Re: [APML] 2nd Success with new E-160 !

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

Hi Alan,
    Yes I'm using Photoshop. I think your right. The image could benefit
somewhat from a little star shaping. I'll try it and see what happens!
Thanks!
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: <aljordan@gwi.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:49 AM
Subject: RE: [APML] 2nd Success with new E-160 !


> Hi Jim,
>
> The processing looks pretty good to me because you haven't blown out the
> detail so much that you lose the nice gradations in the nebulousity.
>
> Are you using Photoshop for the processing?  One trick I learned from Matt
> Bendaniel's web site is to do an initial adjustment of the levels so
> nothing is cut off, and then use the magic wand to select the stars (use a
> tolerance of about 60 and make sure that contiguous is not checked).  You
> can then invert the selection and choose layer->new adjustment
> layer->curves (or levels).  You can then play around with the curves and
> levels of the nebulousity and sky background without blowing out the stars
> too much, which helps keep the stars small.  The nice thing about this
> technique is that you can readjust the levels later if you save the image
> as a psd file.
>
> I have learned quite a bit about processing astrophotos just by checking
> out Chuck Vaughn's, then Jerry Logriguss', then Matt Bendaniel's web
sites.
> They all have very good information and provide quite a service to the
> community.
>
> Alan
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Jim Ives flyboy9990@earthlink.net
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 23:14:55 -0400
> To: astro-photo@seds.org
> Subject: [APML] 2nd Success with new E-160 !
>
>
> This is my second successful shot with the Takahashi E160! It's NGC7000.
>     I recorded quite a bit of detail on the (2) 45min exposures but I
think
> my processing technique was sub-standard. I would appreciate any
> suggestions of processing this photo. This is my 3rd attempt at processing
> it and I still don't feel I have it quite right.
> http://flyboy999.freeyellow.com/Nebula/Nan1.htm
>
> Thanks!
> Jim Ives
>
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