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Originally Posted by adman
definitely more data would help, as would some flats - there is a decent gradient - lighter at bottom (especially left) than the top, as well as getting rid of the dust shadows. The stars look quite clipped - just plain white dots rather than any colour depth to them, and there is quite a purple-ish cast to the whole image - the outer dust clouds are much more grey than they show in your image.
But a good start - keep them coming.
Adam
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Thanks Adam. My hamfisted levels in PS blew out the stars no doubt. Will note that next time.
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Originally Posted by rcheshire
Had a play in GIMP. Not brilliant but gives an idea of what can be done by selecting individual RGB curves. A big curve to brighten. A blurred mask and then sharpen. An S curve for contrast and Sharpen. I use Pixinsight so not very much help with PS. Quality is lousy due jpeg etc etc but the colour is looking a little better. Noted the ringing around the stars probably due to sharpen.
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Yep big difference! Individual RGB curves - noted. Thanks for the effort.