Re: [APML] Canyon composite

["John C. Mirtle" <jmirtle@shaw.ca>]

Thanks Chris;
    I have to try this. I have a few good shots from Zion National Park
which might work well with this. If successful, I will post the results.
Thanks!

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Canyon composite


Thanks Stan, Mike C, Mike D, Jim, John and Stan!

John -  Sure.  Here's the quick and dirty version.
- I took the milky way image as the background, adjusted the saturation and
contrast
- Sky in the daylight shot was removed by using the Lasso tool which
selected the sky only
- Sky was cut from the daylight shot, resulting image was left with only the
canyon walls etc.
- Daylight image was used as Layer 1 and moved to the desired location over
the star field
- Daylight image was adjusted for brightness and contrast
- Flattened the image
- Used the lasso tool to select the rim of the canyon and then used the blur
function to soften the edge between the sky and rock.
- Final brightness, contrast and saturation was adjusted

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
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