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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Fantastic image.
With regards to the sharpening - broadshoot type sharpening like
unsharp mask that sharpens everything in the image are not that useful as many things in an image look better unsharpened.
Its better to master selective sharpening which is well documented on the net and allows you to sharpen only those areas that need it and you can also unsharpen any stars that accidentally get sharpened.
Noise reduction also is a tricky process where not enough and the noise can be distracting especially in summer for DSLRs yet too much can make the background too black and rob some of the fainter nebula.
Noise Ninja is a Photoshop plugin that does a super job.
I'll see if I can find a link to a tutorial for you on selective sharpening.
Here is one:
http://web.me.com/davidsaffir/davids...ng_Method.html
Greg. |
Thanks Troy, Frank and Greg.
Greg, yep I have the Noise Ninja plugin for CS4. With this image I only just touched it with Noise Ninja, because I know that it will ruin faint data if you go too heavy on it. As for the sharpening, this image doesn't have any done to it at all. Originally I did crank the image with a bit of sharpening, but it looked wrong (as kindly noted by a few quick responses earlier today). Therefore I didn't use sharpening at all on this version of the image.
Thank you very much for the link and encouraging words
Michael