Another great vid, Martin - I like your no-nonsense approach and easy yet powerful editing. I'm just about to enter the realms of mono imaging myself, and this is really spot on! Thumbs up! Question: Wouldn't applying Camera Raw in filter do the same thing, more or less, as Lightroom? And why do you save the image as PNG before going into Lightroom? Apologies for the newbie questions.
Hi Hans. Thank you so much for the positive feedback. Much appreciated! I am not sure exactly what you mean by “Camera Raw in filter”. Can you please elaborate? I use PNG because it is a format that Lightroom can import. No other reason really.
Thanks for this Martin really good to follow your workflow - I've previously been using the combine RGB feature in APP and just using Photoshop for final tweaks, and hadn't been aware of the Selective Colour feature. BTW isn't the Camera Raw filter in PS the same as the processing you're exiting to do in Lightroom?
Hi Danny. Sorry for the slow response...Yes, Camera Raw filter in PS is the same...I just didn't know about it, so thanks! Avoids the export and import into Lightroom. I like it! Clear Skies.
Nice tutorial. I just recently posted something similar on my channel, but then using Siril for stacking and recombining the data. I also didn't use a mono camera, but I used a one shot color camera (ASI294MC Pro). Using the L-eXtreme filter I could capture the Ha and OIII in one go. The S2 data I got by shooting another night with a S2 filter. How did you align the three channels? Using DSS?
Thanks Martin. Yes, I used DSS. I used the best Ha image as the reference for the registration of all images so that they automatically align when combined in PhotoShop.
One other thing - do you know in PS if it's possible to assign more than one filter image to each channel? In APP I've been setting SII to R, Ha to G and OIII to B, but then also assigning SII and OIII also to Green so each filter contributes 33% to Green.
One way to do this is to combine multiple filters first using carefully chosen layer transparencies, then copy the resulting image into the required channel in the RGB combination image. There are probably other ways that are easier, but I don't know them (yet). If you find a great way to do this, please let me know.
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Most straightforward tutorial yet
Thanks.
I love to watch another astrophotographers workflows. There is always something to learn. Thanks.
Thanks soooo so much! I can't wrap my head around pixinsight so I Stick with Photoshop
This video has all the missing info....the color selection adjustments are gold!!! Thanks for clear, concise instruction!!!
Thanks Kevin. Glad it helped you. Clear Skies.
Thanks so much for this video, it was a great help to me processing my first ever narrowband image today.
Fantastic work with selective color, thank you!
Another great vid, Martin - I like your no-nonsense approach and easy yet powerful editing. I'm just about to enter the realms of mono imaging myself, and this is really spot on! Thumbs up! Question: Wouldn't applying Camera Raw in filter do the same thing, more or less, as Lightroom? And why do you save the image as PNG before going into Lightroom? Apologies for the newbie questions.
Hi Hans. Thank you so much for the positive feedback. Much appreciated! I am not sure exactly what you mean by “Camera Raw in filter”. Can you please elaborate? I use PNG because it is a format that Lightroom can import. No other reason really.
@@hapestr Sounds really interesting. I will take a look. Thanks!
Thanks for this Martin really good to follow your workflow - I've previously been using the combine RGB feature in APP and just using Photoshop for final tweaks, and hadn't been aware of the Selective Colour feature. BTW isn't the Camera Raw filter in PS the same as the processing you're exiting to do in Lightroom?
Hi Danny. Sorry for the slow response...Yes, Camera Raw filter in PS is the same...I just didn't know about it, so thanks! Avoids the export and import into Lightroom. I like it! Clear Skies.
Nice tutorial. I just recently posted something similar on my channel, but then using Siril for stacking and recombining the data. I also didn't use a mono camera, but I used a one shot color camera (ASI294MC Pro). Using the L-eXtreme filter I could capture the Ha and OIII in one go. The S2 data I got by shooting another night with a S2 filter.
How did you align the three channels? Using DSS?
Thanks Martin. Yes, I used DSS. I used the best Ha image as the reference for the registration of all images so that they automatically align when combined in PhotoShop.
One other thing - do you know in PS if it's possible to assign more than one filter image to each channel? In APP I've been setting SII to R, Ha to G and OIII to B, but then also assigning SII and OIII also to Green so each filter contributes 33% to Green.
One way to do this is to combine multiple filters first using carefully chosen layer transparencies, then copy the resulting image into the required channel in the RGB combination image. There are probably other ways that are easier, but I don't know them (yet). If you find a great way to do this, please let me know.
Is this able to be done at the stacking level?