Creating North Star Trails in Photoshop using a single shot

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Create the popular North Star trails in Photoshop with this powerful and simple technique using just a single shot of the night sky. Enjoy!
Now you can be more flexible at your locations and spend time creating a variety of compositions instead of spending hours at a single spot and taking hundreds of shots to create star trails later. [Tip: Just make a note of the position of the North star at location to create an authentic star trail with the correct position of the North star.]
To see how you can create vortex star trails or a meteor shower star trails, check out the other videos on this channel.
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@javiercanale1287 8 лет назад

Thanks a lot Hammad!! Very well explained, awesome outcomes!!!

@horrgakx 10 лет назад

Excellent! Just need to get an image of the night sky...

@divved 9 лет назад

Wicked, took some time to get it feeling and looking right but this was really helpful x thankyou so much!!

@jbphotography9455 8 лет назад

Wonderful Tutorial, the only thing I noticed that I had to change with in Photoshop was going from Essentials mode to Photography mode or else "Actions" was not available. I dont know if this was an update done or what but after I switched it worked perfectly! Thank you so much!!!

@acnumber7 9 лет назад

Excellent job with this tutorial, Hammad! It helped me a lot, thank you for this video!

@Gooseridez 10 лет назад

Very cool indeed! Thank you kindly! :)

@dara-xw6sj 9 лет назад

So amazing great tutorial

@pescarull 9 лет назад

Big like, saves the camera life :)

@Libanass 9 лет назад

+pescarull but kills the fun of it, and ruins the nature of the night sky if you don't point it exactly on the celestial pole next to Polaris ;)

@LOVEALICEJEWELS 5 лет назад

Thank you! I just found your tutorial in DPS. I don’t have the option of taking hundreds of photos due to limits on my equipment and budget, so I think this is a great alternative!

@HammadIqbalPhoto 5 лет назад

You are welcome :) And indeed, it's a great alternative that was born out of necessity

@DJHaworth 8 лет назад

Nicely done.... subscribed

@SportsFotos42 10 лет назад

excellent mate... well done.

@BilalArifBawany 10 лет назад

Awesome bro

@peymanshakoori4284 7 лет назад

thumbs up hammad . nice tutorial

@rafaelorozco5702 10 лет назад

Thanks for the Tutorial, Great!

@sanvidbhoir134 7 лет назад

thats soo awesome thanks for the video

@Brightwoodphotos 10 лет назад

I'm running into problem after problem doing this with landscape elements in the foreground. Any tips on how to deal with them? I tried making a duplicate layer with the foreground elements deleted but that's not working too well...

@TheBeachdoode 9 лет назад

Awesome Tutorial Hammad !!...

@HammadIqbalPhotography 9 лет назад

+Rob sut Thank you Rob

@ladydania22 10 лет назад

thank you @Gary Young.

@guillaumefo 9 лет назад

thanks !

@Nachiket8007977451 10 лет назад

What if there is something in the foreground just like the reference image you had shown? It isn't going well if there is a foreground in the frame using this technique. Please let us know what you do in such a senario.

@banky405 10 лет назад

thank you very much!! :D

@traavel_bug 7 лет назад

Good hack for those who can't go out in wild ..

@Hwang_Over 8 лет назад

Great tutorial. Do you have a video that shows you blending the startrails you created with another photo? Thanks in advance

@HammadIqbalPhotography 8 лет назад

+Andrew H Thanks Andrew. I haven't yet made a tutorial for compositing stars with another photo.

@Hwang_Over 8 лет назад

Thanks for the response. If you were planning on it, I would be interested to see how you get the star trails to blend seamlessly into your standard night photos without haloing like your shot at 0:24. Trees are the hardest to blend for me.

@ryanjohnson8854 9 лет назад

Sweet video. But can I play it more than 10 times and get more trails? It in your other video I did it 80 times. If I go high than 80 with I get more trails?

@HammadIqbalPhotography 9 лет назад

Yes you can do it more than 80 times. Experiment and see.

@gyanrosling2226 7 лет назад

great tutorial! would it be possible to create the streaking star trail effect that shows up when polaris is behind the camera?

@HammadIqbalPhoto 7 лет назад

If Polaris is behind the camera, then the camera is facing South, which would make the trail appear curvy beginning at lower left of the frame and progressing upwards in a curve to the center and then back down to the lower right in a curve. That, is not possible to simulate for a number of reasons.

@nihalbhat9853 6 лет назад

can you please post the link for the night sky .thanks :)

@treszce13 10 лет назад

Why bother going out and take a photo of the night sky? Just release the shutter with the lens cap on any time of day. Voila, you got a night sky shot. Open your night sky shot in PS and make stars of any color, then do the rest of the tutorial. I'm sorry but I do not agree with your way of creating star trails. There is no sense of pride in doing this.

@ndulge0 8 лет назад

The way I see it is, you have gone and done it a few times by spending hours outdoors in the cold night air. You show it to your followers or fan/client base. People have seen your star trail landscapes. Your now known for producing nice images. You now don't have to spend hours in the cold every single time you want to do a star trail image, why not use this technique considering it achieves the EXACT same results ? I do see your point though don't get me wrong.

@peymanshakoori4284 7 лет назад

are u kidding ? why take 300 shot and spend a lot of time and also fuck the camera ? its just a good way with the same result just u save ur camera and most important thing in life "ur expensive time" . its dose not making any sense to spend a lot of time for a single star trail shot when u can make the same result with this way

@joepolophotography 4 года назад

who cares

@Rommel5321 8 лет назад

Hey Hammad Iqbal. Awesome Video, and I got great results using it. However, I'm just wondering if by any chance would you know why my Transform Pivot Point would go to a different location then what I had set it to starting from the step of doing 1 degree rotations. I ended up having to manually enter the pixel location for all the transformations after the 10 stacks of .1 degrees.

@HammadIqbalPhotography 8 лет назад

+Rommel Artola The issue is common if you are using Photoshop version above 2013. It's surely a software bug from Adobe.

@Rommel5321 8 лет назад

Awesome, thank you so much for your hasty reply!!

@lockon3120 8 лет назад

can i get the action for that star trail? :(

@DenseCloudz 7 лет назад

For some reason, when I get to the part where you change it from 0.3 to 1, there is a distinct gap between the trails. What am I doing wrong? Followed it step by step

@HammadIqbalPhoto 7 лет назад

Make sure you are following the steps as follows: - Apply 0.1 degree rotation x 10 times / Merge the 10 new layers - Change the rotation value to 1 degree / Play the action 5 times / Merge the 5 new layers - Change rotation value to 5 degree / Play the action 5 times / Merge the 5 new layers - For the trails to form in CCW direction, change the rotation value to -25 degree / Play the action 1 time

@KaushikChakrabortyikc 8 лет назад

HI @Hammad, I am new to photoshop. You tutorial is awesome. Problem I have an image wherein a segment of it are the star and not the entire image. I just the want the sky to rotate and not transform the entire image. You showed an image similar to that in the beginning but you gave the demo on a complete night sky without any foreground object. Can you please share a demo onto how do I apply this same on an image with foreground object ?? Would be really helpful,.,,, Thanks in advance

@vatsalpanchmatia2020 8 лет назад

+Kaushik Chakraborty 1. Select the foreground image 2. Create a mask 3. Fill out the 'selected' part with the fill tool 4. Follow his steps on this new image 5. After all that is done clip the mask onto the final star trails image This should help!

@DJHaworth 8 лет назад

+Vatsal Panchmatia fill with what Vatsal? if there a way using the mask to delete the foreground from the stars?

@VasuTrivedi 9 лет назад

How do you set it on other photo?

@HammadIqbalPhotography 9 лет назад

+Vasu Trivedi Once you finish the trails, you can blend it with another photo in Photoshop using layer masks.

@garyyoung4549 10 лет назад

when i go from the 0.01 stage ... i merge the 10 layers .. i do what you instruct but the rotation point dosnt see to stay in the same place ..can you help

@HammadIqbalPhotography 10 лет назад

Hi Gary, the only reason that could happen is if the free transform step is not recorded in the action. Make sure to watch the video again in HD so you dont miss anything. For further questions, please send me a private message to my facebook page. Thanks.

@smartphotography 10 лет назад

I'm having the same problem. Using Photoshop CC it all works fine running the action at 0.1 degrees. As soon as I overtype the rotation to 1 degree it seems to reset the rotation point to the centre... What am I doing wrong?

@Druffi 9 лет назад

smartphotography same here :) i used the radial blur tool instead then...

@garyyoung4549 9 лет назад

Lets face it hammad just dosnt work but i appreciate the effort

@HammadIqbalPhotography 9 лет назад

The pivot point doesnt seem to stay in the same place on versions below CC. Same issue has been reported by some other users who aren't using Photoshop CC.

@ishootinraw1 7 лет назад

TRIED THIS ABOUT 8 TIMES AND RE DID THE ACTION SEVERAL TIMES AND IT DID NOT WORK. THERE ARE DOTTED LINES AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN IN ALIGNMENT. PLEASE ADVISE. P'SHOP CC. THANKS

@HammadIqbalPhoto 7 лет назад

Some people have had the same issue with certain versions of Photoshop (below version CC usually). Unfortunately, the issue is not with the action or how to make the action, it's just in the way the action is played in certain versions of Photoshop, and I have no solution for it.

@ishootinraw1 7 лет назад

It does not work on my P'shop cc. It does work on P'shop cs6 ! Thanks for the video. I'll be discussing with Adobe in the near future. Thanks again....

@raghavsudarshan9739 10 лет назад

What If there are Objects in the foreground?? Hammad Iqbal

@HammadIqbalPhotography 9 лет назад

+Raghav Sudarshan Sorry for the late response. Its better to take a photo of the sky without a large object in the foreground so you dont run into the issue. Important thing is that the object should not block the sky.

@DevinChristopher1207 7 лет назад

Hi Hammad, thank you for the great tutorial! However, when I changed the rotation to 1 degree and apply it, it doesn't make the trail longer but it makes the stars misplaced instead, so that the star trails have gaps on it and it also creates some kind of twin stars. The only way to make it nice is not to change the rotation so I have to keep using the 0.1 degree rotation to make it look good but it takes too much time. Is there any way you can help me ? That would be great! Thanks before! :)

@DevinChristopher1207 7 лет назад

Nevermind, I figured a way when I read the description. If you guys have the same problem you should make a note of the position of the North star and you have to input it each time you transform. Though I hope there's a way that this could be done automatically like in Hammad's video. :))

@HammadIqbalPhoto 7 лет назад

Some Photoshop users have experienced the same issue in which the position of the pivot point changes every time the action is run. I have not been able to understand the reason for this issue.

@atropicali 5 лет назад

S U P E R B..

@mrroberts6934 8 лет назад

i get this problem when using Photoshop CC i.imgur.com/NI6Tb3y.png?1

@DevinChristopher1207 7 лет назад

I got that problem too, have you managed to fix it ?

@Teeb2023 7 лет назад

A nifty trick, but ultimately kinda sad. A huge part of successful, fulfilling astrophotography is being out there, capturing the shot(s).

@mull80s 6 лет назад

Agreed. He didn't need to even go outside his door.

@gd515051 3 года назад

Or you could learn photography.

@MrBluesfly 5 лет назад

This is not Photography.

@AlanBilsborough 5 лет назад

Ha ha that's hilarious, all the astro photographers freezing their bollocks off for hours - I don't see any difference between your results and theirs.