Re: [APML] Processing Challenge: LMC

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

John,

Nice! You did very well at revealing structure in the bar and in bringing out the H-II regions in the bar of the galaxy.

Matt

At 07:53 PM 5/15/2002 -0400, John Boudreau wrote:
>Here's my attempt:
>http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/apml.htm
>
>The uneven fogging of the film is a pain. I'm just not sure if there's real
>nebulosity in some sections or if just fog--- or a combination of both. This
>image is really subject to a lot of different interpretations. I don't think
>I'd do it quite the same twice. As a learning tool to share processing steps
>with others, this image has too many issues IMHO.
>
>Since the uneven fogging caused me to make so many steps besides just AV,
>it's tough to describe what I did in detail. Making an AV mask, grabbing fog
>spots with the lasso tool for localized curve corrections, Mike Cook's star
>erosion technique, and just plain 'ol fiddling with curves were done in PS6.
>
>I'm still in the early stages of learning SGBNR, and used the channels set
>to AUTO and a filter radius of .75, and the Global Filter Order set to .90
>with the truncation set near mid-point (truncation setting didn't effect it
>noticeably). All other tools were off.
>
>The image was then mildly unsharp masked in MaxIm DL.

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Matt BenDaniel
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