That's really an awesome workflow!! As a color blind and in order to avoid any background color bias which is difficult for me to identify, would it be an option to clip the blacks on all nb layers slightly and add "your" solid rgb(19,19,19) layer on top in lighten mode as long as you don't clip faint emission nebula signal?
You can, but perhaps a better option would be to set a sample point at the darkest point and then adjust the brightness of each layer so that that point is around 19,19,19 to neutralize the background.
I tried that before as seen on your older videos but the results were quite different depending on the chosen sample point. So one really should find the absolute darkest background area to neutralize it successfully (?)
Moving the individual layers into channels tends to be destructive and much less flexible. For instance if you decide you want yhe Ha to be slightly more cyan than pure green it becomes much more complicated with channels. With this technique you simply move the hue slider on the Ha hue adjustment layer.
@@utahdesertremoteobservator8328 would that be an option if only doing RGB? I haven't been acquainted with Photoshop in about 30 years, I figured you could still apply adjustment layers with the data being in the channels.
@@MatthewHolevinski Maybe I'm not understanding your question. The data ultimately is always in "channels" but we generally don't work directly with the channels. We use layers and adjustment layers which ultimately affect the way the channels are mixed and displayed, but that's all happening in the background.
I've learned a ton over the past year or so from your videos. Always great stuff. Thank you!
Love the action button, it makes Narrowband so easy and we can focus on creativity, adjusting sliders to taste
Thanks Craig as always
I saw that video too. Your method is easier and better in my opinion.
Thanks a lot for your video. Great and very interesting. How can I get your photoshop action???
Great idea using the actions to speed things up on the set up!
Craig is it possible how to make a video of Macro recording ? Thx
That's really an awesome workflow!!
As a color blind and in order to avoid any background color bias which is difficult for me to identify, would it be an option to clip the blacks on all nb layers slightly and add "your" solid rgb(19,19,19) layer on top in lighten mode as long as you don't clip faint emission nebula signal?
You can, but perhaps a better option would be to set a sample point at the darkest point and then adjust the brightness of each layer so that that point is around 19,19,19 to neutralize the background.
I tried that before as seen on your older videos but the results were quite different depending on the chosen sample point. So one really should find the absolute darkest background area to neutralize it successfully (?)
@@Nico.75 Yes. I'm going to do a video to show how to do that
What implications are there regarding moving the data into the RGB documents channels instead of layers?
Moving the individual layers into channels tends to be destructive and much less flexible. For instance if you decide you want yhe Ha to be slightly more cyan than pure green it becomes much more complicated with channels. With this technique you simply move the hue slider on the Ha hue adjustment layer.
@@utahdesertremoteobservator8328 would that be an option if only doing RGB? I haven't been acquainted with Photoshop in about 30 years, I figured you could still apply adjustment layers with the data being in the channels.
@@MatthewHolevinski Maybe I'm not understanding your question. The data ultimately is always in "channels" but we generally don't work directly with the channels. We use layers and adjustment layers which ultimately affect the way the channels are mixed and displayed, but that's all happening in the background.
@@utahdesertremoteobservator8328 gotcha, thank you :)