Saturn from 4/22

[alphajuno (Dave)]

Since seeing has been poor here, I had time to look through some old AVI's of Saturn. I also went to the Cassini site to look at the way those pictures are color balanced. I have trouble capturing the same sort of golden, pastel hues on Saturn itself. Anyone have any tips? Thanks.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Wow Dave, what a great image. It has been a while since I have last seen an image of Saturn so thankyou for posting.

Lovely smooth image with lots of detail and I also see that you captured a storm as well. As for the colour, I quite like the colouring you have now but it does look a bit green at the moment.

Very well done.

[iceman (Mike)]

That's a great image, Dave. Perhaps some adjustment of the background levels and some adjustment of the green colour balance would even things out a bit.

I'm looking forward to Saturn coming around again.. though it's still a few months away. It was a horrible year for Saturn this year down under.

[alphajuno (Dave)]

Thanks. I'll reduce the impact of the green some.

[bluescope]

Nice Cassini division, very sharp image Dave. As Mike said it will be nice to see Saturn again in the southern hemisphere.

[pelu]

Nice Saturn!

In Photoshop, use the SELECT/ COLOR RANGE to select the background, invert selecction and use IMAGE/ADJUSTEMENTS/AUTOCOLOR.

And a COLOR BALANCE layer for small color adjustements turn your excelent picture in this:

(is a display capture.. I don´t know what quality have now...)

[matt]

Definitely colourful

[alphajuno (Dave)]

Thanks Pelu. I like what you did to the picture. I only have Photoshop Elements. I still haven't learned all of the features in Maxim DL so I may be able to do something like that in. Thanks for the tips!