Ngc 1499 - Modified.

[Martin Pugh]

Rich

the tip was a good one.

I took that luminance frame and simply put it to soft light blend mode and all of that lovely detail came shining through. I also dropped the saturation by 15%

Here is the first version.

http://tinyurl.com/32j82pg

and modified is here
http://tinyurl.com/3xd9w4u

cheers
Martin

[gregbradley]

You kicked a goal with that latest version. That looks just perfect now.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

You have brought out some lovely detail from the Ha this time, looks great .

I see a brown ..I dunno if it is a gradient or what?..on the right and lower right side of the image, what do you think that is?

Overall a striking image Martin, nice job again.

Mike

[richardo (Rich)]

Hi Martin,
yes, that worked very effectively indeed.
Retaining the Ha detail nicely now.

Good trick the 'blend mode' set to 'soft light'. Brings forward the layered images contrasted detail while retaining the background images core appearance/ star size but enhancing.
I just gave this a go with a Lum and Ha compilation and it worked a treat.
Certainly saves a lot of fiddling around with layer masking, 'hide all' then painting in the details you want to bring out.

Thanks for that

BTW... the image looks perfect now. Desaturating 15% was the go. It looks more ... 'natural'... mmm for lack of a better word.

Now go for an APOD.. reckon this will have a very good chance.

All the best
Rich

[Martin Pugh]

Thanks very much. Yes, I am more pleased with this now.

Hey Mike - that's what I mentioned in the opening post - I did not expect to pick up tons of dust in the lower right of the image.

I checked the raw frames (and my planetarium software) and its there alright. So I was really pleased to see it.

cheers
Martin

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Hey Mike - that's what I mentioned in the opening post - I did not expect to pick up tons of dust in the lower right of the image.

I checked the raw frames (and my planetarium software) and its there alright. So I was really pleased to see it.

cheers
Martin

..ah yes..err?..I am just illiterut and inattetive

Seriously though, it just didn't look like dust to me, it is kinda uniformely smooth between the stars but this may just be a result of the specific processing used..?

Mike