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Old 12-10-2010, 07:46 PM
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Octane (Humayun)
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Max,

Even if you set the white balance in Digital Photo Professional after the images have been taken, there isn't much point in doing this as your astrophoto pre-processing software is not going to honour the change.

Unless you plan to set white balance, export as 16-bit TIFFs, then stack the TIFFs instead of RAWs, there's not much point.

Also, using auto levels as mentioned above, is just about the worst thing you can do.

Auto levels, auto contrast and auto colour all do very different things, and they revolve around the blacks and whites in the image.

We massage our data so much, that white balance really isn't an issue.

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