Great vid Dylan. I’ve almost thrown in the towel with official pixinsight tutorials. Practical applications with results - and now I can dig a bit deeper.
Solid tutorial, thank you very much. I really like the pace of the workflow and how you take the time to explain everything. It really helps me learn the program rather than blindly mimicking what someone else does and hoping it turns out ok.
Thank you for doing this, which explains some of PixInsight's processes better than many other tutorials on the web. Just seeing the colour correction working so well was enough for make me buy it. Please do some more tutorials when you get the chance :)
Great video Dylan. I feel the same about the interface... I don't know how many times I wanted to apply a process and clicked on the right side instead and reset the instance. U get used to it after a while but it's a steep learning curve.
Great video Dylan. It's 2023 now and it seems everyone is migrating to PI. Its UI is very alien like but the shear power of this software and the stunning results makes learning it worthwhile. I wish it could stack and sharpen planetary videos too. I'm buying it
Thanks for showing a preview of Pixinsight. It's likely I'll never use it, I have enough to do trying to learn photoshop basics. When I follow tutorial videos I usually take notes while watching the video so I can use them to refer to later. For me it's critical I can see where you are going and what you are clicking with the mouse, that way I can follow along like painting by numbers. It helps if you can make the clicks a little slower and deliberate. Many videos are hard to follow, especially when the user is fidgeting with the cursor and moving it all around. I don't mind having a small video of yourself showing, but it blocks part of the screen and anything you click behind it. Anyway, thank you for the intro and it's probably likely if you are going to continue helping with learning Pixinsight maybe I'll make an effort to try and learn more about it, at least to a point when you can transfer to Photoshop. Actually, I didn't intend to watch this video, I was looking around for the one you did about ditching your guiding cable or ST4 cable? I remember it briefly from a long time ago and I sure would like to eliminate that cable, one less USB connection or telephone jack to go wrong. Is the function taken over by ASCOM?
Hey Dylan, When I try the first couple of steps: STF,BN & CC, my blacks (space) is still light grey... the colour is correct, but the overall luminance seems high. Any suggestions?
Hey Dylan, I have been looking Pixinsite tutorials, and came across your tutorials video, it's was very informative,. I am marking plans a computer and Pixinsite software this year.😊
I still can't save a TIFF that has the changes applied. When I try to save as a TIFF it tells me that it doesn't support some of the changes I've made and the TIFF output just looks dark and weird. I followed your steps (aside from the star mask part), any tips on what I could be doing wrong?
PixInsight definitely seems like it really needs some better UX. the power of it looks insane though! I need to try some of this on my images. Thanks for sharing.
great tutorial vid Dylan. I haven't really done any post processing yet so don't have any learning in any of the main apps so I thinking of starting with PIS and put my energies into something that is primarily for Astrophotography. I wont confuse myself with bits n pieces from everything else.... Now to look for your other vids on the same subject...
Great tutorial!! Thank you. Have you thought of making a tutorial for processing narrow band imaging? Stacking, alignment and stretching with proper color mapping discussion would be very good to have as there are few resources on the web for this application. Thanks!!
Not a bad tutorial ... but your Picture-in-Picture is obscuring what you are doing on the left side of the Screen Transfer Function. You didn't see that when you were making the video?
I have yet to use it. The video lost me at about the 5 minute mark. To call that "unintuitive" is an understatement for people who have never even used PhotoShop. From my present small experience, I can see that if I hit the wrong setting and caused something on the screen that I didn't like and didn't understand, I wouldn't know how to undo what I did. I likewise wouldn't be able to judge where to slide any of the graphs or adjust the numbers. Thanks for trying to show us. I would have perhaps got through the first 3 steps, and then left it at that. I tried processing subs just in APP, and wasn't left with a result that I would show anyone other than for them to tell me what I did wrong.
Hello Dylan O'Donnell For those who have few databases of post-processing of images. (I really do not know). What program to start Pixinsight, Photoshop or AstroArt7? I would like to have some guidelines because the budget is not too big, and I am "building the rig". Sky-Watcher EQ6-R PRO, William Optics Zenithstar 61 APO; Canon 400D Astro modified; guide Sky-Watcher EvoGuide 50ED Guidescope & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini Bundle or ZWO Mini Finder-Guider & ASI120MM-Mini Bundle, what do you think? Is it a good base to start? Sorry for my English, but it's not my native language, I'm Portuguese. Hugs and thanks for your videos.
Thanks for your kind words! I started on nebulosity because it’s cheap but pixinsight and photoshop is an amazing combo just expensive. Lots of tutorials for these on this channel :)
Break the channels into layers and make adjustments to them individually (levels, curves etc) tweak blending etc. copy layers so my changes aren’t destructive and can be rolled back per layer etc .. the art :) I leave the science side to PI
Hello Dylan, very nice video - thank you. The only thing that annoyed me was - no offense - your little insert at the bottom left corner, which hid some of the things you were showing. Maybe next time ?
Great video. Look forward to seeing more. This is a bit steep for me right now as far as price, I have nebulosity and PS, what other options do I have for dark subtraction, alignment, stacking, and post processing. Do you have a start to finish tutorial?
Nebulosity does alignment and stacking fine (see my other tute about stacking the milky way - same process). It also handles dark subtraction great too with its preprocessing stuff. It just doesn't handle auto-stretching very well. Thanks for the feedback!
I didn't realize this is from 2016! Wow, I have a lot of catch up to do. Great video. Thanks for always very informative and educational content. I didn't quite catch what you used to stack the image. I am sure I can figure it out, but maybe you can reply with this info. By the way, I missed your catch phrase at the end "Nothing matters" :)
Dylan maybe you can help me out. I just started using Pixinsight and when using subframe selector I get warnings with the word Deprecated format .fts. I cant find how to stop this , and it sometimes crashes . I have looked everyplace and cant find answer. Can you help. BTW see you at NEAF
Heya! That warning should crash or stop anything but if it is just make sure you use the new xISF format instead for all output / saving .. it’s much better than fits which is a glorified folder not a real standard.
Steve Hand not sure about that particular tool but most of the ones that generate files have the options to change the extension. Change it from .fits to .xisf .... no idea why they didn’t make that a drop down. Weirdest UI ever.
Sadly, it’s not really for a beginner. He already stacked/calibrated the images without explaining how (in Pixinsight or otherwise) and he’s using LRGB. Most beginners use a one shot color camera.
If it's important to have your face in the video, you should shift the screen capture to the right because you're blocking part of the subject matter. Maybe do a separate video of you (put a link below) and remove it from this video.
Great vid Dylan. I’ve almost thrown in the towel with official pixinsight tutorials. Practical applications with results - and now I can dig a bit deeper.
Solid tutorial, thank you very much. I really like the pace of the workflow and how you take the time to explain everything.
It really helps me learn the program rather than blindly mimicking what someone else does and hoping it turns out ok.
i had Pixinsight for a while, tried some things which works out , a bit. but your way of working is much better. thanks for the nice tutorial!
Wow, just found this wonderful old gem of yours.
This was my first video I chose to start learning PI. Thank you and keep them coming!
Thank you for doing this, which explains some of PixInsight's processes better than many other tutorials on the web. Just seeing the colour correction working so well was enough for make me buy it. Please do some more tutorials when you get the chance :)
John Watson thanks man! I might do another one soon thanks to your feedback!
Great video Dylan. I feel the same about the interface... I don't know how many times I wanted to apply a process and clicked on the right side instead and reset the instance. U get used to it after a while but it's a steep learning curve.
Old video, still useful, you are master of making cool and easy something which is objectively quite tedious. Have a wonderful new year 2021!
I love these pixinsite for dummies videos. Thanks Dylan!
I’m just learning PI. I’ve watched other videos, this was very informative. I always love your videos.
Great video Dylan. It's 2023 now and it seems everyone is migrating to PI. Its UI is very alien like but the shear power of this software and the stunning results makes learning it worthwhile. I wish it could stack and sharpen planetary videos too. I'm buying it
It’s worth it 100% ! I still use auto stakkert for planets though !
Pix has wavelets, exact same as registax. theyre under MMT/MLT
Thanks for showing a preview of Pixinsight. It's likely I'll never use it, I have enough to do trying to learn photoshop basics. When I follow tutorial videos I usually take notes while watching the video so I can use them to refer to later. For me it's critical I can see where you are going and what you are clicking with the mouse, that way I can follow along like painting by numbers. It helps if you can make the clicks a little slower and deliberate. Many videos are hard to follow, especially when the user is fidgeting with the cursor and moving it all around. I don't mind having a small video of yourself showing, but it blocks part of the screen and anything you click behind it. Anyway, thank you for the intro and it's probably likely if you are going to continue helping with learning Pixinsight maybe I'll make an effort to try and learn more about it, at least to a point when you can transfer to Photoshop.
Actually, I didn't intend to watch this video, I was looking around for the one you did about ditching your guiding cable or ST4 cable? I remember it briefly from a long time ago and I sure would like to eliminate that cable, one less USB connection or telephone jack to go wrong. Is the function taken over by ASCOM?
Another great video, had zero idea what I was doing with this software and you came to the rescue! thanks buddy!
Great tutorial..I have it bookmarked for studying more closely. Your presentation is remarkable. Thank you so much.
cheers Randall!
Super handy! This software is so tricky to understand. Could you do a tutorial on how lrgb images are stacked in the software?
The image looks great. What would one possibly do to process it further in photoshop
Hey Dylan, When I try the first couple of steps: STF,BN & CC, my blacks (space) is still light grey... the colour is correct, but the overall luminance seems high. Any suggestions?
Hey Dylan,
I have been looking Pixinsite tutorials, and came across your tutorials video, it's was very informative,.
I am marking plans a computer and Pixinsite software this year.😊
I still can't save a TIFF that has the changes applied. When I try to save as a TIFF it tells me that it doesn't support some of the changes I've made and the TIFF output just looks dark and weird. I followed your steps (aside from the star mask part), any tips on what I could be doing wrong?
PixInsight definitely seems like it really needs some better UX. the power of it looks insane though! I need to try some of this on my images. Thanks for sharing.
great tutorial vid Dylan. I haven't really done any post processing yet so don't have any learning in any of the main apps so I thinking of starting with PIS and put my energies into something that is primarily for Astrophotography. I wont confuse myself with bits n pieces from everything else.... Now to look for your other vids on the same subject...
Great tutorial!! Thank you. Have you thought of making a tutorial for processing narrow band imaging? Stacking, alignment and stretching with proper color mapping discussion would be very good to have as there are few resources on the web for this application. Thanks!!
Thank you. My stretches are never green for some reason.
Not a bad tutorial ... but your Picture-in-Picture is obscuring what you are doing on the left side of the Screen Transfer Function. You didn't see that when you were making the video?
I have yet to use it. The video lost me at about the 5 minute mark. To call that "unintuitive" is an understatement for people who have never even used PhotoShop. From my present small experience, I can see that if I hit the wrong setting and caused something on the screen that I didn't like and didn't understand, I wouldn't know how to undo what I did. I likewise wouldn't be able to judge where to slide any of the graphs or adjust the numbers. Thanks for trying to show us. I would have perhaps got through the first 3 steps, and then left it at that. I tried processing subs just in APP, and wasn't left with a result that I would show anyone other than for them to tell me what I did wrong.
Hello Dylan O'Donnell
For those who have few databases of post-processing of images. (I really do not know). What program to start Pixinsight, Photoshop or AstroArt7? I would like to have some guidelines because the budget is not too big, and I am "building the rig".
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R PRO, William Optics Zenithstar 61 APO; Canon 400D Astro modified; guide Sky-Watcher EvoGuide 50ED Guidescope & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini Bundle or ZWO Mini Finder-Guider & ASI120MM-Mini Bundle, what do you think? Is it a good base to start?
Sorry for my English, but it's not my native language, I'm Portuguese.
Hugs and thanks for your videos.
Thanks for your kind words! I started on nebulosity because it’s cheap but pixinsight and photoshop is an amazing combo just expensive. Lots of tutorials for these on this channel :)
More of this please!
Pixinsight seems quite capable, so what do you do in Photoshop as a follow up?
Break the channels into layers and make adjustments to them individually (levels, curves etc) tweak blending etc. copy layers so my changes aren’t destructive and can be rolled back per layer etc .. the art :) I leave the science side to PI
Thanks a lot for this video. Very helpful.
superb intro tutorial
Can you please tell me where the nuke button is ?
Hello Dylan, very nice video - thank you. The only thing that annoyed me was - no offense - your little insert at the bottom left corner, which hid some of the things you were showing. Maybe next time ?
Thanks Dylan, very much appreciated
Great video. Look forward to seeing more. This is a bit steep for me right now as far as price, I have nebulosity and PS, what other options do I have for dark subtraction, alignment, stacking, and post processing. Do you have a start to finish tutorial?
Nebulosity does alignment and stacking fine (see my other tute about stacking the milky way - same process). It also handles dark subtraction great too with its preprocessing stuff. It just doesn't handle auto-stretching very well. Thanks for the feedback!
you use PS for stretching i suppose? any tutorial on that would be AWESOME
I didn't realize this is from 2016! Wow, I have a lot of catch up to do. Great video. Thanks for always very informative and educational content. I didn't quite catch what you used to stack the image. I am sure I can figure it out, but maybe you can reply with this info. By the way, I missed your catch phrase at the end "Nothing matters" :)
Everything is blurry in your video. I can't read any of the things your are clicking on in Pixinsight. :(
Try setting the resolution of the video to HD 1080
great intro. PI can be so frustrating when you get to it for first time...
This was great! Thanks!
Dylan maybe you can help me out. I just started using Pixinsight and when using subframe selector I get warnings with the word Deprecated format .fts. I cant find how to stop this , and it sometimes crashes . I have looked everyplace and cant find answer. Can you help. BTW see you at NEAF
Heya! That warning should crash or stop anything but if it is just make sure you use the new xISF format instead for all output / saving .. it’s much better than fits which is a glorified folder not a real standard.
And yes.. see you at NEAF!
@@DylanODonnell yes but how do I stop it , can't find it anyplace
Steve Hand not sure about that particular tool but most of the ones that generate files have the options to change the extension. Change it from .fits to .xisf .... no idea why they didn’t make that a drop down. Weirdest UI ever.
@@DylanODonnell ok thanks for the come back , if I don't speak to you have a safe trip over , will be at NEAF Sat. 6 the 6th
Thank you for this👍
Thanks Dylan !!!
Sadly, it’s not really for a beginner. He already stacked/calibrated the images without explaining how (in Pixinsight or otherwise) and he’s using LRGB. Most beginners use a one shot color camera.
If it's important to have your face in the video, you should shift the screen capture to the right because you're blocking part of the subject matter. Maybe do a separate video of you (put a link below) and remove it from this video.
Huge thanks! PI was making me feel really dumb. It just isn't intuitive to me.
it is good stuff, but sound setting in this video is terrible.
I can't hear your videos
If there are Chinese subtitles, I will recommend you to my partner
I have no idea how I'd get Chinese subtitles! I wish I could help!
@@DylanODonnell there's auto translate
If you can have Chinese subtitles!
the material may be cool, but do you really think that your image was so important here? Your face obscures important elements in the video