I’m learning so much from these videos that I’m forgetting other things. Thanks for all the info Sir! Really getting a lot of useful tips from the vids!
GradientXTerminator is excellent. I used to use it how you are but when I started following what Russell advises the quality went up. It's best to for most images, run it on the entire image at Medium, Low, balance background colour. Then after that's complete, new merged layer. Now pick the magic wand tool with a low tolerance about 5-10 and pick off the background. Use + to add to this if needed. if it gets nebula, try again or minus the selection with the lasso tool. Finally, involk the filter at High, Fine. The free way is not bad, but does delete low signal - but will likely only matter if shooting stuff like IFN. GradientXTerminator is worth it's money, every time. I also recommend StarXTerminator.
I was processing this exact galaxy last night and struggling (and swearing) because I'm still learning PS and could not for the life of me figure out the damn gradient! Thank you so much for this.
Sometimes, especially for larger galaxies, I've found it useful to remove stars first, then get rid of the galaxy. That way it can be easier to find a patch of sky near the galaxy to sample.
Really useful workflow there! I'll be going back to fix a few of my recent shots. I notice you've got NC's astronomy tools as well - do you find it useful / worth the purchase?
Thanks Matt! Yeah it’s very, very useful. Easily worth it, it only costs $22 and it was 20% off when I bought it so it worked out to cost about £15 after conversion
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I just used this PS process on a recent M51 image. Worked like a charm and tamed the background. Great info Nick!
I’m learning so much from these videos that I’m forgetting other things. Thanks for all the info Sir! Really getting a lot of useful tips from the vids!
You’re too kind, sir!
Nailed it my friend! Love Gradient XTerminator! Many thanks ....
Thank you! It’s a really powerful plug in
GradientXTerminator is excellent. I used to use it how you are but when I started following what Russell advises the quality went up. It's best to for most images, run it on the entire image at Medium, Low, balance background colour. Then after that's complete, new merged layer. Now pick the magic wand tool with a low tolerance about 5-10 and pick off the background. Use + to add to this if needed. if it gets nebula, try again or minus the selection with the lasso tool. Finally, involk the filter at High, Fine. The free way is not bad, but does delete low signal - but will likely only matter if shooting stuff like IFN. GradientXTerminator is worth it's money, every time. I also recommend StarXTerminator.
Master! Nice tutorial again Nick!
Thanks Bas!
I cannot tell you how much you've helped me with this tutorial! Honestly, this has been an amazing way to save my pictures, thank you!
Hi Nick you were dead right the other day on twitter this is exactly what i needed to watch awesome and of the same images too spooky lol
Haha yeah spooky indeed!
I don't want to sound like a sellout, but this was probably the best $50 that I've spent on this hobby.
Thanks a lot! This tutorial is going to be really helpful for me!
Excelent video. Thank you very mych.
Thank you so much dude my image of Andromeda is so much better now!
Thanks a lot for this howto! Exactly what I was looking for!
I was processing this exact galaxy last night and struggling (and swearing) because I'm still learning PS and could not for the life of me figure out the damn gradient! Thank you so much for this.
Awesome video ! I'll try on my next image your method, even though I may buy the plugin real soon. Clear skies !
The plugin does work better but i appreciate not everyone will want to spend money 🙂
So whenever doing the "free" option, I get these lines across my image. Grey lines
same
Great video and very helpful.
Can you do one on the Astronomy Tools plugin?
Thanks! Yeah I will definitely do one in the future 🙂
Super easy, thank you so much!
Great video but Color Range/Highlights is greyed out for me :-(
Sometimes, especially for larger galaxies, I've found it useful to remove stars first, then get rid of the galaxy. That way it can be easier to find a patch of sky near the galaxy to sample.
Thank you, that was very useful video due to can't use Paypal for that plugin in my country.
Impressive! Very useful to me, thank you :-)
You’re welcome!
Really useful workflow there! I'll be going back to fix a few of my recent shots. I notice you've got NC's astronomy tools as well - do you find it useful / worth the purchase?
Thanks Matt! Yeah it’s very, very useful. Easily worth it, it only costs $22 and it was 20% off when I bought it so it worked out to cost about £15 after conversion
Absolutely worth it, I got it for 16$ and it's like magic
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