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Originally Posted by muletopia
Thank you for your kind words John. Inspired by them I reprocessed the sixty frames Perhaps more detail.
Chris
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Come on Chris the quality and the diffraction spikes give it away..clearly from James Web
...you are doing really well
..And thinking about things processing for most of us is a great deal of trial and error so have multiple attempts is good business...
Please keep trying StarTools as it was ages before I was happy...but try and run the noise reduction thing as I think you may find it helpful.
Try this work flow..much reduced but I do this most times...
Auto develop.You can mark an "area of interest" dragging your mouse.
Bin. (50% for now maybe less or none if you crop more than half the image...which I do many times...
Crop. ( to remove stacking stuff which after auto dev. Will be easy to notice). And you can sortta use it to frame a little better.
Wipe. The result here is scarey but hang in there and do the next step. If it removes everything start again and skip it...you shouldn't but I have had images that were that bad...I don't know if that is allowed but for a lo g time I avoided wipe probably because my gain was over-the-top.
Next
Auto Develop. You can use the film develop but I think the auto is best..I don't know really.
Contrast. Default but look at each setting...Try each if you wish...70 % I like in that part.
HDR..just hit "All" and rely on default settings for now..make a small square then hitv"all" when it has done it's thing.
Sharp. Select create mask and accept result ( later on try more aggressive settings if you like but personally I think it is counter productive).
Deacon...accept generate a mask and default settings but change things later down the road when things are going nicely ..on your next image perhaps) or mark out a small square then all.
Colour. You need to play around here I guess but if things don't look great dial back saturation perhaps. I just try to get the lines on the graph to all line up..which does not all ways happen for me..
Shrink. Accept create mask and the result you get for now...
De Noise..On the first screen move the slider a little to right and smear the noise just a bit..not to much for now..go "next" and Mark a very small square and when complete just hit "all" ( later play with settings but just this much should shrprise you).
Now you will notice I have left out a quiet a few things but you can try them later but if you follow the above the final image should be rather decent...
AND if you don't understand a step please ask and we can try and sort it out for you.
Alex
