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Originally Posted by graham.hobart
Ivo, my steps up till now have been -load image, screen stretch, bin to either 35-39%, crop stacking artifacts then-
develop to high 90's, some of the time I think I over 'develop' and the image from then on cannot be ' wiped' back to a nice neutral uniform background? Is this correct- what I want to do is max the galaxy signal but create uniform bg.
After develop I have tried with either wipe (no partial masks) or with a mask then processed from there.
NB I am using the TIF file from deepsky stacker not the jpeg.
Graham
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You're doing all the right things Graham - no user error here as far as I can tell. I just sent you a link to a 1.2 alpha version. See if that makes any difference and see if you can reproduce the image I attached in my previous post. May I ask what version your are using currently (bottom left of the main/home screen)?
I know what you mean by 'over developing'. In the presence of a lot of light pollution it may feel that way - lots of stretching is needed to see any sort of signal that is otherwise drowned out. The Normalization filter should help a little (but it is conservative in order to not destroy color balance information/ratios).
Wipe, however, should save the day and my apologies for the grief it's been giving you.