Repros that is. Rain. Babies. No new data. Pulled out my NGC6334 Cat's Paw from Astrofest 2009 and tried to implement some processing things I've learned since then. Mainly wanting to control the stars a bit better. My original attempt completely blew out the stars. I've attached both attempts, repro on the left.
My personal taste is for the 1st image – the stars are very nice, the background looks just right on my screen and overall it just looks very natural and, well, nice!
Thanks for the feedback guys. I thought the nebula was a little magenta, and as Mike suggested the BG a bit noisy. I really dare not push this data any more.