M33 Triangulum Galaxy (more data added)

[Rex]

Originally Posted by Spookyer

Rex, looks improved to me on my screen.


Brett

Thanks Brett, on mine it looks terrible, but I kind got to a point and was just going round in circles, so gave up and asked for help.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

G'day Rex,

I've really enjoyed the way you've sunk your teeth back into astrophotos. you are getting great results. you could perhaps turn the red down with PS, by using selective colour? Did you realign the RGB channels after stacking as i believe this gives a stronger red signal on a modded DSLR.

All the best, and keep posting your shots - been terrible weather in melbs so living vicariously through others shots!

Cheers,

Rusty

Thanks Rusty, for the encouragement and advice. I did try selective colour but still wasn't getting the results I wanted. I didn't realign them no, but most of my stacks come out of DSS with them already aligned, not sure if thats correct or not but that's the way they come out. Hope the weather improves for yuo soon.

Originally Posted by nebulosity.

Hey Rex, very nice image as your processing skill increase you will find the extra data really helps the over all image quality.

I used to have problems with the red in my images but found it's gone now that I've got cooling.

I had a go trying to see if I could remove it from your picture and it seems to come out OK, added a bit more blue as well.

Hope you don't mind me having a fiddle, I would recommend keeping all your data for when you want to have a go again.

Cheers
Jo

Thanks Jo, I don't mind at all, what you've done is great, you have actually achieved what I was trying too. Can I ask that you post the exact procedure along with the settings for each that you used to fix it please? I stuffed around for hours and couldn't get the result you have. If you could that would be great, so that then I can try them on the original. tanks again for your help.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

G'day Rex,

Here is what I did to your image.

First reduced the saturation of the red... Pic 1

Then with a brush removed this adjustment on the galaxy... Pic 2

I then lifted the blue level of the image... Pic 3

Which made sky a bit to blue so I removed this adjustment where it wasn't needed... Pic four

I then lifted the exposure, dropped the highlights and added some definition to bring out the galaxy arms a bit more... Pic 5

Then brushed in some contrast to darken the sky a bit... Pic 6

And then your ... Pic 7

Please note, I really don't know what I'm doing as I'm still trying to get my head around processing myself, there are probably much better ways of doing this

Cheers
Jo

[Rex]

Thanks for going to so much trouble to post that info Jo, what program is that you used? my PS looks very different to that.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by Rex

Thanks for going to so much trouble to post that info Jo, what program is that you used? my PS looks very different to that.

No worries Rex, glad I could help. I use a mac so it's the mac image editing program Aperture, not as complex as Photoshop but quite good.

Cheers
Jo