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Originally Posted by danielsun
Thanks David, David and Chris, comment's very much appreciated. 
Chris, scince the last compendium I thought I had better get stuck into it in the hope to submit something nice for the next one. 
I have also re touched up the image with a little more saturation here.
http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/s...ESTYETSlig.jpg
Cheers Daniel. |
Daniel I think your color saturation is fine. Colors are spot on IMHO. If you find it a bit soft here's something you can do that works very well in most cases and that I use all the time.
Duplicate the whole layer and apply a highpass filter. For your image 2px will do the fine details, 5px and over the overall arches in the nebulae.
You can do this in stages. Blend the new layer as soflight or overlay if you want to be really aggressive, then tweak the opacity. Then you can make a black mask on the layer and paint white in it so everything you paint on the picture is enhanced while the rest of the picture is untouched. Working this way you can enhance the core, all the bok globules, the center of M20, the Ha fronts in M8, etc... whatever you want to tweak without affecting the overall starfield look or other areas of the shot you're happy with.