Here I go again, but can any one else see "things" in this image?
At the very top, just to the right of centre the nebulosity has formed into a skull. To the left of it is a piggy/farm animal sort of shape. The more I look the more I see.
I guess it's no more weird than seeing the Owl Eyes in Omega Centauri.
Processing aside, this is a rather spectacular image Paul. The tendrils look like the Terra forming vines made from Human juice that the martians sprayed in Spielbergs War of The Worlds remake with Tom Cruise.
Is this the image version you submitted to the DM awards?
Processing aside, this is a rather spectacular image Paul. The tendrils look like the Terra forming vines made from Human juice that the martians sprayed in Spielbergs War of The Worlds remake with Tom Cruise.
Is this the image version you submitted to the DM awards?
Mike
DM Awards? No.. don't think my images qualify for stuff like that ( of course you could loan me your FLI mega-ccd tripled cooled quad-overhead cam turbo charged CCD camera - then I'd be able to enter... ).
DM Awards? No.. don't think my images qualify for stuff like that ( of course you could loan me your FLI mega-ccd tripled cooled quad-overhead cam turbo charged CCD camera - then I'd be able to enter... ).
cheers
C'mon sure they are, with a bit of noise work and perhaps some colour fiddling, to me that image has that X-factor that many images lack..?
One way to reducer the noise is to use the blur tool in Photoshop if you have it.
Simply select the blur tool and then rub it on the noisy areas. You can adjust for how hard or soft the effect will be.
Another way is to lasoo the noisy areas using the control key to add new lasooed areas. Feather it 10 - 20 pixels and then use the gaussian blur filter to smooth it out to your taste.
You can refine this a bit by selecting the red, blue and green channels individually one at a time and rub the blur tool on those channels noisy areas. Often it is one colour channel that is noisier than the others so this way you don't blur the other channels where the data is OK.
Some people use Noise Ninja but i have never used it.
A very simple way of reducing noise without sacrificing detail as is always the case when using the blur tool is the following. (You don't even have to select the noisy regions of the image.)
cheers Kev.
