Re: [APML] rescanned and processed IC1396

["Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Excellent image Jeff.
It does look to be a bit too blue in the highlights. I downloaded it(hope
you don't mind) and played around with it in PS.  Went into color balance
than added 12 units of yellow to the highlights.  Try it and see what you
think.

Chris


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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Ball <jeffball@zoominternet.net>
To: Astro-Photo <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:47 AM
Subject: [APML] rescanned and processed IC1396


>Hello all,
>I am giving the old Nikon 8000 a workout.  I rescanned at 14bit and
utilized
>the GEM software.  I am very impressed with the GEM software.  At least on
>these E200 push processed slides that were very thin, the GEM did a great
>job of reducing the grain and preserving resolution.  I used a setting of 1
>out of 4.  The GEM is part of the Nikon software package and is packaged
>with other scanning software.  After much experience with SGBNR, BGSmooth,
>and selective gaussian blurring on my own, I am pretty confident that the
>GEM worked much better than any of these others would have.  I am thinking
>of rescanning some old PPF stuff to see what GEM can do with it.  I also
>went with a natural look and worked with what I had and did not force the
>processing.  I still have a lot to learn with the software.  I am trying to
>find the right balance between utilizing the Nikon software and relying on
>Photoshop.  Oh yeh, I used Photoshop with 16 bit(?) mode<g> for curves.  I
>think it does make a difference<g>
>
>http://www.astro-photography.com/ic1396.htm
>
>Jeff Ball
>
>
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