How do you make an image pop/stand out and not look flat?
I keep my data linear for as long as possible, and yet it still looks way too flat to me.
Is it still a matter of more data = depth, or is there a trick to give it a feeling of depth?
Here is my total reprocess of NGC 6188 - I kept it linear in PI until basically everything else was done, then STF'd, Histogram Transformed and a small saturation tweak then saved as a TIFF exported to PS for a saturation tweak (and nothing else). And yet it still looks FLAT
https://www.astrobin.com/342457/B/.
Also, is it better to save as a TIFF or PNG before putting it into PS? Which retains quality better?