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Re: [APML] M42 is back!
Jose,
You hit the nail on the head. Masking in the core of M42 allowed Grant to show it without being overexposed. Jerry Lodriguss published a superb article "Combining Exposures with Layer Masks " in S&T Jan 2001. The article is available in S&T's on-line archive. There is also info on it in Jerry's excellent web site http://www.astropix.com. By following Jerry's cookbook instructions, it will help you learn Photoshop layers, masks, curves, etc, which will help you tremendously for using other processing techniques.
I also used a variation of the technique here:
http://starmatt.com/gallery/astro/sword.html
Matt
At 01:46 PM 11/16/2002 -0500, Jose Miguel Benito Huete wrote:
>Grant and Matt, what exactly is a masked composite? I have seen your M42 shot and is
>superb. I hace the same picture with a Tak FS102 and E200 film, but is a single shot and
>the inner parts of the nebula are overexpossed.
>Jose Benito
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