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Originally Posted by RobF
Wow, what beautiful work Greg. I love the colours you've brought out in the galaxy and the stars - creamy milky colour and still some contrast from the blues in the arms and red/browns in the centre. Not the least bit overdone. A wonderful return for the many hours invested. Congrats!  |
Thanks Rob.
I processed this one differently to my usual routine.
I used Ken Crawfords multiple level deconvolution technique from his recent tutorial posted here. Thanks Ken!
I also picked a star and used it as a reference for deconvolution on the rgb so they all ended up with the same size measurement (FWHM).
I usually do LLRGB. Where I combine LRGB together, work on luminance separately to enhance it and layer it in later for added vibrance. This one is RGB with luminance added once only. The luminance is 30 iterations of positive constraint deconvolution, plus 200 iterations of both positive constraint and maximum entropy layered in with masks and kept all the same levels in CCDstack. I also used Focus Magic, Topaz Labs adjust 5, a couple of gradient correcting techniques including Gradient Xterminator and an apply image technique. I used soft light layers and high pass filtering to help bring out some more detail.
To get detail out seems to be a 2 pronged approach - sharpness routines plus colour contrast approaches. This has both.
Its amazing how much you can sharpen up an image doing this.
So there was a lot of work.