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Originally Posted by troypiggo
Adding the stars back in! I'm ending up with halos of dark around the stars because the starless nebula is stretched I guess. Got any tips/tricks on that one? Also finding the stars look a bit wrong, kinda too small. I don't want to blow them out, but they don't look proportionate to the nebulosity if that makes sense.
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The star layer should be set as lighten or lighter color so you don't get black ringing. Another trick is to select the stars with eyedropper and colour range then do a slight shadow/highlight filter on them. That gets rid of black outline. I use that per channel some time on blue channel when doing RGB.
If the stars are too small then the original selection was too tight. Try to increase the expand to 4px and feather more so you have more area to play with and blend in around the stars.
Very cool shot BTW.
