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Originally Posted by AlexN
Chris, That redo looks great... Can you tell me what you did to achiece the better contrast without losing too much of the nebulosity?
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Alex - I first upsized it (yep!) to 2048px wide. I then did a Gaussian Blur to atificially remove some noise. I then adjusted levels to bring the mid tones down a little towards black. Curves next - added some linear contrast and then finally adjusted saturation up just a tad to bring out the colour in the nebulosity. The last step was to then downscale it back to 800 px wide and adjust brightness up a little because this forum tends to darken images a bit for some reason.
Have you got a link to the original? I'd like to see what I can do with it for a bit of fun if you do
