Hi Aaron. This is a great tutorial! If I may add something. Balancing the colours as a very first step in Photoshop helped me to avoid strange colour casts, hard to remove at a later post-process stage.
Thanks for the video, it's the best i saw so far. I followed the process and I got amaizing result. Looking forward to see another post-processing video.
Very precise video, you've helped me so much with layer masking and star bloating. All I need now is a video on how to remove those thousands of tiny, orange pesky stars! Great video
Absolutely incredible. What a good tutorial! I was terrified of layer masks! I will try on my wide field Elephant trunk, it is a very difficult stretch, even prone to over stretching
Thank you for this post! I was able to dramatically improve an image that I previously attempted to process in PS. It was quite noisy and had a green cast from a narrowband filter that I couldn't totally remove without being overly aggressive. I don't have a lot of experience with PS, but I'm going to retry these techniques on previously captured images and see how much they improve.
Michael Lewis you’re welcome and that’s great to hear hoe much improvement your getting. I’ve got a couple other videos on editing that you may find useful as well. Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much for this amazing tutorial! Following along step by step, I was able to edit one of the better versions of Andromeda I've done thus far. As a new user and new astro-photographer, Photoshop had been overwhelming up to this point, so this was a true help. Clear Skies!
@@AVAstronomy It's already been helpful twice! Used it again to process NGC 281, which was my first extensive capture/processing on an emission nebula. I'm very thankful for all of the tutorials here on youtube. Thanks again, I've gladly subscribed and look forward to seeing more videos!
Wow Holy Shit. This is amazing. How did I not come across your channel before. Thank you thank you sir. This is easy enough for a newbie like myself to get started in processing my images. Liked and subscribed.
Hey, Aaron! Great Tutorial.Thanks for sharing! The tutorial again contains helpful tips. If I understand it correctly, you want to use the inverse star mask to prevent the stars from bloating when stretching. Unfortunately your approach is not quite correct, because the function "Adjustments-Curve" does not take the mask in the layer below into account. Only when you activate the button with the arrow down (left button at the bottom) in "Curve", the mask will show its effect. Otherwise "Adjustments-Curve" has an effect on the whole image. I hope I am not wrong with my statement. You are welcome to check it and tell me your result. Greetings Stefan
Stefan Balzer thanks Stefan, now that you mention it I believe you’re correct on that. However, I’ve noticed that star masks tend get weird dark halos around them after being stretched. I’ve found that the arc sin stretches minimize star bloat even without a mask, but yes the curves should be done on the layer that is masked.
Awesome tutorial. For the Arcsinh curves from Mark, in the cloudynights post he gives a process for blending them, using additional layers and the channel mixer. Wondering if you have tried doing that with the selective masking you've down here or if the two would be incompatible? I may try it myself, but I am pretty new to PS, so it will take me a while, and I am following your tutorial first, so thought I would as. Cheers.
Thank you! I have tried his other method but didn’t really like the results I was getting. Other people do find it very useful though. I Astro Ed provides a really good tutorial on the method posted in cloudy nights forums if you want to give it a shot.
Very Nice tutorial.. I get stuck on the step when you turned the image into green background.. What keyboard shortcut did you use? is it alt + backspace? Thanks
Ahmed Falih Thank you Ahmed! I think you’re referring to the light pollution removal technique correct? If that is the case then yes you press alternate backspace after you have color sampled the top layer color that you’re trying to remove from the picture.
Siril is a free astrophotography that is like pix insight in that it stacks and does a lot of post processing(the biggest being dbe) it removes gradients IMO a lot better. I would recommend it.
my dee sky stacker produces 32bit tif files, and when I import to photoshop it will not allow me to select color range. Should I change it to 16 bit in PS or is there a way to make DSS produce a 16 bit output?
not quite at circa 5 mins,... one needs to clip the adjustment layers to the star mask to get the effect other wise you get global changes, but be careful with the adjustments as you'll end up with halos around the star mask holes.
Forgive my confusion, but after watching this through I just don’t understand how the image doesn’t completely fall apart after using so many of the arcsinh passes, it’s like you could nearly infinitely keep doing it and reveal actual aliens in that image 😂 You’ve hardly any noise or image degradation yet reveal so many details within the nebula, what am I missing?
I promise the learning curve is easier than pixinsight. There are other programs like Siril and Astropixel processor. But honestly all of them have a learning curve.
Thank you for the video however It does not seem correct, if you compare all through the tutorial the stars actually do increase in how they are illuminated, even though you create the masks, this is because the adjustment layers you add have their own masks and masks do not stack between laters. This is pretty misleading and honestly adds a bunch of extra work to the workflow that does not actually affect the outcome. Don't get me wrong, I wish it would work as I have a Doublet and star bloat is a nightmare for me.
Hi Aaron. This is a great tutorial! If I may add something. Balancing the colours as a very first step in Photoshop helped me to avoid strange colour casts, hard to remove at a later post-process stage.
Wow, great workflow, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for this, I'm a noob and this has helped tremendously, I can actually see progress 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌
That's great! Glad it helped. Its a journey. keep on working at it and have fun with it. clear skies!
Many thanks Michael, best editing video ever! My first try after this was amazing!
Thanks for the video, it's the best i saw so far. I followed the process and I got amaizing result. Looking forward to see another post-processing video.
Great to hear!
Always enjoy your tutorials....😊✨🔭
Just when I think I may have covered most aspects in photoshop I learn a few more techniques. Thanks Aaron
Nick Axaris you’re welcome Nick!
Why have I not seen this video before. Fantastic! I’ve been struggling with layer masks.
Glad you found it James. Thank you!
That is incredible, thank you for sharing this info!
My pleasure!
Amazing video. Really liking your content. The plugin is very cool. Thanks for sharing !
Gilberto Florencio de Souza Jr thank you!! Glad you found the video helpful.
Thank you so much. This is great stuff. Keep them tutorials coming👍🤘👏👏
Torbjørn Gustafson thank you!
Incredibly helpful tutorial! Would love to see more walkthroughs of your post-processing!
Thank you! I plan on doing more of these in the future so stay tuned. Clear skies and God bless!
Thanks a lot man
I always follow ur tutorial
You’re welcome. 👍
Very nice and detailed.
Michal M. Thank you. Hope it helps!
Excellent, again. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks again!
Thank you for these detailed information.
You’re welcome. God bless and clear skies!
Great video, thanks for taking the time!
Wow awesome video one the best ones I seen thank you for this! 🔭📸
Llamar Vasquez thank you! Glad you found it helpful.
Very precise video, you've helped me so much with layer masking and star bloating. All I need now is a video on how to remove those thousands of tiny, orange pesky stars! Great video
Thank you and glad you found the video helpful. Try using starNet++ to remove those pesky orange stars. God bless and clear skies!
Absolutely incredible. What a good tutorial! I was terrified of layer masks! I will try on my wide field Elephant trunk, it is a very difficult stretch, even prone to over stretching
Jonathan Nguyen thank you and glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for this post! I was able to dramatically improve an image that I previously attempted to process in PS. It was quite noisy and had a green cast from a narrowband filter that I couldn't totally remove without being overly aggressive. I don't have a lot of experience with PS, but I'm going to retry these techniques on previously captured images and see how much they improve.
Michael Lewis you’re welcome and that’s great to hear hoe much improvement your getting. I’ve got a couple other videos on editing that you may find useful as well. Thanks for watching!
Good job. I will definitely be saving this video. Thank you.
Figz Photography you’re welcome. Thanks for watching!
Excellent tutorial - thanks!
Brian Hassett thank you and you’re welcome.
Thanks very much for this amazing tutorial! Following along step by step, I was able to edit one of the better versions of Andromeda I've done thus far. As a new user and new astro-photographer, Photoshop had been overwhelming up to this point, so this was a true help. Clear Skies!
Thank you Joshua! Glad it was helpful. God bless and clear skies!
@@AVAstronomy It's already been helpful twice! Used it again to process NGC 281, which was my first extensive capture/processing on an emission nebula. I'm very thankful for all of the tutorials here on youtube. Thanks again, I've gladly subscribed and look forward to seeing more videos!
Lovely shot what where your exposure settings and focal length for this one?
Wow Holy Shit. This is amazing. How did I not come across your channel before. Thank you thank you sir. This is easy enough for a newbie like myself to get started in processing my images. Liked and subscribed.
Black Panda you’re quite welcome. Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for the support!
I found the arcsine stretch on another TH-camr channel. What a difference! Camera raw in the CS6 version is difficult.
Great job. Great tip...can't wait to give it a try, takes some of the guessing out of it.
greg meyer thanks Greg! Should help you get some better results in your post processing.
Very helpful, many thanks!
I couldn't heard what you said after you created the star mask and placed the cursor over the mask at the 12:36 mark. Thanks
Thank you so much! Just starting out and with ap and needless to say, post processing is pretty daunting at first😅. Really helpful tutorial!
You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful to you.
Never used Layer Mask in PS only in PI. This is easy enough. I will give it a try Aaron!
Hi Ray! Yes, I think you'll find them very helpful when editing in photoshop.
This is awesome! I really need help with Orion processing. Can’t seem to get the core not blown out
check out my video on this. I have a whole video dedicted to processing orion. bit.ly/3BOVr2x
Thanks for this!!
super helpful. Thanks!
Justin Hendrickson you’re welcome! Glad it helped.
I'm assuming this is an 8 bit image since the Select, Color Range is grayed out on mine. I have a file from Deep Sky Stacker in Tiff format.
Great video.
Hey, Aaron! Great Tutorial.Thanks for sharing!
The tutorial again contains helpful tips. If I understand it correctly, you want to use the inverse star mask to prevent the stars from bloating when stretching. Unfortunately your approach is not quite correct, because the function "Adjustments-Curve" does not take the mask in the layer below into account. Only when you activate the button with the arrow down (left button at the bottom) in "Curve", the mask will show its effect. Otherwise "Adjustments-Curve" has an effect on the whole image. I hope I am not wrong with my statement. You are welcome to check it and tell me your result.
Greetings
Stefan
Stefan Balzer thanks Stefan, now that you mention it I believe you’re correct on that. However, I’ve noticed that star masks tend get weird dark halos around them after being stretched. I’ve found that the arc sin stretches minimize star bloat even without a mask, but yes the curves should be done on the layer that is masked.
Awesome tutorial. For the Arcsinh curves from Mark, in the cloudynights post he gives a process for blending them, using additional layers and the channel mixer. Wondering if you have tried doing that with the selective masking you've down here or if the two would be incompatible? I may try it myself, but I am pretty new to PS, so it will take me a while, and I am following your tutorial first, so thought I would as. Cheers.
Thank you! I have tried his other method but didn’t really like the results I was getting. Other people do find it very useful though. I Astro Ed provides a really good tutorial on the method posted in cloudy nights forums if you want to give it a shot.
@@AVAstronomy Awesome, thanks for the reply. I'll have to check it out. Cheers and clear skies!
Very Nice tutorial.. I get stuck on the step when you turned the image into green background.. What keyboard shortcut did you use? is it alt + backspace? Thanks
Ahmed Falih Thank you Ahmed! I think you’re referring to the light pollution removal technique correct? If that is the case then yes you press alternate backspace after you have color sampled the top layer color that you’re trying to remove from the picture.
@@AVAstronomy Yes that's correct. Wonderful it works. Thanks a lot that was really great tutorial.
Siril is a free astrophotography that is like pix insight in that it stacks and does a lot of post processing(the biggest being dbe) it removes gradients IMO a lot better. I would recommend it.
I’ll definitely check that out. Thanks!
Amazing photo! Can you get similar images using a program like GIMP? I don't have a computer capable of running PS.
Thank you! And as far as I know, yes, GIMP is a very capable editing software for astrophotography.
my dee sky stacker produces 32bit tif files, and when I import to photoshop it will not allow me to select color range. Should I change it to 16 bit in PS or is there a way to make DSS produce a 16 bit output?
not quite at circa 5 mins,... one needs to clip the adjustment layers to the star mask to get the effect other wise you get global changes, but be careful with the adjustments as you'll end up with halos around the star mask holes.
great point about the star halos.
What do you press to invert the mask?
Control I
I really struggle with making and similar in photoshop
Forgive my confusion, but after watching this through I just don’t understand how the image doesn’t completely fall apart after using so many of the arcsinh passes, it’s like you could nearly infinitely keep doing it and reveal actual aliens in that image 😂 You’ve hardly any noise or image degradation yet reveal so many details within the nebula, what am I missing?
Lol! For starters you have to have good data, Many dithered stacked frames(40 or so). There is a limit to the stretches. I usually only do about 3.
Photoshop is overwhelming for people who don't use it much. I feel like I'd have a hard.time doing this
I promise the learning curve is easier than pixinsight. There are other programs like Siril and Astropixel processor. But honestly all of them have a learning curve.
Thank you for the video however It does not seem correct, if you compare all through the tutorial the stars actually do increase in how they are illuminated, even though you create the masks, this is because the adjustment layers you add have their own masks and masks do not stack between laters. This is pretty misleading and honestly adds a bunch of extra work to the workflow that does not actually affect the outcome. Don't get me wrong, I wish it would work as I have a Doublet and star bloat is a nightmare for me.