Deepsky Stacker help,

[vash (Ashley)]

Ok, I've been playing around with this program for staking my images,
Normally I use photoshop and layer each image on top of each other then align them and change to opacity the merge them together.
This method is lots of fun and takes no time at all .

So I gave this a try and the first result was ok, that is until I compared it with my manual stack and found the stars where more bloated but I changed it to adaptive homogeneity-directed and used auto adaptive weighted average stacking parameters, this gave me a real good result with the stars as they where the exact same as my manual method.

Only problem is that the colour doesn't come out like the photoshop version, seem that the colour has faded somewhat, I've tried all sorts of different setting at the end but none come anything close to the raw stack in photoshop.

I'm looking for a way to get the same or similar image output as the raw captured image, less the noise of course,

So would anybody happen to know these magical settings?

I'll get an image comparison to show the difference,

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

the stacked image in DSS looks quite different to what it looks like in photoshop..have you taken it to photoshop and had a play?

[vash (Ashley)]

yeah, I loaded the saved image into photoshop and it took a lot of tweaking in the levels to get it close to the originals but it's wasn't quite the same,
I'll have to get the images of the other computer tomorrow.

[iceman (Mike)]

Saturation! Go to the saturation tab and set it to 20% and click apply. Make sure when you save it as TIF, you APPLY the adjustments to the image.

You can then adjust saturation more in photoshop.

[vash (Ashley)]

Tried that as well, For some reason the image came out brown or to green, tried adjusting it after a while I can get an image that resembles the raw image, but after all the effort put into to make it look good, I could have just stacked them in photoshop and have a better result,

[vash (Ashley)]

No need to worry, I figured it out, all is good again,

After spending all day yesterday I was prepared to do the same today.

I tried converting them to tiffs in adobe raw and loaded them up into deepsky stacker then let it go, couldn't believe my eye's when I saw the imaged that came out, it was pushed a heap so I adjusted all the luminance down to 0 as well as the RGB/K levels to linear and there it was the long sought after Image, though a little lighter than the raw but a real minor tweak in photoshop fixed that,

I left the adjustment off for the image below, just to show the difference
the one on the left is 8 images stacked in photoshop the one on the right is the same 8 images converted to tiff and stacked in deepsky stacker.

I'm believing that it might be something to do with loading the raws and white balance cause I got a few greenish images but converting to tiff applies the white balance so I unchecked the option and problem solved.