Make Your Astrophotography Colors Pop (Selective Color Boosting)
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- How to effectively boost the colors and saturation of your deep-sky astrophotography images using Photoshop.
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In this tutorial, I show you a few ways to really make the colors in your galaxy images "pop", by selectively adjusting the vibrance and saturation of the image.
I also share a technique you can use to selectively de-saturate the space around your galaxy or nebula. This is useful when you have a noisy, color mottled background sky.
I hope this astrophotography tutorial was useful for you! Until next time, clear skies!
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Woah, we’re seeing stars. Nice. 👍
Woa, didn’t expect see photoshop in the comments
you're nice too :)
Whoo
I hope you found this tutorial useful! Whether you're acquiring images or spending hours processing them, don't forget why you're doing this! HAVE FUN
Thanks for the tutorial I need help with astrophotography keep it up I’m new to astrophotography
Hey Trevor fantastic video, I'm just wondering if you can make a video on how to make the images look like they have depth to them instead of a flat image, I'd be happy to send the stacked TIFF of my ETA Carina nebula if you would like to use that in the tutorial
I didnt think id get my ig comment whining answered in a video lol
Great example of color Mask! I used Pixinsight, but this is good to know how to do this in Photoshop!
Yes - did noticed your bounty! Good one too!
Everything you do, you're doing it right! Love to see how you make your hobby into your own business. Good luck with that!
were are you bro
@@vertex3243 he has a new channel
Hmm the colour mottling selective desaturate, sounds like something I really need. Thanks Trevor great tutorial. Amazing how you come up with these techniques
Thank you so much for all your help. I am just getting started in this awesome hobby and just got my first presentable picture of bodes and cigar galaxy. What a feeling. Your advice and tutorials have been very helpful. Thank you. I am hooked for life
Thank you, I found this very useful. Looking forward to making my images pop!
Exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you sir!!
Oh come on man this photo is 20 million years old.... please take the present picture 😁
You ever just wonder why anyone would dislike a video? I wonder that.
i really need some help processing the Rho Scorpii region, i'm shooting with a rebel t5i not modified
Sorry if it's too fast! I had 3 cups of coffee before recording this 😐
I know its pretty basic but i cant sleep without knwoing it xd. So, how does a telescope capture the colour from space since, with binoculars, we see space in black and white. Does the telescope have any blue, green and red filters? How does it work?
It has to do with the rods and cones in your eye, the photoreceptors. The rods are a lot more sensitive (we have about 17 times more rods than cones in our eyes) but are poor at seeing color. So our eyes basically shift to a more sensitive but black and white view when we are in the dark. The cones need a lot more light to be triggered but are good at seeing colors.
Great little tips Trevor!
We need a video where you acquire those amazing galaxy photos! Did you use your 11" Edge HD? Thanks for the tutorial!
Theodossis Papadopoulos Ξαναπέστο φίλε... εντάξει εδώ παλεύω με ένα 70αρι doublet (με καλούς φακούς και τρίποδο) και μια rebel T1i, αλλά ούτε στα πιο τρέλα μου όνειρα δεν βγαίνει έτσι καμπάνα το M51 και Μ101. Αν και ο τυπαρας δουλεύει με φίλτρα που κοστίζουν όσο όλο το rig μου...
@@ioannisioannou7518 Και εγώ που έχω 8" TS F5 reflector, μαζί με μια Nikon D3500 (μούφα, πρέπει να πάω σύντομα σε μία cooled CCD/CMOS) δεν βλέπω τέτοια λεπτομέρεια. Πρέπει να τα έχει τραβήξει με το 11" Edge και την Starlight CCD που έχει.
That really helped me with my Andromeda picture, Thanks
First comment!! (hopefully)
Nailed it
This is really going to be helpful for my images that I'm just starting to learn how to process.
Thank goodness for the pause button though, because you go soooo fast !! Just because you know what you're doing, go slower for us newbies.
Thanks !!
I can't wait to obtain my light pollution filter and use all your astrophotography tutorials
Awesome. You should get a lot of value out of my image processing vids because a LOT of the data I play with was shot using an LP filter!
Hi Trevor. "Hoped this helped" - dude, are you kidding?!? You explain things so clearly and distinctly, there's no way your videos COULDN'T be a help. Thanks for your time, expertise, and delivery. Some of us older imagers are not as 'hip' to all the techniques available. I use both PIxInsight and PS, but there are so many tools, and time to experiment is not always available.
Again, many thanks, and hope the current fires are not in your area.
- - Steve
I think this solves many of issues in my processing, I will definitely try that !
Excellent as always. Thanks for all your contributions to astrophotography!
Great! But there is a small problem.
Maybe it's just my personal taste,
but the red rings around the stars in the background,
for me they are not very beautiful!
How do you get rid of this red halo?
Thanks.
Thank you Trevor! Can't tell you how much this improved my images!
What gear would you sudjest for a 2000$ price tag for begginers? I have an EOS 1300D and I want to follow astrophotography for my Fine Arts School finals can you help or anyone in the coments my teachers do not know so much about it so I'm asking wherever I can.
bro are you really an astronaut?
lol. I'd never pass the physical
Every time I watch your videos I learn more. I’m having a rough time retaining it all, but there’s times when I’m in front of one of my images and I have that memory flash of something I picked up from these videos. Thanks Sir!
Awesome & helpful tutorials. Thanks so much! Just a little curious if you have tried the “Smooth” slider located just above the “Feather” slider....
The data that you start with already has a wide range of colours in most of your shots. I use an OSC camera, a 183C and my pics have mostly reds and pinks. I also use a l-enhance filter that might affect my shots. Is there any way to capture more blue/yellow in my images? I could then enhance those colours with your above techniques.
I do notice most of the mono cameras do a better job with other colors. But you seem to have some success with OSCs?
Thank you I’m new to astrophotography can I do it with a go to dobsonion and a dslr
thanks awesome tutorial
My pleasure, thank you!
How do you preserve colours of the stars so nicely? Is it because of monochrome camera with filters? I can't even think of not getting blown out stars with my 600D.
It would be a much better video if you made your picture in picture much smaller. You are blocking the view of the sliders. Or put the P in P on the lower left. Just sayin'
Really great technique but I had trouble continuing afterward. How do you get back to a layer where you could do it again with another color? After a number of unsuccessful attempts I finally had to flatten image before I could proceed.
Helpful as always. Thats why I subscribed now and hope that it wil be possible to hang out with you live in your backyard :)
You're an excellent teacher. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Great Video but stupid question how did you get the colours in the first place once you have stacked in DSS?
I can understand tweaking things, but I really don't like large adjustments.
Awesome technique,! Many thanks for sharing.
Congratulations bud you deserve it. Couldn’t of happened to a nicer guy.
can you do a tutorial on dealing with class 8-9 sky light pollution with unmodified camera and without tracker and only using camera lenses and a tripod
I'm not into astrophotography but I do enjoy your videos and let's be honest, just looking at pictures of stellar objects is truly beautiful. But maybe one day I'll get into photography :P I'll keep this video in mind for that day.
Thanks Avana!
the most lovely word to say to a fellow astrophotographer. "Have a clear sky"
Great video! What equipment did you use to capture the galaxy images?
Another awesome one Trevor! I’m going to find this very helpful. Thank you 🙂
Awesome Helena. Yes I think you will 🙂 Try the selective saturation on your M101!! 👊
AstroBackyard thank you Trevor! I will 🙂 are you active on IG messages? I could send the results there....think I sent you one a while back.
Can you please review the Celestron Starsense Explorer telescopes?!?!?!?
Oh Thank you brother, congratulations.
I thank you for this great tutorial. It will help a lot of people making their photos look even cooler!
Keep on doing your great work!
Greetings
Chris
I really like your videos but I do wish you would notch down the speed a little on the editing tutorials. Very hard to keep up and follow.
Great tutorial. Some really useful techniques.
congratulations on the 100 000 subscribers Trevor! trophy well deserved! am a huge fan from early on!! learned so much from you, thanks for the inspiration!
Hey thanks a lot Tim!! Its guys like you - that's what got me to this point! Clear skies
Are you by any chancing capturing the multiple comets?
You didn't rip the saturation slider of the screen like Dustin so your on the safe side:)
Great guide showing just how powerful photoshop can be and how the majority of us barely touch the surface of it. Also congrats in your 100k...
In the middle example you created an adjustment layer for Vibrance. How would I go about creating a new adjustment layer for the same selection?
In Photoshop you can just copy the mask. Make a new adjusment layer and while holding the alt key (option on mac) drag the layer from the vibrance layer to your new layer. Photoshop will ask you if you want to replace the existing layer so simply confirm.
This may be a stupid question but I am brand new at this, I have a piggy backed setup ( orion st 120 f/5 on the bottom with a piggybacked evostar 72 ED) would it work if I used the st 120 as an autoguiding scope since it on the bottom since i want to use the evostar as my imaging scope? again I apologize for my ignorance.
At this stage you can leave out auto guiding if your polar alignment is good. The mount tracks well in general, and you subs are just a few minutes long. If you are brand new, don't complicate things with more steps than you need.
Try getting some good 1-2 minute subs for now. Your first few outings will yield just ok results, simply because you don't know things about your gear and the process in general. Don't let that discourage you in any way. Keep it simple and 3-4 outings you come home with an hour of good data, and it is all worth it.
Once you get comfortable with your gear and the process, you can look at other steps to improve results.
Autoguiding is low on my list because I use 2 minute subs. My alignment and tracking are such that autoguiding would not help. I shoot with a DSLR and telephoto lens.
Longer subs, or higher magnification will require autoguiding, but you are not there yet.
I have an 8 inch SCT I would love to try, and then I know autoguiding will be a must.
Feel free to ask questions at anytime. I just hope the next moonless night is clear
Cheers
Are you going to capture the asteroid on 29 April???
What are we noticing with a play button symbol?
Very nice Trevor, between yourself and Dylan, my learning curve has been steep but super quick. Love what you do and really enjoy watching your videos and subscribed information material. Cheers, Bill.
Just bought an explore scientific ED127 apo with Exos 2-gt mount can't wait to play. Thanks for your inspiration and knowledge Trevor!
It amazes me that In this hobby i never stop learning, this video gave me a tool i have been looking for some time, Thanks Trevor, i will reprocess some data i have to practice... this is why you are one of my Astro Heroes!!! take care, Have fun!!!
YES! Adjustment layers! Finally! Good man, been watching your PhotoShop for a while and it's been driving me mad you haven't been using them. You can get an adjustment layer by also clicking the black and white, half and half circle at the bottom of the layers palette. Also, if you CMD (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) click on the line between the adjustment layer, it'll apply the adjustment to just the layer below it (not all layers below it). But great work sir!
Hey Trevor. Been finding your videos so useful and informative. I am going to purchase my first telescope next month and my budget is around $600. What would you advise? Been tempted with Celestron Nexstar 4SE. Greetings from the UK and keep up the great content! Alex
Great Video as always! so much useful information
My pleasure, cheers!
как обрабатывать таким же образом, но серийно, например, для таймлапс
Love it. This was so helpful.. Thank you.
Semi-related to this topic, however could you take the Red channel from a duoband filter like the Optolong L-eNhance and use it as kind of a cheaty H-Alpha filter/channel/selection for things? From my understanding of the Visible Spectrum, image capture, and Wavelengths I would think this would be possible in theory as I imagine the red channel would be pretty isolated.
Really stepping up the production quality with every tutorial. Well done!
Trevor, Congrats on the 100k+. You are an inspiration.
I have a question though. In this video, it wasn't clear how you acquired your image that you processed. Was it through One Shot Color or using Monochrome with Filters and stacked?
Thanks for the tips. I will try it step by step. Clear skies.
I spent over 11k on equipment just to realize that all the color is fake, this is the worst hobby I want to take natural pictures of reality and here I am going into photoshop like all he conspiracy theorist say.. this is a huge turn off to this hobby I may sell my equipment and take the loss cause everything about this hobby is now simply fake. you're not looking at a real color galaxy you're looking at a structure of a real galaxy and then someone putting there art into the picture its embarrassing. you're also starting with color in your images every single time I take a image no matter how long its still black and white and I have a zwo color camera which is bullshit, the fact that you have to bring a picture in to PS makes this hobby a Joke I can't believe I got sucked into this just to learn that colors aren't real and every picture you see is not the real color but added on in post processing which really means someone made a bunch of edits to the picture which takes out reality for me.. every video turtorial starts with a beautiful picture of a galaxy and then works from there, all of my 8 hour data has great structure but no rich blue color so how the hell do I post process if there no way to learn it? like how do you people learn how to do this like im trying so hard to understand how to add color to a galaxy and nothings teaching me I really just wanna give. up the whole hobby and kill myself im so disappointed in science I can't believe the retards that believe what were doing is fake are actually correct, this is the biggest turn off and I already wasted all my money I really don't wanna be alive anymmore
Galaxies and nebulae are colourful but our eyes and cameras aren't able to detect most of the colors. The edited pictures aren't fake, its just to show what it will look like if you can see the colors
I just got my first "real" camera, and im trying to learn astrophotography, so i always use your videos to learn. I also love watching all the pictures you take they are sooooo coooool!
By the time he posts the "pictureS" he takes they've been stacked and edited to the point where they only appear to be photographs. Note how he calls them images?
Your Image Processing Guide is amazing!
A year ago I wrote a doc with the most useful processing tips from your videos; I actually wanted to send it over to you in case you want to post it :D But today I saw your guide, and I instantly got it!
Congrats man, you are doing an amazing job! Since starting watching your videos like 2 years ago, I am getting more an more excited about astrophotography, I changed my entire kit: going for EQ6-R, ES127, ASI294, you know, all your recommendations :D
Hey Trevor, thanks again for another great instructional video. Bought the guide today, and it has proven to be very useful, particularly the Adobe PS stacking tips. Also, I’ve recently captured Comet Atlas 2019-Y4 and have been struggling to find the best way to create a high res video loop of the comet (like Chuck does) but in Adobe PS. Would love to hear your thoughts or see a video on that. Oh and congrats on the TH-cam award...keep the content coming!
Hi Trevor, again a great tutorial for processing astro images in PS. Even if it's sometimes too fast for me. So I have to watch it several times and this helps ! I will try it asap with my pictures !! Regards from Germany, Werner
This video is definitely Dustin approved
Thanks that’s really useful!
im new to the redcat51,trevor,what camera do you recomended
Perfect time to upload Trevor. Big fan of your work and right now I am struggling with my whirlpool galaxy post processing. Gonna do this side by side.
As usually, great advices. Thanks to you i also leapfrog in my PS knowledge.keep bringing them.
Hey Trevor! Your videos are as always super helpful, a question though. How do you recommend cleaning a DSLR camera sensor? The Amazon seller i bought it from sent it with a large grain of dust on the sensor i've not been able to get out short of just going in but with no clue what i'm doing im afraid to do so.
The real trick Trevor is getting the darn sky to clear so I can get some hours on target!!
Definitely M51 is #1 with a bullet for me this year. I got just an hour back in January and 4 hours is my minimum goal. Good tutorial. Great images. Cheers
Really cool, right point in time. Just fighting to bring my M81 shots to life... 😀
Are you available for some 1 on one processing sessions?
Yet another great tutorial! I'm not sure I'll be using this just yet (....still trying to capture good data in the first place) but this is bookmarked in my head for future use, as well as in my browser :)
just used deepskystacker the first time ever on m51...and now this...ill have to go out soon and take some more pictures!!!
That desaturate technique works well and I’ve found you can clean it up a bit by taking the masked image into camera raw and applying some noise reduction to the background as well! This almost works better in some cases.
Thanks Trevor. I learn a little something new from each video you produce. CS!
You're getting better. Thanks.
I bookmarked this video, very good Trevor! Actually excellent!
Another brilliant video Trevor, ive been following your work for two years now and I think im going to have to visit your website to learn how to get started with image processing as I have no idea where to begin tbh... taking the images is the easy part... ive only just started stacking my images in deep sky stacker...
Ive got alot of data to start this journey to creating beautiful deep space images...
You may have better results if you use the "selective color" option in "new adjustment layer". With this tool for each type of color you can modify the balance of CMY. With thay you can both increase the saturation (without loosing details) - correct the specific color and modify the luminance ( for example in M51 the brown color can have less blue and more magenta and yellow)
Thanks Trevor. Super helpful.
Big Congrats on the 100K Play button. Well deserved! Love your tutorials.
I am completely new to Deep Sky photography and just got myself Photoshop. Your videos are really helpful, thank you for making them!
Thanks for the help, but you go/talk way to fast in most of your videos I find myself pausing and rewinding you all the time.
It is very difficult to see the difference between before and after when you click the eye so quickly. Next time try waiting a few seconds between clicks.
With large files, it may still take some time for photoshop to load between before and after changes
amazing video, as always. Btw. Your Opinion on Starlink?
Anybody know if there is a different channel I can find “Bird Nerd” type content? Doesn’t look like they post to that anymore. Thanks!
Thank you, Trevor! Excellent tips and tricks tutorial with Photoshop, Nicely Done! Also saved this video to my saved folder for future reference, take care!
Great tutorial Trevor! I think you just saved my Leo Triplet image with your background desaturation trick. Thank you!
Excellent I got 8 hours over 2 nights last week. I’ve processed it in startools but I’ll give ps a go tomorrow 👍
Thanks for this tutorial. I've been struggling with my color and saturation for a while.
No, Trevor, we never saw it! Congrats!