
Last edited by PRejto; 02-05-2022 at 11:06 AM.
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