Re: [APML] Processing Challenge: LMC (I guess I'm first)

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

Daniel,

Please tell us what you did in detail.

I want to reprocess the image, adding in your tips.

Matt

At 11:21 PM 5/14/2002 -0700, Daniel Reyna wrote:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~dreyna14/lmc.jpg
>
>Alright Matt, here's my inital results and boy what a pain in my ass!!!
>That vignetting was the worst, the color cast wasn't as hard.  The hardest
>part for me was the color balance of the younger stars in the galaxy.  The
>image became quite noisy very quickly and I did a little noise reduction so
>my posted image may slightly fuzzy.  The magenta tint on the upper right and
>lower left of the galaxy was also a complete pain.  Overall I don't think
>it's too bad considering that I haven't been doing this for very long, what
>do you think???  With more work I think I might be able improve it a bit but
>Star Wars comes out tomorrow at midnight and I won't be able to work on
>anything for a couple days.  I'll be spending all my spare time at the movie
>theater.  Yup, I'm a nerd.
>
>Daniel
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Matt BenDaniel" <matt@starmatt.com>
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:39 PM
>Subject: [APML] Processing Challenge: LMC
>
>
>> Below is a URL to an unprocessed 8.5MB TIFF of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
>Also below is a link to a processed version of the image. I chose this image
>because I could not make it look as nice as I want. I am hoping that y'all
>will show me a thing or two with it. That said, this is a difficult image.
>It has major vignetting and red fogging (probably from film age and or
>humidity). If you're new to image processing, this is a tough image to start
>with.
>>
>> Because there is some nice stuff on the edges, I'm hoping that you won't
>crop your version.
>>
>> One thing I don't have yet is SGBNR or Grain Surgery. I think that would
>help this one a lot.
>>
>> You know that if you do a good job with it, the folks on the APML
>(especially me) will want to know what you did in gory detail.
>>
>> I found that WinZip did not compress the file very much, so I didn't
>bother with it. If you're on a 56K modem, it will take at least half an hour
>to download. I downloaded the image and opened it in Photoshop to test its
>validity.
>>
>> http://world.std.com/~mattb/lmc.tif
>>
>> http://world.std.com/~mattb/gallery/astro/lmc.html
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