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Nice - For me separating the stars and starless is crucial to emphasising the nebula without the stars getting out of control.
I use Pix Insight and StarXterminator,
but if you use Starnet,
in photoshop -take the starless image as a layer and subtract it from your original. Then you'll have a stars and starless layer.
Then blend the stars with the blend function 'screen' you can easily adjust the size and intensity with a clipped levels adjustment layer.
You can then boost the crap out of your starless to make it pop with curves and hue saturation etc.
Pretty sure you'd be able to do all this in GIMP but I've never used it.
If you want to upload your stacked raw file I'd love to have a play with it haha.
Cheers!
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