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Originally Posted by avandonk
Marc you have already shown me I am trying to hard to get contrast and then lose real information.
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We all have different styles of processing. You seem to like the sharper more contrasty type. I'm more mellow. Many ways to skin a cat. All personal preference really. I'm sure others will come with different and more pleasing views.
All I did was:
1_ strecth too versions of the TIFFs. One for the central details and one for the outer nebulae. The trick is not to burn the stars (or as little as possible)
2_ Composite them in two layers in photoshop. Put the sharp darker core on top of the over-stretched one with an opaque mask, then paint the outer area to reveal the faint stuff.
3_ Collapse the two then to a overlay in softlight with a high pass filter at 60% opacity to sharpen a little.