Re: [APML] Pleiades response to Processing Challenge: LMC

["Bert Katzung" <katzung1@attbi.com>]

A very impressive job of processing, Juan! Can you give us  more of a
tutorial on the first set of Photoshop techniques (sample background zones,
hybrid object suppression, etc)? Those are new terms for me. And
congratulations to Matt for a fantastic raw image!
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Conejero" <skycad@ctv.es>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Processing Challenge: LMC


> Matt,
>
> Here is our attempt on your LMC:
>
> For 1024x768 resolution:
> http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/APML/MattBenDaniel-LMC/en.html
> For 1280x1024 or higher:
> http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/APML/MattBenDaniel-LMC/en.1024.html
>
> Congratulations for such a magnificient shot. A really funny and teaching
> challenge as well. Let's see how do we do with Monte's challenge!
> Best regards,
> ______________________________________
> Juan Conejero, Pleiades Astrophoto Lab
> skycad@ctv.es
> http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/en.html
>
> At 21:39 14/05/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >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
> >--
> >Matt BenDaniel
> >matt@starmatt.com
> >http://starmatt.com
> >
> >
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