Thank you Craig for another great video. I see your trick with masks on levels adjustment layers and then a mask on the group layer. Could you just do a mask at the top, group layer? At the end you mask with black everything anyway. Provided that you have good blending of the dark areas with comet and galaxy, so you can reveal bright areas only with one one top mask. Also, in PixInsight could you remove the gradient with DBE or GraxPert as well. I am not sure if it would work in this case though. Thank you and I wish you fill your new observatory with client telescopes as soon as possible.
Yes, there are lots of other mask combinations that would work. Think of the videos as more of a conceptual guide rather than a specific recipe. DBE, GraXpert, etc. did not work well on this image. I do normally use those as a starting point in PixInsight, but I usually do some refinement in Photoshop.
Yes, a little but not successfully. DBE, GraXpert and Gradient Correction didn’t do the job. Besides, I finf it’s very easy and controllable in Photoshop, but I’m sure a PixInsight expert could find a way.
excellent tutorial
Thank you Craig for another great video. I see your trick with masks on levels adjustment layers and then a mask on the group layer. Could you just do a mask at the top, group layer? At the end you mask with black everything anyway. Provided that you have good blending of the dark areas with comet and galaxy, so you can reveal bright areas only with one one top mask. Also, in PixInsight could you remove the gradient with DBE or GraxPert as well. I am not sure if it would work in this case though. Thank you and I wish you fill your new observatory with client telescopes as soon as possible.
Yes, there are lots of other mask combinations that would work. Think of the videos as more of a conceptual guide rather than a specific recipe. DBE, GraXpert, etc. did not work well on this image. I do normally use those as a starting point in PixInsight, but I usually do some refinement in Photoshop.
Have you tried to deal with those gradients in PI?
Yes, a little but not successfully. DBE, GraXpert and Gradient Correction didn’t do the job. Besides, I finf it’s very easy and controllable in Photoshop, but I’m sure a PixInsight expert could find a way.