Saturn Processed
Jul 20, 2015 15:22:38 #
This is my last Saturn shot of June 20th or so with my
Nikon D800E, 17mm Lens on my Meade 8" Telescope
All mounted on the Celestron Advanced VX Mount.
This 17mm Baader eyepiece really pulled in some detail.
I can not find the original and EXIF data anywhere.
I did stack in DSStacker & process in Photoshop, Lightroom and Topaz Detail3.
Two different processing jobs
Craig
Nikon D800E, 17mm Lens on my Meade 8" Telescope
All mounted on the Celestron Advanced VX Mount.
This 17mm Baader eyepiece really pulled in some detail.
I can not find the original and EXIF data anywhere.
I did stack in DSStacker & process in Photoshop, Lightroom and Topaz Detail3.
Two different processing jobs
Craig
Jul 20, 2015 20:41:40 #
That is extremely clean for being projection imaging. Were these stills or vid frames? Your technique is apparently growing by leaps and bounds. I like the contrast in the second but the color of the first.
Well done
Matthew
Well done
Matthew
Jul 20, 2015 21:00:18 #
Jul 20, 2015 21:00:54 #
Oknoder wrote:
That is extremely clean for being projection imaging. Were these stills or vid frames? Your technique is apparently growing by leaps and bounds. I like the contrast in the second but the color of the first.
Well done
Matthew
Well done
Matthew
Thank you very much Matthew, I could not get either one with the good qualities of both combined.
Craig
Jul 20, 2015 21:05:33 #
You could make a composition of both images in Photoshop using layer masking, if ya wanted. Either way pretty cool.i
Jul 20, 2015 21:07:55 #
Oknoder wrote:
You could make a composition of both images in Photoshop using layer masking, if ya wanted. Either way pretty cool.i
Houston we have a problem I don't know how to do layers or masks :thumbdown:
Jul 20, 2015 21:46:10 #
Here is what I came up with, even though you could do much much better with the high res images. With only using PS here is what I did.
1) Open both images
2) Select File/Scripts/Load files into stack
3) With Saturn on bottom and the selected layer, Edit/Canvas Size, I enlarged so I can enlarge the moon image that was a different scale.
4) With moon image layer selected and its opacity set at about 40%, select Edit/Free transform, I rotated and stretched the image till the blurred out oval was about the size I thought it should be, just a guess though.
5) With the moon image selected I select the mask Icon (which is a box with a circle in it, below the list of layers) This creates a pure white mask image, it is invisible in the image though. Select this mask so it has a box around it in the highlighted layer panel.
5) With a black paint brush I Painted/erased over the blown out image of Saturn to leave only the moons showing through the mask.
Tips:
White reveals
Black conceals
Layers and masks are the only reason I still use PS, otherwise I would strictly stick to Lightroom.
Hope this brief tutorial helps a little,
Matthew
1) Open both images
2) Select File/Scripts/Load files into stack
3) With Saturn on bottom and the selected layer, Edit/Canvas Size, I enlarged so I can enlarge the moon image that was a different scale.
4) With moon image layer selected and its opacity set at about 40%, select Edit/Free transform, I rotated and stretched the image till the blurred out oval was about the size I thought it should be, just a guess though.
5) With the moon image selected I select the mask Icon (which is a box with a circle in it, below the list of layers) This creates a pure white mask image, it is invisible in the image though. Select this mask so it has a box around it in the highlighted layer panel.
5) With a black paint brush I Painted/erased over the blown out image of Saturn to leave only the moons showing through the mask.
Tips:
White reveals
Black conceals
Layers and masks are the only reason I still use PS, otherwise I would strictly stick to Lightroom.
Hope this brief tutorial helps a little,
Matthew
Jul 20, 2015 23:18:05 #
Oknoder wrote:
Here is what I came up with, even though you could... (show quote)
That is really cool the way you put that together Matthew.
I need to play with Photoshop more, I use Lightroom a lot.
Craig
Jul 20, 2015 23:41:40 #
IMHO lightroom is just a much friendlier GUI (graphical user interface) for ACR. From LR you can select all the imagesyou want to stack, right click/edit in/PS as layers, cuts out a action or two.
100 ways to skin a cat.
Matthew
100 ways to skin a cat.
Matthew
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