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Originally Posted by PKay
A very stunning pair of dragons Murry.
Great depth and contrast and a dramatic variation of hue.
It would be most interesting to see your PI workflow.
Perhaps one day you might write it out for us!
Very well done  |
This is a cut and paste of my PI workflow I use as a guide. Not every step is used for every photo but should give a bit of a guide :
- Weighted Batch Processing
- Drizzle Integration
- Dynamic Crop
- Background Extraction
- Noise Reduction
- Stretch
- Linear Fit
- Channel Combination
- SCNR on Green 84%
- Correct Magenta Stars Script
- Starmask Noise 0.4 / Scale 5+ / Smoothness 8
- Apply Starmask
- Morphological Transformation to reduce stars
- Starnet to remove stars / create starmask
- Clonestamp clean up
- Background Extraction
- Create Colourmasks
- Use masks with Curves
- More noise reduction if needed
- Extract L-Component from RGB image
- Run Starnet on HA
- Mask HA with L-Component
- Run MLT
- Duplicate RGB and run Convolution to Blur / Shape 2
- LRGB Combination / HA to L Slot / Uncheck RGB / Check Chrominance Noise Reduction / Apply to blurred image / Adjust lightness slider (decrease)
- Deconvolution for Sharpening
- Apply L-Component Mask from earlier set to protect background
- STDev 2.0 / Shape 2 / Interation 1
- Local Histogram Equalisation for sharpening
- HDR Multiscale Transform / Check Lightness Mask / Play with # of layers
- Curves Transformation / RGBk / Lightness / Saturation
- ACDNR
- Dark Structure Enhance
- Pixel Math - add stars back in
- Curves - Colour Saturation
- Image Export
- Final in LR/Photoshop