Im now processing NGC6334 ive done myself, and your rendition has become somewhat the best reference I can find for my processing. Your a dark horse Slawomir, there is more to your effort than meets the eye. You have nailed "modified hubble" IMO and have upped the bar forceing me to change the way I process NB entirely, ive spent days on relearning processing in PS in many ways to avoid the failures of standard hubble and come close to your effort. Did you process only in PI?. I think you are right up with contempary processing and thank you for kicking my ass.
I wouldn't mind some tips as well. I have data on this to process from wide field to narrow field. Both in narrowband.
Some up to date tips would be good as that is an excellent rendition. I have been using the Astrodon screen mode Photoshop method as per Astrodon website. Its not bad. Not sure it would produce those sorts of electric colours though.
Im now processing NGC6334 ive done myself, and your rendition has become somewhat the best reference I can find for my processing. Your a dark horse Slawomir, there is more to your effort than meets the eye. You have nailed "modified hubble" IMO and have upped the bar forceing me to change the way I process NB entirely, ive spent days on relearning processing in PS in many ways to avoid the failures of standard hubble and come close to your effort. Did you process only in PI?. I think you are right up with contempary processing and thank you for kicking my ass.
Thank you Fred...honestly, I do not know what to say... I think you are way too kind
I processed the image entirely in PI, except for some experimental stretching with FITS Liberator.
I think it took me at least as much computer time to process the data as the integration time for this photo - clearly I need a faster computer
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I wouldn't mind some tips as well. I have data on this to process from wide field to narrow field. Both in narrowband.
Some up to date tips would be good as that is an excellent rendition. I have been using the Astrodon screen mode Photoshop method as per Astrodon website. Its not bad. Not sure it would produce those sorts of electric colours though.
Greg.
Thank you Greg, I will write a few humble tips sometime tomorrow, or the following day at the latest.
Thank you gents very much for your kind words and encouragement.
I was thinking of the tips that Greg has asked about, but not sure what would be useful.
Perhaps at the core of processing was extracting tone maps, such tone maps allowed for more freedom in achieving desirable colours in the final image. This tutorial explains how to create such masks: http://www.arciereceleste.it/articol...omposition-eng
Also I have learnt to be very careful and gentle with noise reduction, local contrast enhancement, sharpening and in fact any step - I feel that too often I used to "distort data" too much somewhere in process thus creating a monstrosity rather than preserving and bringing up the most subtle structures and presenting them in unison with brighter parts of a nebula.
Thanks for that S! I've been planning on displaying those for future NB work; it can be helpful to those who've not imaged a particular subject before in terms of deciding what to bother with.
Thanks for that S! I've been planning on displaying those for future NB work; it can be helpful to those who've not imaged a particular subject before in terms of deciding what to bother with.
I have seen some people posting such previews, and I think it could be a nice practice for the reasons you have mentioned
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That is sensational. In every conceivable way.
Have you considered submitting that to APOD?
Thank you Alex
APOD - what is it? Alternative Place Of Detention?
