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Re: [APML] Redo- Sagittarius - M8 to M17
Hey Carlos,
--- "Carlos Milovic F." <cmilovic@yahoo.es> wrote:
> And my artistic interpretation is...
> Well, it is not yet so defined. I just follow some guidelines (not in
> that order):
> - Reveal as much faint features as possible.
> - Keep the feeling of differing brightness of the objects (i.e. M42
> is always brighter in the center... and M42 itself is the brighter
> DSO in the constellation, for example.) In that sense, I try not to
> "tell lies".
> - Don't oversaturate stars or bright objects: don't clip the
> histogram, just distribute the levels in another way.
> - Destroy the noise.
> - Slight use of wavelets to enhance large scale features (I am far
> behind Vicent in that field).
> - Obtain an uniform background, almost neutral, with just a bit of
> blue hue.
> - Show rich, "saturated colors" in the stars (not saturated data...
> don't know if you got the idea) and try to keep a gaussian like
> profile.
> - Don't touch the hue of the objects!!! If everything is going
> allright, I believe in the color balance of the film emulsion. After
> all, wich is the "correct" color? I don't wanna make photometry, just
> a beatiful image.
>
> So, that's what I keep in mind when I'm processing my images. Not
> always succesfull ;-)
Very interesting. My goal is simply to end up with something that is
not too terribly ugly. And I'm hardly ever sucessful. 8-)
> Don't worry! It is just a matter of practice. I played with PS since
> release 2.5, and I grew up between several computers.
> And now that you menction it, I bet that this day is closer than you
> think... or, do you register your images in PS? This is something
> like a punishment, and the reason why RegiStar is so widely used
> (btw... Why is it so expensive?).
Oh, I worry. No, I use RS, I think. Recent comments have made me wonder
if I have 'really' been combining images in RS, or not. When I work up
the nerve, I will post to the list asking for a more detailed
explanantion of what goes on in 'image combining', and registering.
Alan
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