Astrophotography Post Processing Tutorial // Twilight blend with Light Painting 

It's hard to understand how a person that gives that much knowledge for free in such a nice way, doesn't have a million subscribers... Thank you for the great content man!

Brilliant video Nick. So interesting to see other photographer's workflow.

Watched a lot of tutorials over the years and a lot of blending tutorials. Yours (this video and several others I have watched from you) is by far the best ones. Because you walk that fine line between being thorough and advanced, yet somehow managing to make a 5 year old understand each and every step of the way, without becoming a 3 h tutorial.

How can I give this video extra thumbs up to counterbalance the three unscrupulous people that gave it a thumbs down? Seriously Nick - this is awesome information! Thank you!

Great tutorial with ideas that open up countless possibilities for anyone interested in night sky photography. Thanks for sharing.😊

I LOVE when you do tutorials like this, hearing your rationale for the processing decisions you make is like gold. Thank you for sharing!

I dont care why they do it, I just like it. Thanks to all you guys that take your time and learn out tips and tricks to neewbies like myself :-) Hats of for you all

This is EXACTLY what I needed to have to help me learn my way around editing my astrophotography stuff. I've struggled so much with blending and editing. Cheers nick 👍

Thanks Nick I have missed these little tutorials over the past year. So today you have inspired me to get out and shot some night scapes with idea of blending. With luck the smoke will clear out over Alberta and Saskatchewan to try these imaging ideas. If not fall is approaching to reduce the number of fires burning. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing your ideas and workflow. I hope we can meet in the future. Howard Koch

I was spending hours with precision masking never thought of use blending modes and selection techniques. Thank you so much this what exactly i needed to improve my work flow. Cheers from India.

Top notch Nick! One day I will stand shoulder to shoulder to you with my processing prowess (wishful thinking.....)!!!!

Nick is absolute photoshop wizard.

I always enjoy and learn something when you have processing videos.

I love this video. I lost my interest in landscape photography a little, but this one motivates me again. I think that's the best video I've seen on RU-vid. I know a little bit about Photoshop. But this kind of blending is new to me. The individual steps that you take here are not known to me either. First of all, I don't look at many landscape photographers posting videos here. But I like your very calm character, plus your pictures are, of course, all phenomenal. I want to take another photo of the Milky Way soon and try to get it done in the same way. I saw your other one too. Just beautiful!

Watched this 3 times. Reversed another 6. Thanks for this video. Now if the Monsson season would retreat, I'd ready for next month.

Really great work Nick. Enjoy your work very much. Richard

Thank you so much Nick for sharing these useful and professional techniques.

Nick, great video; thanks so much for the post-processing tutorial to add to the earlier video of your workflow in the field. You manage to put across potentially complicated concepts is such an accessible, understandable manner. You're a star, man!

Thanks for a really great video on your processing techniques. Love your channel and hope you’ll be doing more videos more often. Your Astro photography is very inspiring.

Superb as always Nick! I tend to use your techniques in post-processing. Still, having watched your tutorial over and over, I learn something every time. This was no exception. Lots of great tips and insights!! Thanks much.

Wow, outstanding tutorial, thank you so much for your time and sharing this knowledge. Several great tips included such as using 100% saturation while setting the Temperature and the Lighten blend Mode and all very well explained.

Great Video!! Your style of explaining your process makes it look so easy even a caveman can do it. I really appreciate your tutorial videos!!

Thanks so much for this video! I’m new to photoshop and have been trying, unsuccessfully, to blend an image. This really helped! Thanks again!

Excellent tutorial, the use of Photoshop is much better then Lightroom. Your presentation is very well done and easy to understand, thanks!!!

Outstanding. You make this look so easy. As if your abilities as a photographer weren’t enough you have a gift for teaching too.

Wow! This hit so many of the buttons that I needed to have answered! Can’t thank you enough!

Thanks Nick. Great explanations and use of smart objects and layer mask not only for night photography but other genre too.

Great video. I have struggled with blending milky way images and this video has been extremely helpful. I will put many these techniques into practice. Thanks.

Nick, I just want to thank you for such useful video content. I got a lot out of this one and appreciate it. Thanks!

Glad to see you back, Nick! Cheers!

What I learned today: Lighten blend mode is your friend. Thank you for that nugget.

I never get tired of these processing videos. I attended your boot camp with Greg Benz and have consumed endless tutorials, but I feel like I forget more techniques than I remember, particularly when weeks or months pass between editing sessions. Always great to be reminded of the best processes and to pick up a few tips (sky selection). It makes me more confident editing and helps speed up the process when I am not casting about trying to remember how to do something.

Awesome.. I just started astrophotography and today was my 3rd session. And few minutes back I started to explore the raw images in Luminar AI and able to make some good reasonable outcome with my novice editing skills. Your video is like gods gift for me, thanks for the share some details of your experience.👍🏽👍🏽🔥😎

Thanks for sharing the process of making that photo Nick And of course some Orton Glow for Clarance

Awesome as always - Thank you for sharing your immense knowledge. My wife is buying me a space on one of your Oregon Coast Workshops. Can't wait

Wow what a great tutorial Nick, you covered so many aspects of editing, thank you very much..!!!

Love the video, you make it look so easy. Wish I could get half as good as you !! Keep up the awesome work Nick !!

Awesome video mate. Kept me riveted and I have the attention span of an insect. Appreciate your work.

Impressive! So many useful lessons large and small delivered at a relaxed pace, efficiently, with such clarity, a hallmark of your tutorial style.

I have to say bud, its nice to hear your voice and see your face again. Awesome tutorial, and presented so well keep em coming and hope to bump into you out at Mesa Arch some time, I'm guessing that's where this was taken lol.

Great video thanks. Man - select sky! Who Knew. Wow Ive spent hours refining the sky edge before. I'll give that a go next time.

Thank you for the information. Going to Lake Powell in Az this coming week and hope to get some night images to try these techniques out on.

This is great, thanks Nick, some really interesting tips. There's an old abandoned church close to where I live which is crying out for some astro and light painting, this will really help!

Thanks a lot Nick. I use ON1 Photo RAW not Adobe but I think I can translate most of those across. Some aspects are easier in ON1 others a bit harder. The sky mask accuracy was very impressive. Now all I need is some clear skies in my bit of England to actually see/shoot the Milky Way!!

Awesome tutorial. You should do more of these. Thanks.

Excellent tutorial Nick, very good job!

Super helpful! Thank you for this awesome workflow tutorial!

Hi Nick. Brilliant tutorial. So helpful. Thank you!

This is great information! I have a couple astro shots from our trip to Grand Teton last year that I haven't edited yet because I wasn't sure how. Now I'll give it a go and see what I come up with!

Enjoyed very much. Thank you Nick.🇫🇷🇪🇺🇫🇷

Thanks for Video - really taught me a different and maybe easier way of editing my Astro photography - Thanks Again

Great tutorial, Nick, thank you. I learnt a few new tricks😁

Thanks. Great video. I love to see other people's workflow.

Thank you for sharing your experience! Truly inspirational, now I've started thinking about places in my area where I can try something similar.

Superb Video Nick, I've just started using Smart objects and you have explained it in the most simple terms, Thanks very much!

Wow this is an awesome video! - thank you. Just got to try that Sky select feature - Many thanks for sharing - John

Nick, your tutorials are very helpful. It’s refreshing to see someone actually sharing ideas and workflow methods for us novices.

You make it look so easy Nick! Too bad it's not...lol. For me it's not anyway, even taking your own advice and following along best I can. I'll keep trying, thanks for all the help!!!

Nice tutorial Nick! Really enjoyed it!

I like watching your editing ninja skills. My H.S. photo club advisor told me , 50 years ago, see the image...take the image...make the image.

- Lovely tutorial, Nick!

Wow Nick, this was super helpful. Thank you

Banger of a tutorial Nick! As long as the smoke mellows out this weekend I should get some fun MW shots.

Thanks Nick, great video, I again learned a lot from you.

That was such a high quality tutorial

Wow!! I learned so much from your video, thanks for sharing.

Great content and super informative video. I always struggle with creating these dynamic night scenes and you've provided some great tips! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and step-by-step process.

Fantastic work again Nick

Thanks for the inspiration Nick, a superb tutorial! Have not used the select sky option as I've been "cheating" with the sky replacement tool and using the (perfect) mask it creates to adjust my skies. Going to save this to my "to do" folder.

Great information Nick. Thank you for sharing your expertise!

Always a pleasure to watch such nice and useful workflow tutorials! Thank you for this!

Excellent! This video came at the right time for me to start editing some recent astrophotography. You made the process so easy to understand - much appreciate your teaching style.

hey thank you, I might have to watch it several times to get your thought in my.

Absolutely illuminating tutorial Nick. I would certainly like to attend one of your astro workshops.

Natural teacher Nick - thanks

Great video, I've kinda been in a slump recently and this is exactly what I needed. Thank you sir!

Great video! You’re a fantastic teacher

What a great video Nick. You make it look so easy. Thank you for posting.

Thanks for the video Nick!! It’s really informative. 🙂

Very interesting, thank you! There is soooo much in Photoshop to learn...

Thanks Nick that was awesome. Some great tips snd tricks. Will certainly try it. Once we get some clear sky’s in Ireland :)

Well done Nick. Thank you!

Great job! 👍 It really helps me a lot! Thank you so much for sharing!

Great tips Nick. Thank you for sharing.

Super useful video Nick..thanks for sharing!

Perfect timing Nick! I have to give a presentation to my camera club for an upcoming Milky Way field trip next weekend. This will be a perfect addition for our members to use when processing. Great video. Thanks Nick!

What a priceless tutorial! Thanks Nick, even my kids could understand ( wait I don’t have kids 😅, well it was super clear👍🏼)

So helpful; big fan. Keep up the great work brother.

Thank you for this clean tutorial !

Great video Nick...love when people take the time to really go through things properly, very appreciative.

Really excellent video, Nick.

Great video Nick. Thank you for sharing

You make things look pretty easy. Thank you so much for sharing, Nick.

Super helpful and well explained. Thanks!

Fantastic work Nick, great to see tour approach to editing.

Awesome video! Thanks!! This will really help in the future!

Very interesting! I was wondering how you did that from the last video so thanks for sharing Nick

Thanks Nick, that was a superbly explained process!

Really enjoyed the video Nick!!

Thank you very much for this excellent tutorial! Just what I needed to take my astrophotography to the next level.