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Mar 22, 2017 18:52:25   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
Some day our skies will clear and can get new images, until, just have to play around with reprocessing older images. I can never get the color to be the same once I leave Photoshop. Maybe setting somewhere in PS???

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Mar 22, 2017 19:27:23   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
Europa wrote:
Some day our skies will clear and can get new images, until, just have to play around with reprocessing older images. I can never get the color to be the same once I leave Photoshop. Maybe setting somewhere in PS???

Beautiful shots Brian. I don't seem to lose any color in Lightroom. I've never been able to learn PS. I need to take a class at the C College. I would guess there are YouTubes out there somewhere. Did you use the QHY12? What setup, camera and processes.
Craig

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Mar 22, 2017 19:41:18   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
CraigFair wrote:
Beautiful shots Brian. I don't seem to lose any color in Lightroom. I've never been able to learn PS. I need to take a class at the C College. I would guess there are YouTubes out there somewhere. Did you use the QHY12? What setup, camera and processes.
Craig


Thanks Craig. I took these from my backyard at the end of December, with my normal, QHY12/Rasa...it was 107 lights of 180 seconds. PP in Photoshop. The color thing is always difficult, when its in PS it looks one way, then when I open it, or upload, the color and brightness is different. Sometimes takes me a dozen tries saving it with the misc changes to get it took look better outside of PS.

I figure there must be some setting in PS that is giving it a different look, just have to figure out how/where to change it. Sometimes, I just save to my iPad and fix the color/bright adjustments from there, then upload them. But I think it may lose some details when I do that.

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Mar 22, 2017 21:15:17   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
Europa wrote:
Thanks Craig. I took these from my backyard at the end of December, with my normal, QHY12/Rasa...it was 107 lights of 180 seconds. PP in Photoshop. The color thing is always difficult, when its in PS it looks one way, then when I open it, or upload, the color and brightness is different. Sometimes takes me a dozen tries saving it with the misc changes to get it took look better outside of PS.

I figure there must be some setting in PS that is giving it a different look, just have to figure out how/where to change it. Sometimes, I just save to my iPad and fix the color/bright adjustments from there, then upload them. But I think it may lose some details when I do that.
Thanks Craig. I took these from my backyard at the... (show quote)

In your save-as do you have the ICC Profile: Adobe 1998 box checked. Does that make any difference???
Craig

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Mar 22, 2017 22:43:53   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Beautiful Brian!

You really are bringing out the subtle delicate parts.

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Mar 23, 2017 00:04:10   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
CraigFair wrote:
In your save-as do you have the ICC Profile: Adobe 1998 box checked. Does that make any difference???
Craig


Yes, it is checked. If I check it, it looks the same.

While I am in Photoshop, it is brighter and not over saturated. After I save it, it is darker and way, way, way over saturated. So I keep going into Photoshop and reducing the color and brightening, save, and start making adjustments again until the saved image looks good.

Just seems odd that Photoshop is off compared to everything else, and of course Photoshop is where I do all my processing.

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Mar 23, 2017 00:04:50   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
SonnyE wrote:
Beautiful Brian!

You really are bringing out the subtle delicate parts.


Thanks Sonny, I'm sure I'll get bored and go back to some other oldie, but goodies.

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Mar 23, 2017 00:19:36   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Wouldn't blame you.
At 7 PMish here Lightening, Thunder, rain, and hail.

Sheesh!

I still like your images, I think they are Beautificent!
I like it when the colors pop.

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Mar 23, 2017 00:21:24   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
SonnyE wrote:
Wouldn't blame you.
At 7 PMish here Lightening, Thunder, rain, and hail.

Sheesh!


Wow, somewhat clear here.

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Mar 23, 2017 00:23:21   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Tomorrow night may be nice.

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Mar 23, 2017 14:39:50   #
nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina
 
Europa wrote:
Some day our skies will clear and can get new images, until, just have to play around with reprocessing older images. I can never get the color to be the same once I leave Photoshop. Maybe setting somewhere in PS???


Well done! I spent five different days on this animal and got loads of data then "F"ed it up in post processing. All Narrowband with twice the Ha, and Oiii, than Sii. I need to revisit this data and redo. My stars are all blue and the flower is over saturated but the detail is some of my best.

I took this with the new ASI1600MM-cool camera. Actually my first images taken when I got the camera.



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Mar 23, 2017 16:18:14   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
nikonshooter wrote:
Well done! I spent five different days on this animal and got loads of data then "F"ed it up in post processing. All Narrowband with twice the Ha, and Oiii, than Sii. I need to revisit this data and redo. My stars are all blue and the flower is over saturated but the detail is some of my best.

I took this with the new ASI1600MM-cool camera. Actually my first images taken when I got the camera.


Very nice...isn't the use of filters going to give you the blue stars?

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Mar 23, 2017 16:54:28   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
nikonshooter wrote:
Well done! I spent five different days on this animal and got loads of data then "F"ed it up in post processing. All Narrowband with twice the Ha, and Oiii, than Sii. I need to revisit this data and redo. My stars are all blue and the flower is over saturated but the detail is some of my best.

I took this with the new ASI1600MM-cool camera. Actually my first images taken when I got the camera.

Great detail Ed.
Craig

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Mar 23, 2017 20:52:18   #
nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina
 
Europa wrote:
Very nice...isn't the use of filters going to give you the blue stars?


No....I think if I knew what I was doing my stars would be their original color. But......it was my choice to take 40 Ha - 6 minutes, 40 OIII, 6 minutes, and 25 SII. I used the RED channel for Ha, the Green Channel for OIII, and Blue Channel for SII. When I converted to an RGB image - then I color balanced and the image went to hell from that point on. I got the idea from Warren Keller (guru in PixInsight) then added the Luminosity frames 40, 180 seconds long. I am going to get some more SII although I don't think the Rosette has much of this....and then I plan to use the Hubble Palette and see if the image improves. But the detail are there which tells me the data is as good as I am capable of getting - I am just a newbie to narrowband post processing and ...there are a lot of things that I need to figure out. I feel like I am just starting out all over again imaging.

We have had some clear skies but I have been busy with college basketball - SC was playing in Greenville SC in the NCAA Tournament last weekend and I covered the games for our local ESPN affiliate which killed my last 9 days and nights. Clouds and rain are hear now - well the rain is coming this weekend and I have not looked into next week but it is getting warmer and unfortunately, the nights will be getting shorter....and dark, later. I don't like summer!

I did invest in a Starlight Feather Touch focuser for my Newt....and motorized it with the Starlight kit - great people at Starlight BTW - Wayne, with Starlight, spent an hour with me on the phone on two different occasions to help me get it up and running in Sequence Generator Pro. I didn't realize just how out of focused my images were.......now, this contraption can focus as often as I choose, between shots, between filters, ..at set intervals, whenever.... while I sit in front of my computer and scratch my ..lls.

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Mar 23, 2017 20:53:17   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Wow Ed!
It's like 3D TV.
I think I like "over-saturated".
It just appeals to my eye peals.

Clear here tonight. Watch out world, Sonny is set up.

Yeah, right....
Grabbing whatever is offered. I want my monies worth.
All the rest go under the delete key.

(Hoping the clear skies, after the recent rains, offer up some great clarity)

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