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Topic: Reprocess of Swan nebula M17  (Read 46 times)

Paul Haese
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« on: July 28, 2010, 09:33:23 AM »
Having learnt a few new masking approaches I thought I would reprocess this data. I am now much happier with the overall image and can say I am glad to see the back end of the pinks. For those that are interested I used a straight RGB image then created a luminosity layer in photoshop at 40% opacity to get the image detail. Some otheer masks for the colour. It may be just a little on the green side for background colour, but not enough to warrant going over things again.

Hope you like it.

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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2010, 11:33:50 AM »
Yeah, the background is a tad greenish, but the majority of the stars are green too, and that's what spoils it.

Some stars are bluish, but most are an ugly green colour.

Detail is good though.
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2010, 06:19:54 PM »
Take a look again Ken, the green is sorted thanks to this PS plugin and its free.

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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2010, 11:51:12 AM »
Top class image Paul, I cannot fault it.
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2010, 12:58:47 PM »
Very nice Paul.
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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2010, 09:55:51 PM »
Quote from: Paul Haese on July 28, 2010, 06:19:54 PM
Take a look again Ken, the green is sorted thanks to this PS plugin and its free.

Click here for HLVG

Wow, major difference 
Good work.
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