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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Looks really good Rob, lot's of solidity there.
Good composition for a point and shoot effort too 
One thing, did you use shadow highlights on this in PS? 
Mike |
Thanks Mike, sometimes you get lucky.
There are a hodge-podge of Pixinsight functions I played with (ala "oh Mr Hart"). Local area histogram enhance, atrous wavelets and some manual recombination of wavelet layers using pixel math (oh, and some masked erosion on the stars). I think in photoshop speak that's effectively like combining high pass filtered (at a large and small scale) cloned images to varying amounts and very slight minimum filter on stars (PI still doesn't do layers unfortunately, so you have to mathematically combine such things). It was late and I wasn't being very scientific about it, using original histogram stetched image to try and tone it down at the end. I usually do a final polish in PS, but for practice forced myself to use only PI for processing, with PS used at end just to downsize the final jpg to <200kb for display here.
I often feel like the "Sorcerer's apprentice" playing with some PI functions
(suspect Juan, Rogelio, Harry or other PI gurus might come in and see what is happening, then clip me over the ear and say "No! Not like that!")