Astrophotography Tutorial - Image Processing a Nebula with Photoshop
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DSLR Astrophotography Processing Tutorial - Caldwell 49: The Rosette Nebula In my first ever tutorial video, I go over the basics of organizing your raw images files, and stacking your light and dark frames in Deep Sky Stacker. I then take the image into Adobe Photoshop for further processing and adjustments. DOWNLOAD THE ORIGINAL FILE: http://astrobackyard.com/tutorials/astrophotography-tutorial-1/ The Photoshop action set I use is called: Astronomy Tools Action Set, which can be downloaded here: http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/Astronomy_Tools_For_Full_Version.html Telescope Used: Explore Scientific ED80 Mount Used: Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro Camera Used: Canon Xsi (450D) stock For more tutorials and astrophotography tips please visit my blog: http://astrobackyard.com/
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What kind of lens are you using? To capture something this deep and clear?
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Very good tutorial, nice and smooth processing. Just found your channel and subscribed as I found your vids very interresting.
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Carbonis actions changes image to 8 bit. You need to delete the step from the actions to avoid loss of details
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Thank you for a series of fascinating and enlightening vlogs. ive just started with astro-photography and i've no doubt your videos will be immensely helpful . Thank you .
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Do you ever use a h-alpha filter? They are very expensive for me. Are they worth the money? Many thanks
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Well done, I immediately bought and downloaded Astronomy Tools, but I ran into some confusion with the zip portion of it. I actually downloaded three versions and then deleted two of them yet they still show up on the Photoshop window. I'm tempted to delete and start over by downloading the recommended version for my set up, hope I don't loose my subscription, but if I do I suppose I can clear that up with the Astronomy Tools people.
One other thing I noticed. I don't know if your version is different than mine with updates and so forth, but my Astronomy tools window doesn't have the row of symbols at the top of it like yours does, mine lists history and actions only.
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I would love to have sample images to work the same project with you as you go through the process. I know this is the wrong nebula, but I found sample images of the Lagoon Nebula through a text book. http://www.astromeeting.de/astrophotography_digital.htm
When I have some spare time, I plan to use these images to follow your instructions. In the meantime, I have about a hundred images to process in two weeks for a college astro-photography course.
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Simply amazing. You have my subscription.
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every day their is new door for astrophotography i will end up doing nothing. too much methods and information.thankssss
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A little Processing tip i use quite a lot is using a high pass filter. Under filters - Other - high pass. This allows you to bring out and sharpen lots of detail inside of the nebula or the target you are imaging. I usually go at around 50pixels then set the blend mode to soft light. I then create a layer mask, invert it then i scribble in the parts i want to sharpen. Hope this makes sense and helps.
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Ever since I found your channel yesterday, I have to say this is my favourite astro-photography channel. Very nice delivery and excellent information. I especially loved your equipment video. You have shown us you can get great results and you don't need top end gear to start out. All the best and thanks
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i tried stacker several times but alway ended up with memory error at the very final stage. .tif always broken. any suggestions?
btw i have high ended pc and 16gb ram -
you cant edit any more without making a video about it.
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Brilliant.
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Excellent tutorial on how to enhance the color after Deep Sky Stacker. I had a lot of trouble with that. You helped me enormously. Thank you.
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My darks always get rejected.
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How come you don't use the fake refraction spikes? lol Just kidding; they're pretty cheesy. Great tutorial. I bought the action set. Think it's a bit better than Annie's Astro Action Set. Thanks a bunch!
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This has helped me no end with my astrophotography. Thanks for taking the time to do this video & sharing your knowledge.
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thx for that ! wouldn't have known how to get going with all the editing. Would be great to see additional videos when you refine your technique or discover stuff :).
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Super! Thanks for this.
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