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Old 09-02-2008, 09:51 PM
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Paul,

Using an instrument that simply does not record the red bits, does not change the colour of the object. It will however change how the instrument records the object.

Hence my comments on alter vs enhance. If you know the instruments shortfall, then you can compensate for it, and get something that better approximates the original.

To make arbitrary changes (eg green moon) or generate synthetic processing artifacts seems pointless to me

To enhance some aspect of information within the (calibrated) image data....as shown by Richard Murray...takes some skill...and I tend to agree with Fred, can give image a "wow" factor that is often hard to find.



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Originally Posted by Zuts View Post

By buggering it up do you mean leaving it blue (the tarantula is more brownish, lots of Hb) or do you mean adding the Ha colour that does not physically exist in the data as captured by my camera.
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