Im a complete novice when it comes to processing my photos,ive watched numerous you tube vidios but this one IS BY FAR THE BEST AND IMFORMATIVE.. thank you 👍
Wow! I know this video is 3 years old, but it's new to me. I am an astrophotography newbie. I learned more about processing images with PS by watching this one video than I have by watching dozens of others. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge.
Its good when someone does as tutorial for the novice. Explaining at a clear steady pace. Not being click happy on the mouse. Plus a subject that couldn't be seen on screen till it was teased out. Great tutorial. Well done Stacey.
This is a great tutorial, thank you! I've been watching a few that demonstrate steps without explaining them, but your approach is so much more helpful for someone like me - so thank you!
Just ran across this post. Extremely well done. Great pace so you can follow the steps. I'm not new to photoshop but by no means an expert. This was so logical I have to use it. Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial.
Thank you!! I've needed a beginners Photoshop processing work flow for so long. I knew bits but not in what order and so many new things, thanks for helping me to make sense of it all!!
Great video as always Stacey. May I just add that learning & using keyboard short cuts whilst using photoshop really helps. for example (Ctrl J = duplicate layer) (Ctrl L = levels) (Ctrl D = deselect marching ants). A lot more short cuts can be found on the internet. Your tip for background / black level correction via the black eyedropper in levels is very handy to all, using the grey eye dropper will also assist for mid tone colour calibration. Great work as always, stay safe & well. Marc
Thanks for the great tutorial Stace! I have watched a lot of astrophotography editing videos and yours by far was the easiest to follow and I got great results.
Thanks Stacey for an informative tutorial video, you make the process look so easy and layers look quite straight forward and uncomplicated, will put what I`ve learned to the test, most likely will have to revisit your video a few times in the process.
Thanks Stacey. This was very helpful. I just purchased my first ever telescope/mount/imaging camera, etc. Took my first image (eastern veil nebula) and 1) couldn’t believed that it worked! and 2) was amazed at the number of stars in the image. Your tutorial will come in very handy for me doing a better job at processing. Dr B from Manitoba, 🇨🇦
Great to see the process from beginning to end in real time. A lot of others use jump cuts and don't explain what they're doing or why. Thanks for the video.
Thank you very much young lady, for taking the time and sharing your knowledge, and producing a very informative how to. Especially for old folks like myself who were born BC (before computers). I am new to this amazing hobby/art form of astrophotography and I absolutely love it. However, I dread having to process because it can be very complicated, and all of the tutorials I have been watching and trying to follow along with, though great content, have left me in the dust because I am lacking in the fundamentals of computer navigation. This is by far the nicest and easiest tutorial process that I have come across. Great job. Thank you again, very much. I will now hit that subscribe button. I look forward to more great content from you.
Great video Stacey! You put so much time and effort into these and only want to help people! Shame you have already received a dislike, also a shame they can't be bothered to let you know what they dislike about it! Keep it up! Nice to see you posting videos again =)
Thanks @AstroStace. The black level adjustment was a good tip. I feel like in AP we are often trying to get an image to some state where we think/know it _should_ look like (going off other reference images, APODs, Hubble data, etc.). If we didn't have all that, I wonder if the process would be different? Clear skies!
Thank you ! I think so! I think people should be a lot more free to process and tweak as they want. People can get a bit unfriendly when they see people doing it differently to themselves.
Another great video Stace mind a little boggled as you covered a large area there, for my tiny brain i will probably have to create a textual bullet point list to prompt me. Your presentation style is so relaxed and easy it should help any beginner.
Fan-dam-tastic! I have just stacked 50x240s of the NA & Pelican nebulae. Post processing was and is a misery until I found your video. This is a game changer for me. Thanks!
Like others, I found this easy to follow and explained a lot of the problems I was encountering - Photoshop is very overpowering to start with, but following your routine explains a lot. Thanks.
This is a great video tutorial, I'm definitely going to follow this work flow with my images as I'm a beginner and want to have an easier less complicated way of processing my images and learnt a lot of new ideas here, thank you and look forward to more great content
It will absolutely be of help to me. Now I can go back and re-process some images I had given up or just didn't know what I was doing on and fix them. Keep these videos coming please! 😁👍
Great tutorial! So many people do these and forget a lot of people are new to all of this. They throw out terms like stretch and new layer and what not with no explanation. Anyway good job!
This was a great beginner tutorial. Loved it. I learnt a few things here, so therefore this video was a success. Keep up the good work. Look forward to the next one.💯
@astrostace Thank you for a very clear tutorial. I'm an absolute beginner with Photoshop and found this extremely easy to follow. I'll put a link in my next video to this if that's alright with you. Cheers Ryan 👍
Hey thanks! I used your method and was able to mostly get rid of the huge overexposed blob that sits in the centre of my images (I’m using an old Nikon D700 so I’m assuming that’s the sensor). Also can see more stars in my ngc4755. Thanks again!
I own a dslr camera how do I download my images to a desktop computer? I also have a two 585 MC yet can't figure out how to do a download. I joined a local astronomy club 2 days ago but have heard nothing from the group yet. Your video is good. Thank you for your help.
Nice presentation, as usual. Could you do a tutorial on the latest version of Affinity photo 1.9.1 ? It seems like a great option, but it could benefit from one of your more user-friendly tutorials!
You know, I've seen some videos of PixInsight, and quite honestly, as a beginner, I'd rather be doing this like Stacy is showing, in PS, or maybe APP, or a couple of other programs, but NOT PixInsight. At least not until I get some experience under my belt so that I have some clue as to what I might be doing.
Very effective quick edit which, in my view, essentially fuses a workflow in both PS and Lightroom (after all, what is photo RAW but Lightroom in different garb?). My best edit so far of the California Nebula out of 5 attempts.
Thank you, that's a pretty nice and simple workflow, have to try it out on my stack of Andromeda galaxy. Used Sequator for stacking, would that make any difference to the workflow?
Hi Stacy! Thank you for sharing your experience! i'm still doing visual but I like to wacht your tutorials! Maybe in the future I'll step up to astrophotografy! One question, what do you think are the minimum computer requirements for processing and postprocessing in astrophotografy ?Thank you again!
Very nice, Stace. Okay, so if I look on Astrobin.com, I can find hundreds of photos of this nebula. I also see them in tons of different colors. It seems that most of them are red in color, which given the HII of the area, I would expect. Now, I'm not saying your image isn't correct, it is very nicely done. But, in a case like this when we might expect to see reds from an HII area, and since our eyes are not going to see it visually, how do we know what might be accurate or might be the whim of the photographer? I mean, I can look up something in Stellarium, or Wikipedia, like I did for the Pelican nebula and note that it's an HII region. In doing so, I can assume it's red. Is what you're doing with the colors here more 'artistic expression?' Again, I'm not saying this is bad, it's far better than anything that I can do, and besides, it IS lovely to look at, but for someone who is looking for 'accuracy', how do you determine that and how do you edit to get that accuracy, if it's even possible in Photoshop, or APP, or anything else, for that matter. Thanks in advance!
I decided to go with this colouring for a more Hubble-esque pallette . I wouldn’t call it artistic no, it’s imaged in ha and oiii predominantly and I’ve just mixed the colour channels a little differently that’s all. It’s all false colour anyway :) At the end of the video did you see my message about people doing things differently. Life and astrophotography would be very very boring if everyone did everything the same 🤷🏻♀️
Many thanks for this tutorial has really helped me start to get to grips with Photoshop processing. Loving the colours - what filters did you use for this?
g`day stace as a boomer with no photoshop skills/knowledge you have opened a door for me with this program (i have photoshop played with sliders but had no clue what i was doing lol ) .. i will set it up so i can follow you step by step.. i do planetary stuff and the only processing i did was stack and wavelets bit of sharpening and denoise with registacks and autostakkert and a little PIPP (still working out winjupos need a lot of help with that one lol) ........great video i learned a lot any tips on planet workflow in a another video if you have the time in the future would be appreciated.. not much stuff on planetary processing out there cheers james D
Im a complete novice when it comes to processing my photos,ive watched numerous you tube vidios but this one IS BY FAR THE BEST AND IMFORMATIVE.. thank you 👍
You can rely on Stacey for clear exposition and extremely good technical accuracy. She's not just telling you her guesses. She knows what she's doing.
Wow! I know this video is 3 years old, but it's new to me. I am an astrophotography newbie. I learned more about processing images with PS by watching this one video than I have by watching dozens of others. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge.
Glad to help!
With people like you the world is a better place, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you Geoff :)
Keep the good work coming 👍👍👍
Its good when someone does as tutorial for the novice. Explaining at a clear steady pace. Not being click happy on the mouse. Plus a subject that couldn't be seen on screen till it was teased out. Great tutorial. Well done Stacey.
Thank you very much Mel :)
This is a great tutorial, thank you! I've been watching a few that demonstrate steps without explaining them, but your approach is so much more helpful for someone like me - so thank you!
Just ran across this post. Extremely well done. Great pace so you can follow the steps. I'm not new to photoshop but by no means an expert. This was so logical I have to use it. Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial.
Thank you!! I've needed a beginners Photoshop processing work flow for so long. I knew bits but not in what order and so many new things, thanks for helping me to make sense of it all!!
Great video as always Stacey. May I just add that learning & using keyboard short cuts whilst using photoshop really helps. for example (Ctrl J = duplicate layer) (Ctrl L = levels) (Ctrl D = deselect marching ants). A lot more short cuts can be found on the internet. Your tip for background / black level correction via the black eyedropper in levels is very handy to all, using the grey eye dropper will also assist for mid tone colour calibration. Great work as always, stay safe & well. Marc
Thank you Marc! Take care :)
nice video Stace. nothing rushes and all clear and well explained. thanks Dave
Thanks for the great tutorial Stace! I have watched a lot of astrophotography editing videos and yours by far was the easiest to follow and I got great results.
So glad I could help :)
This is the best tutorial for beginners. Very much appreciated for your dedication.
Nice walkthrough. I also use Adjustment layers that help to ensure a non-destructive workflow.
Thanks Stacey for an informative tutorial video, you make the process look so easy and layers look quite straight forward and uncomplicated, will put what I`ve learned to the test, most likely will have to revisit your video a few times in the process.
Thanks Stacey. This was very helpful. I just purchased my first ever telescope/mount/imaging camera, etc. Took my first image (eastern veil nebula) and 1) couldn’t believed that it worked! and 2) was amazed at the number of stars in the image. Your tutorial will come in very handy for me doing a better job at processing. Dr B from Manitoba, 🇨🇦
Cracking video Stace!! So, so helpful and so so lovely to see you back 😊😊
Thank you 😊
Great to see the process from beginning to end in real time. A lot of others use jump cuts and don't explain what they're doing or why. Thanks for the video.
Glad you liked it :)
Thank you very much young lady, for taking the time and sharing your knowledge, and producing a very informative how to. Especially for old folks like myself who were born BC (before computers). I am new to this amazing hobby/art form of astrophotography and I absolutely love it. However, I dread having to process because it can be very complicated, and all of the tutorials I have been watching and trying to follow along with, though great content, have left me in the dust because I am lacking in the fundamentals of computer navigation.
This is by far the nicest and easiest tutorial process that I have come across.
Great job.
Thank you again, very much.
I will now hit that subscribe button. I look forward to more great content from you.
Thank you for the lovely feedback
Great video Stacey! You put so much time and effort into these and only want to help people! Shame you have already received a dislike, also a shame they can't be bothered to let you know what they dislike about it!
Keep it up! Nice to see you posting videos again =)
Thanks @AstroStace. The black level adjustment was a good tip. I feel like in AP we are often trying to get an image to some state where we think/know it _should_ look like (going off other reference images, APODs, Hubble data, etc.). If we didn't have all that, I wonder if the process would be different? Clear skies!
Thank you ! I think so! I think people should be a lot more free to process and tweak as they want. People can get a bit unfriendly when they see people doing it differently to themselves.
This video is so helpful, the other software programs are so complicated. I'm looking forward to post processing my photos from my seestar 50.
Another great video Stace mind a little boggled as you covered a large area there, for my tiny brain i will probably have to create a textual bullet point list to prompt me. Your presentation style is so relaxed and easy it should help any beginner.
Thank you very much for your time explaining this tutorial. It was completely useful to me for creating a workflow in deep sky editing. Thanks a lot
Brilliant tutorial Stacy. Definitely helps me a lot, as I've been so confused on Photoshop editing.
Fan-dam-tastic! I have just stacked 50x240s of the NA & Pelican nebulae. Post processing was and is a misery until I found your video. This is a game changer for me. Thanks!
Glad to help David! :)
Thank you! That tutorial had just the right amount of detail. You’re an effective instructor!
Great video Stacey! I really like your presentation style. Very easy to follow.
Thank you! It is always helpful to see other people's workflow. There are so many options. This helped a lot!
Always happy to help 😃
Awesome Stace! Good to see you back!
As a raw beginner, that was very helpful. Thanks. Keep 'em coming.
Like others, I found this easy to follow and explained a lot of the problems I was encountering - Photoshop is very overpowering to start with, but following your routine explains a lot. Thanks.
Thanks for the great feedback Anthony! :)
This is a great video tutorial, I'm definitely going to follow this work flow with my images as I'm a beginner and want to have an easier less complicated way of processing my images and learnt a lot of new ideas here, thank you and look forward to more great content
It will absolutely be of help to me. Now I can go back and re-process some images I had given up or just didn't know what I was doing on and fix them. Keep these videos coming please! 😁👍
Great video ! I really like your presentation style... you explained enough details and showed the ropes...thank you :)
great video Stacy ! you can use the Gradient exterminator to remove Grads easily!
Great tutorial! So many people do these and forget a lot of people are new to all of this. They throw out terms like stretch and new layer and what not with no explanation. Anyway good job!
Thank you! Tried to keep that in mind, some folks go in at the deep end and then do tutorials way too fast :) I wanted people to be able to keep up :)
really good video thanks, you went through at just the right speed to be able to follow along . cheers Stace
Nice tutorial, learnt image stretching and star muting. Thanks Stace!
Great video for beginners like myself . Keep up the good work thanks
Nice video, I'm sure it'll help a lot of people get started with processing in PS! :)
Thank you, I hope so :)
Thank you so much Stacey >> I am NEW to Astro and thiis is a GREAT help
Some great reminders for my foggy old brain and plenty of techniques new to me. Thanks so much Stace. Now l'm off to find some old data to play with.
Thanks Jim :) I’m not an expert by any means...just hope it helps a few folks :)
wow awesome vid Stace. I learned a lot. I am a recent subscriber to Photoshop and look forward to employing your tips. Thanks.
Great Tutorial, thankyou Stacey. I've been struggling with editing post-APP, so you have just answered a whole load of questions 👍👍
This was a great beginner tutorial. Loved it. I learnt a few things here, so therefore this video was a success. Keep up the good work. Look forward to the next one.💯
Glad you liked it!! :)
Astrobicuit brought me hear , new sub Stace 👍🏼 great channel 😁
Very well explained just what i needed all in a sensible easy format Many thanks
Glad to help David :)
Excellent tutorial ! First time I have really got it with layers and how to use them. Thanks !
Awesome! This really helped me with two staked images. Thank you. Thank you!
Great video, Stace!
Very helpful just the right speed for a beginner like myself.
Fantastic! Thank you for your tutorial. I've seen quite a few on PS and astro, but this is the easiest one to follow.
Thank you Mike! :)
This video was great and really helped me. More simple. Not some guy flying around in under ten minutes with pre setup menus and screens..
Glad to help :)
Absolutely brilliant. Very helpful, thank you so much.
Good video. Very helpful. The information about FB file types and size will come in handy.
Excellent tutorial!!!
@astrostace Thank you for a very clear tutorial. I'm an absolute beginner with Photoshop and found this extremely easy to follow. I'll put a link in my next video to this if that's alright with you. Cheers Ryan 👍
Absolutely feel free thank you 😊
@@AstroStace thank you 😊
Hey thanks! I used your method and was able to mostly get rid of the huge overexposed blob that sits in the centre of my images (I’m using an old Nikon D700 so I’m assuming that’s the sensor). Also can see more stars in my ngc4755. Thanks again!
Great tips Stace nice video. 👍
Superb. Very helpful. Thanks.
Super helpful. Thank you!!!
thank you Stacey, didn't know that about how to change black point (11-00mins) :)
This was the perfect tutorial for me, Thank you!
Happy to help :)
Love the thumbnail without the glasses. 😍💘
Thanks for the video, you did a great job!
Thank you so much. Really helpful.
Your video helps a lot. Thank you!
Fabulous little tricks in this vid i have missed myself as a noob :p Thank you Stacey (Y)
I own a dslr camera how do I download my images to a desktop computer? I also have a two 585 MC yet can't figure out how to do a download. I joined a local astronomy club 2 days ago but have heard nothing from the group yet. Your video is good. Thank you for your help.
Rewatching. Very helpful. Thank you
Thanks so much. This was extremely helpful.
Glad to help :)
It's a beautiful image and very good tutorial.
Hi Stace. Greetings from Spain. Wouldn't it be more logical to start editing the image with Camera Raw? Thus the edit would not be destructive.
beginner ps was great /would love to see how to mask and that good stuff
like the way you take time with tips
now 60yrs old so im slow
Thx Stacey, that was awesome
Nice presentation, as usual. Could you do a tutorial on the latest version of Affinity photo 1.9.1 ? It seems like a great option, but it could benefit from one of your more user-friendly tutorials!
Great video, thanks for putting it together. Was wondering why images I was taking looked weird straight out of camera.
Wow thanks for sharing Great work
This is a great tutorial. Is it possible for you to provide the data file so we may follow along and complete the processing.
Hi Rick I’m looking into it :) watch this space !
@@AstroStace still watching.
Hi! PS processing is great! but pixinsight with starnet process and combine with Photoshop i'ts huge! great video! congrats!
You know, I've seen some videos of PixInsight, and quite honestly, as a beginner, I'd rather be doing this like Stacy is showing, in PS, or maybe APP, or a couple of other programs, but NOT PixInsight. At least not until I get some experience under my belt so that I have some clue as to what I might be doing.
@@GaryMCurran true! PS is friendly to edit and with great results, and Pixinsight is very good. But very complex to learn. Although not impossible!
great video helped me a lot , thank you
A bit of a strange way of working, but what ever works for you is the most important
very good explained 👍👍
Very effective quick edit which, in my view, essentially fuses a workflow in both PS and Lightroom (after all, what is photo RAW but Lightroom in different garb?). My best edit so far of the California Nebula out of 5 attempts.
I hope you love your new EPIC computer!
I do a little bit :)
useful tips! appreciated~
Appreciate this, great info 🙏
Hi Stace,Great Beginner Video,Thank You,Clear Skies❤️🙏🏼✨🔭🌏
Thank you, that's a pretty nice and simple workflow, have to try it out on my stack of Andromeda galaxy. Used Sequator for stacking, would that make any difference to the workflow?
Hi Stacy! Thank you for sharing your experience! i'm still doing visual but I like to wacht your tutorials! Maybe in the future I'll step up to astrophotografy! One question, what do you think are the minimum computer requirements for processing and postprocessing in astrophotografy ?Thank you again!
OOOOOH. We got an RGB Custom PC build used by an Astrophotographer. There are not a lot of people like you and me in that group.
Why are you using APP? I’ll look at more of your videos. Maybe that will answer my question
OOOOOOOHHHHH what a nice tutorial Stacey , did not see Luna ? hope she is ok
She is all good :) she was on my lap just before I started but then decided she wanted to go snuggle up to her other human instead 😂
Very nice, Stace. Okay, so if I look on Astrobin.com, I can find hundreds of photos of this nebula. I also see them in tons of different colors. It seems that most of them are red in color, which given the HII of the area, I would expect. Now, I'm not saying your image isn't correct, it is very nicely done. But, in a case like this when we might expect to see reds from an HII area, and since our eyes are not going to see it visually, how do we know what might be accurate or might be the whim of the photographer? I mean, I can look up something in Stellarium, or Wikipedia, like I did for the Pelican nebula and note that it's an HII region. In doing so, I can assume it's red. Is what you're doing with the colors here more 'artistic expression?'
Again, I'm not saying this is bad, it's far better than anything that I can do, and besides, it IS lovely to look at, but for someone who is looking for 'accuracy', how do you determine that and how do you edit to get that accuracy, if it's even possible in Photoshop, or APP, or anything else, for that matter.
Thanks in advance!
I decided to go with this colouring for a more Hubble-esque pallette . I wouldn’t call it artistic no, it’s imaged in ha and oiii predominantly and I’ve just mixed the colour channels a little differently that’s all. It’s all false colour anyway :)
At the end of the video did you see my message about people doing things differently. Life and astrophotography would be very very boring if everyone did everything the same 🤷🏻♀️
My photos almost instantly bleach out and look terroble :(. With a Canon r8 and a redcat 51.
Many thanks for this tutorial has really helped me start to get to grips with Photoshop processing. Loving the colours - what filters did you use for this?
Thank you 😊 I used an Altair astro Triband filter !
Very useful, thank you.
The people who dislike this video stack directly to .jpg, then process in MS Paint
This comment gave me hives, lol.
thank you so much
g`day stace as a boomer with no photoshop skills/knowledge you have opened a door for me with this program (i have photoshop played with sliders but had no clue what i was doing lol ) .. i will set it up so i can follow you step by step.. i do planetary stuff and the only processing i did was stack and wavelets bit of sharpening and denoise with registacks and autostakkert and a little PIPP (still working out winjupos need a lot of help with that one lol) ........great video i learned a lot any tips on planet workflow in a another video if you have the time in the future would be appreciated.. not much stuff on planetary processing out there
cheers
james D
Great job! Very helpful. Thank you from across the pond in upstate NY
awesome tutorial!!!!......
Thank you
I'm a Pixinsight user, but I thought this was really cool to see.
Thanks Mark :) hoping to do a similar beginner friendly version for pixinsight very soon :)