[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Quite nice looking work Greg. Maybe the blue could be boosted a little. Also there is some ringing around the brighter stars. The bright star just to the right of the lower galactic arm has a noticable ring aorund it. Looking around the field the effect is noticable. If you can sort this out I reckon the image will be a cracker.

I checked the blue it seems fine. I can pull the magenta back a tad - perhaps that is what you are noticing/

Yes some of the stars seemed to get a ring. I did work on that already. But I think in the decon process I let a bit of harshness leak through. I'll have to go back in the process and handle that. Its in the luminance not the colour layer. A repro to address that would be worth it.

Originally Posted by renormalised

Like Paul said, if you can fix the ringing around some of those stars, this image will be ace....not that it already isn't

The details in the galaxy are superb

Great work, Greg

Thanks Carl.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Greg

Very nice indeed but need to work on smoothing the background IMO

attached is one I did a quick fix on compared to your original

Thanks for the suggestions Trevor. Darkness of background may be a personal taste. Generally I go for the dark grey background which is the actual colour of the night sky. A black background does bring up contrast but it can black clip some faint stuff. I did smooth the background and it was slightly uneven at one point but I thought I smoothed that aspect of it out. Are you referring to the darkness of the background? I notice in your processing the core colour changed and so did the galaxy arms and that is one aspect of my image that I liked. So I'd want to keep that unaffected.

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Beaut image Greg. The detail in the centre of the galaxy is amazing.

Thanks Peter. I like this multiple levels technique. I just need to be more careful with the stars as I do it. My mask wasn't done carefully enough on the stars. I'll go back and address that. Unfortunately its early in the processing!