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No worries Stuart. Give it a try. The only thing I do on occasion is mask the rings out, desaturate the rings..The rings should look white, with very little colour. While I've got that mask on, I then invert and lower the midlevels by 6 itts on the 2 globe sections. The biggest problem I see with Saturn is the rings exposed perfectly but then you look at the globe & it appears washed out, lowering the midlevels brings back the details & gives a sense of correct exposure...Naturally if you did this to the image as a whole, you'd lose the C ring!
The hardest part is drawing that damned mask freehand! As long as you are accurate with the mask as you drag across points like ring/globe intersections you're good to go.
EDIT: I should add I haven't bothered applying my masking technique to any of the images in this thread. I should do one up though, just to show the differences..
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