Trevor you are a genius. Have used Select and Mask for composites and played a bit with it for Astro but never thought about two passes with the mask. You and Dylan O’Donnell make astrophotography so exciting for us mere mortals... my heart is singing!
Trevor, what a pleasure to see an instructional style video like you used to make rather than the advertising style video where I feel like you are selling products. Videos like this are what brought me to your channel originally.
Great video Trevor I'm looking forward to trying it. For you Pixinsight users the equal to this would be your "RangeSelection" mask under your processes.
Wow ! Learned a lot on that one Trevor . I usually use Light Room ( wide field Milky Way , moon etc . ) and have little to no experience with PS. Just acquired Star Adventurer for tracking and I’m eager to try PS. Thanks Trevor
Awesome Trevor. I will be trying this out if it ever clears up again and I am able to image something. These days I use PI for initial analysis, stacking, background neutralization, some noise reduction, combining LRGB and narrowband images, some stretching, some star reduction and then use PS for more of the same. I am not purest of either program and see no reason to choose one over the other. I have found both programs can do the same thing, it is just how easy is it to do. PI does range masks but I do like the simpler control PS has to offer. I have been doing the color range method in PS with the 'ants'. I didn't know you can make them go away. Thanks for sharing - Cheers
Nice work Trevor. I checked and most of this capability appears to be present in Photoshop CS6 as well, though not put together as a "tool". Just an FYI for people with older copies of PShop running.
Thank you Trevor for this tutorial. I was so disheartened between modifying my camera because to capture more H Alpha on my stock d800 or buying new Camera.I did not want to buy a new full frame to modify it as my filters are all for FF. Since its a new hobby, I do not gave the budget. Great tutorial.
Trevor, I feel your pain with the weather lately. I'm in New England and it's been sucky for weeks now. Just wanted to thank you for this Ps tutorial video as that is an area I'm still trying to get used to with my own astrophotos. If you have any other tips and tricks I'd love to see more videos on this subject. Keep it up!
Very interresting! I will defiately have a look at maybe finishing off my pixinsight images in PS. Masking is one of the things I find most difficult in PixInsight, and it just seems so much more intuitive in the way you do it here. Good video Trevor!
Great video...PI has a more limited version of this called 'range selection' which works, but this seems like it offers a greater range of control for fine tuning. I'll definitely give this a shot moving forward when it comes to final saturation/contrast adjustments. Weather in northeast US has been abysmal too...one clear night since a week before NEAF, and the nights are only getting shorter. The FOMO is real.
First step... NOT have the lagoon Nebula directly over NYC =/ But in all seriousness, thank you for all these photoshop tutorials. They make a world of difference.
Well oftopic but you can crack adobe products pretty easiyl. Just search for ccmaker on google (the official one) install it then you can download all adobe products free ( version 8.0 higher and 2019 versions dont work) I made it myself no virus
Oh I love this! It really smoothed out my background noise. I know I should know this, but what are you doing with the layers you modified? Merged down? Or kept the layer as is? EDIT: Yup, merging down and maybe that secret 66% opacity.
Trevor, very cool. Have you completed a project with your Meade DSI yet? I'm curious to see how you make out assembling multiple filters with Photoshop. Trying to put together an LRGB image in PS made me switch to PI.
You all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me
@Ben Jay I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
What format are your images to open in ps. When dss saves them I can’t open them in ps. I click open in ps then select the stacked from dss click open and it opens in a screen called CAMERA RAW 7.4-TIFF and not the actual ps screen ? Anyone know why please. Great video as always.
Hello Trevor, thank you very much for your wonderful tutorials. I am just starting out in trying to take images of the milky way, (not yet been bit by the deep space photo bug yet), and was hoping for some guidance. Most of the tutorials I watch on improving your images either involve using a tracker which seem to always involve some sort of app needed or recommended to make finding polaris easier among other things. Secondly I often read about 'astro converting' your camera. I am tempted to try using a tracker, but I do not own a cell phone, and not really keen on getting one either. Are these 'apps' necessary and how challenging is it to use a tracker without all those misc items like a cell phone and the many apps mentioned? Also what is your opinion on getting a camera 'astro' converted? I have read of people that have done both, using a tracker with an astro converted camera. I guess if money was no object, and I wasn't a luddite, it might be feasible, but with the restrictions I have mentioned. What would you suggest? Much appreciated and apology for the long winded question.
I think Photoshop is charging extra for that color select function. Is there a way to find out which new functions come with various upgrades or do you have to pick them one at a time and pay out the 👃
Well done Trevor ! Thanks for the video and insight . Question for you was this shot from saint Catherines ? Reason I ask is because you were able to get up to 5 min subs at iso 1600 ?
Just started to go through some pixinsight tutorials. Do you think PS is needed well? Side note: do you still stand by your comment that the asi294mc pro is the best OSC you've used?
Pix can do absolutely everything you need. It's such a powerful tool The asi295mc is probably the best bang for buck osc camera but the asi071 has a better performance, it is so sensitive and has such little noise
I never apply NR just integrate more and more and you will have Incredible Snr to process and then do aggressive stretching data You won't find noise there
@@brish1665 i thought he would use all the tools he can get his hands on photoshop pixinsight and astro pixel processor as each program has its strengths and weaknesses and other functions that not all of them have in the one program i still think a craftsman and artist like trevor would use more than one ( not sure but i think he used pixinsight in another video i could be wrong ) but you could be right Johannes Josefsen clear skies to you mate cheers james D
@@jamesdougan8789 I agree on your points completely, I personally dabble in all of the ones you just mentioned. 🙂 Just pretty sure he only uses DSS + PS (with action sets), if not then I certainly missed it. Clear skies!
@astrobackyard If you want to learn a massive amount of general photoshop techniques valuable for astrophotography look at the @piximperfect channel. He has a lot of detailed knowledge of photoshop and is great at presenting the techniques in an easy to understand and reproduce way. Oh, and also always convert your layer to a smart object before applying a filter - that way you can go back at any time and adjust a previous filter without having to re-do it from scratch.
err your pic's makes me miss taking the telescpe out i have a 8" lx200 cat i had a run of bad luck the meade fork died 2 weeks out of warranty and meade refused to put a board in it so i deforked it an sold my fork and bought a new EQ-6 with hd field tripod with Astrophotography package addon cam with a qsi camera with 5 filters and a auto guider (dont rem. brand) from ebay packaged deal for $2200.00 i should have known it was to good to be true for $1500 mount ,1k camera , $50. x5 filters ,$200 auto guider. i paid and 3 days later he closed his paypal and ebay accounts and never shipped it. this guy sold 11 of the 20 he had listed and because i paid by bank and not a credit card i lost my $2200. now i have to save a few yrs again to get a mount. wow what a long story of why i don't have a mount anymore it sucks me and the kids loved taking the scope out. take lots of good pic for us to look at and thanks for sharing. new sub
sorry Trevor but did you know Adobe is going to abolish all licensed software from them that's not based on subscription and being sued if we continue using that? you should make an awareness for this as well.
Trevor like your stuff but as far as Photoshop goes, Oy vey! That can be expensive. what are you spending annually with Photoshop? I believe it can range anywhere from $9.99 a month to over $50 a month. a lot of us out here I just amateurs, like yourself, but we’re not making money off of this. I know you can download and buy a program for $79 but it’s just a basic and I’m not sure what I can do it basic. I’m not gonna spend $60 a month to edit photos as a hobby. it’s enough I’ve got to spend thousands of dollars now getting the good equipment to view and or take photos. Can you recommend a program that can give us reasonably good editing and at a reasonable price?
Can u give me a junkies run down on cheap stuff to use for people who live life’s with no money and have to steal there stuff please. Free and cheap would be great. Not rich and proud. Thank u
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Trevor you are a genius. Have used Select and Mask for composites and played a bit with it for Astro but never thought about two passes with the mask. You and Dylan O’Donnell make astrophotography so exciting for us mere mortals... my heart is singing!
Trevor, I just want to say, that thanks to your videos and blog getting into astrophotography is less painful for me. Keep up the good work, man!
Trevor, what a pleasure to see an instructional style video like you used to make rather than the advertising style video where I feel like you are selling products. Videos like this are what brought me to your channel originally.
Watching all of these excitedly before my mount and scope arrive, all of your videos are so inspirational!
THANK YOU!! I've needed this for a LONG TIME...how did I ever miss this??!!
Great video Trevor I'm looking forward to trying it. For you Pixinsight users the equal to this would be your "RangeSelection" mask under your processes.
Wow ! Learned a lot on that one Trevor . I usually use Light Room ( wide field Milky Way , moon etc . ) and have little to no experience with PS.
Just acquired Star Adventurer for tracking and I’m eager to try PS. Thanks Trevor
Great tutorial Trevor! It cool watching you grow over time and teaching others as you go. Nice giving heart. Keep up your enthusiasm .
Awesome Trevor. I will be trying this out if it ever clears up again and I am able to image something. These days I use PI for initial analysis, stacking, background neutralization, some noise reduction, combining LRGB and narrowband images, some stretching, some star reduction and then use PS for more of the same. I am not purest of either program and see no reason to choose one over the other. I have found both programs can do the same thing, it is just how easy is it to do. PI does range masks but I do like the simpler control PS has to offer. I have been doing the color range method in PS with the 'ants'. I didn't know you can make them go away. Thanks for sharing - Cheers
Glad your back Trevor! 😄🙌🏽
what a nice video Trevor, thank you!
Great video Trevor! Keep it up!
Nice work Trevor. I checked and most of this capability appears to be present in Photoshop CS6 as well, though not put together as a "tool". Just an FYI for people with older copies of PShop running.
Thank you Trevor for this tutorial. I was so disheartened between modifying my camera because to capture more H Alpha on my stock d800 or buying new Camera.I did not want to buy a new full frame to modify it as my filters are all for FF. Since its a new hobby, I do not gave the budget. Great tutorial.
Trevor, great information and video. Love your passion for the hobby.
Trevor, I feel your pain with the weather lately. I'm in New England and it's been sucky for weeks now. Just wanted to thank you for this Ps tutorial video as that is an area I'm still trying to get used to with my own astrophotos. If you have any other tips and tricks I'd love to see more videos on this subject. Keep it up!
Excellent, I have learnt so much from your videos. Keep up the great work.
Very interresting! I will defiately have a look at maybe finishing off my pixinsight images in PS. Masking is one of the things I find most difficult in PixInsight, and it just seems so much more intuitive in the way you do it here.
Good video Trevor!
You don't need masks for noise reduction in pixinsight, try tgv denoise, it's incredible!
@@joshswan5353 I know and use it. But masks are used for many things, and my point was that masking is something I find difficult in PI.
CS 6 you can do a color range selection and go into these same adjustments by clicking refine edge
Thanks! Couldn't find the select and mask on CS6
Seems Trevor found a secret weapon for us, gonna redo some old data with this, Great Video. +10
Great video...PI has a more limited version of this called 'range selection' which works, but this seems like it offers a greater range of control for fine tuning. I'll definitely give this a shot moving forward when it comes to final saturation/contrast adjustments. Weather in northeast US has been abysmal too...one clear night since a week before NEAF, and the nights are only getting shorter. The FOMO is real.
This is really helpful.
Great video Trevor! I will indeed be using some of these techniques :)
First step... NOT have the lagoon Nebula directly over NYC =/
But in all seriousness, thank you for all these photoshop tutorials. They make a world of difference.
Could you do a tutorial in Gimp?
Well oftopic but you can crack adobe products pretty easiyl. Just search for ccmaker on google (the official one) install it then you can download all adobe products free
( version 8.0 higher and 2019 versions dont work)
I made it myself no virus
@@zyclonic5287 lmfao wtf
Oh I love this! It really smoothed out my background noise. I know I should know this, but what are you doing with the layers you modified? Merged down? Or kept the layer as is? EDIT: Yup, merging down and maybe that secret 66% opacity.
Haha, "Control Zed"... Canadians. gotta love em! Great video Trevor!
Silly American. Australia, New Zealand and the UK..in fact all English speaking countries but the US say zed. Welcome to the world outside of the US.
@@gmore70 That's because in French Z is pronounced Zed... Since we were never subjugated by the french we pronounce it correctly!
A powerful tool indeed, thanks for sharing.
Brilliant! Thanks for that Trevor! At least I have something to do for the cloudy nights now ;)
Trevor, very cool. Have you completed a project with your Meade DSI yet? I'm curious to see how you make out assembling multiple filters with Photoshop. Trying to put together an LRGB image in PS made me switch to PI.
You all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know a method to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot the password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me
@Hezekiah Tripp instablaster :)
@Ben Jay I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out now.
Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Ben Jay It did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thanks so much, you saved my ass!
@Hezekiah Tripp No problem :D
Perfect for me! Thank you Trevor!
What format are your images to open in ps. When dss saves them I can’t open them in ps. I click open in ps then select the stacked from dss click open and it opens in a screen called CAMERA RAW 7.4-TIFF and not the actual ps screen ? Anyone know why please. Great video as always.
Trevor try to use also Capture One for editing, is very good on masking and other stuff :)
Hello Trevor, thank you very much for your wonderful tutorials. I am just starting out in trying to take images of the milky way, (not yet been bit by the deep space photo bug yet), and was hoping for some guidance. Most of the tutorials I watch on improving your images either involve using a tracker which seem to always involve some sort of app needed or recommended to make finding polaris easier among other things. Secondly I often read about 'astro converting' your camera. I am tempted to try using a tracker, but I do not own a cell phone, and not really keen on getting one either. Are these 'apps' necessary and how challenging is it to use a tracker without all those misc items like a cell phone and the many apps mentioned? Also what is your opinion on getting a camera 'astro' converted? I have read of people that have done both, using a tracker with an astro converted camera. I guess if money was no object, and I wasn't a luddite, it might be feasible, but with the restrictions I have mentioned. What would you suggest? Much appreciated and apology for the long winded question.
I think Photoshop is charging extra for that color select function. Is there a way to find out which new functions come with various upgrades or do you have to pick them one at a time and pay out the 👃
Well done Trevor ! Thanks for the video and insight . Question for you was this shot from saint Catherines ? Reason I ask is because you were able to get up to 5 min subs at iso 1600 ?
Great video. thanks
hey Trevor, just wondering what is the light pollution level in your area(1-10)?
Then what did you do? Merge all the visible layers? I guess the question is, how did you finish up with all those layers?
GRACIAS FANTASTICO¡¡¡
Trever you shuld make some merch of your pictures
Just started to go through some pixinsight tutorials. Do you think PS is needed well?
Side note: do you still stand by your comment that the asi294mc pro is the best OSC you've used?
Pix can do absolutely everything you need. It's such a powerful tool
The asi295mc is probably the best bang for buck osc camera but the asi071 has a better performance, it is so sensitive and has such little noise
@@joshswan5353 I thought the 294 had lower read noise than the 071 and more sensitive. 071 costs 50% more so out of my price range anyway.
@@anthonyexmouth could be but I don't think so. There's a reason why the 294 is so popular though. Great camera and affordable for what it is
@@joshswan5353 071 = 2.3e and the 294 = 1.2e . I presume lower is better.
So 80mm refractors can still see detail in deep sky objects like nebulae?
I never apply NR just integrate more and more and you will have Incredible Snr to process and then do aggressive stretching data
You won't find noise there
Make more video's please! We have clouds and rain for at least 10 more days😅
How is he creating the Layer 2 after making the first adjustments? I dont get it..
It has been raining for almost 2 weeks straight, and just yesterday got a night to get my telescope out.
So do you use PixInsight?
yes he dose
@@jamesdougan8789 I don't think he does.. PS man all the way I believe.. :)
@@brish1665 i thought he would use all the tools he can get his hands on photoshop pixinsight and astro pixel processor as each program has its strengths and weaknesses and other functions that not all of them have in the one program i still think a craftsman and artist like trevor would use more than one
( not sure but i think he used pixinsight in another video i could be wrong ) but you could be right Johannes Josefsen clear skies to you mate
cheers
james D
@@jamesdougan8789 I agree on your points completely, I personally dabble in all of the ones you just mentioned. 🙂 Just pretty sure he only uses DSS + PS (with action sets), if not then I certainly missed it.
Clear skies!
Trevor only uses photoshop and DSS. I imagine he likes using them because it goes along with the spirit of his channel
why 15 fps ;-;
Yup nice
Security breach - there's a WiFi password on the white board :)
For someone like me who is a totally beginner at photoshop all these video skips were you create layers etc its really hard for me to understand..
This works on Milky Way too?
Wow!?
@astrobackyard If you want to learn a massive amount of general photoshop techniques valuable for astrophotography look at the @piximperfect channel. He has a lot of detailed knowledge of photoshop and is great at presenting the techniques in an easy to understand and reproduce way. Oh, and also always convert your layer to a smart object before applying a filter - that way you can go back at any time and adjust a previous filter without having to re-do it from scratch.
err your pic's makes me miss taking the telescpe out i have a 8" lx200 cat i had a run of bad luck the meade fork died 2 weeks out of warranty and meade refused to put a board in it so i deforked it an sold my fork and bought a new EQ-6 with hd field tripod with Astrophotography package addon cam with a qsi camera with 5 filters and a auto guider (dont rem. brand) from ebay packaged deal for $2200.00 i should have known it was to good to be true for $1500 mount ,1k camera , $50. x5 filters ,$200 auto guider. i paid and 3 days later he closed his paypal and ebay accounts and never shipped it. this guy sold 11 of the 20 he had listed and because i paid by bank and not a credit card i lost my $2200. now i have to save a few yrs again to get a mount. wow what a long story of why i don't have a mount anymore it sucks me and the kids loved taking the scope out. take lots of good pic for us to look at and thanks for sharing. new sub
sorry Trevor but did you know Adobe is going to abolish all licensed software from them that's not based on subscription and being sued if we continue using that? you should make an awareness for this as well.
Sadly I am stuck with CS5
I'm also still on CS5. After selecting your Color Range go to Select > Refine Edge, it has the same settings as the 'Select and Mask' option he uses.
Tervor please slow down ime ok with photoshop but trrrrrrrrrrev racing aint worrrrrking
Trevor like your stuff but as far as Photoshop goes, Oy vey! That can be expensive. what are you spending annually with Photoshop? I believe it can range anywhere from $9.99 a month to over $50 a month. a lot of us out here I just amateurs, like yourself, but we’re not making money off of this. I know you can download and buy a program for $79 but it’s just a basic and I’m not sure what I can do it basic. I’m not gonna spend $60 a month to edit photos as a hobby. it’s enough I’ve got to spend thousands of dollars now getting the good equipment to view and or take photos. Can you recommend a program that can give us reasonably good editing and at a reasonable price?
Can u give me a junkies run down on cheap stuff to use for people who live life’s with no money and have to steal there stuff please. Free and cheap would be great. Not rich and proud. Thank u
I,m excited about star party! Who else is?