One of the easiest ways to remove gradients from your astrophotography image in Adobe Photoshop is to use the Gradient XTerminator plugin. This tool allows you to select the area of the sky you want to extract gradients from and choose the aggressiveness of the tool. For this image, I found...
In this deep sky image processing tutorial, I’ll be combining all of the data I was able to collect on theOrion Nebulathis winter. This step-by-step tutorial should be useful to anyone processing a bright nebula with Adobe Photoshop. As we transition into spring, a new array of deep-sk...
Nebulae and galaxies are much less bright than the brightest stars. In astrophotography, it is the dark part of the image that we want to highlight. The “tone stretching” allows for emphasis the dark tones compared to light tones.Once...
Here is a crop of the galaxies themselves. I've used Photoshop, Startools, Pixinsight, and AstroPixelProcessor before. There's a reason I keep coming back to Pixinsight. In my opinion, the versatility it offers is unrivaled when considering software for processing astronomical images. An extra...
In this article, author talks about imaging of stars and nebulae under astrophotography by using software applications. He discusses several facts which includes need of special attention foravoiding overpowering of nebulae and galaxies, use of software application like Adobe Photoshop and Imageplus for...
RawTherapee offers distinct advantages over other raw converters I have tested, producing images with smaller stars, color to the cores of stars, even saturated stars, finer detail in nebulae and galaxies, and lower apparent noise. The Night Photography Series: ...
That by itself works great for starnetted nebulae, but for stars and galaxies I use a colorspace collapse correction (from XYZ space) that forces the color palette to be more Planckian. For saturation boost I use asinh2in Siril, which yields a better outcome than just an inverse gamma (an...
Nebulae and galaxies are much less bright than the brightest stars. In astrophotography, it is the dark part of the image that we want to highlight. The “tone stretching” allows for emphasis the dark tones compared to light tones.
Now it’s time to open the TIF file you created in Adobe Photoshop. If you are opening the Autosave.TIF file that DeepSkyStacker created on it’s own, you first need to convert the image to 16-bit, by clickingImage > Mode > 16-Bits/Channel. ...
Compared to photographing deep-sky objects, like galaxies and nebulae like I normally do,photographing planetsis a breath of fresh air. I am not a planetary imaging expert by any means, but I will share the simple steps I used to get results like the one below. The process involves recordi...