In this video I show some more advanced Milky Way processing techniques! Here is the TIFF file I used! Feel free to download and practice with me! drive.google.com/file/d/1XtGn...
Thanks. That was helpful. I followed along editing an image of my own, taking notes along the way. The details of my image were quite different (all-sky fisheye shot under a Bortle 1 sky with cooled CMOS OSC camera), but your workflow (with minor variations) was applicable, and I learned some new PS gambits. Your tutorial style is clear, logical, thorough, and comfortably paced. Much appreciated.
I am just starting with developing my first milkyway photos. Your video is exceptionally good. Thank you for your explanation. The different steps are very well explained.
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I've been looking for a MW tutorial and my friend sent me a link to this one. I love how you take your time between steps, so that I can follow along. Appreciate this so much!
Wow first time using Photoshop for me and you made it look so easy. I have a tone of notes so hopefully with practice my light polluted milky way cores will start to pop. Thanks so much for an easy to follow along tutorial. Very much appreciated
Thanks so much for sharing this! I learned so much! I've been doing milky way astro for a while now and there's so much to learn with using Photoshop for editing.
Great tutorial, layer masks have been eluding me recently, will certainly try to apply this process to my deep space images! Thanks for the "easy to follow" work flow 👍🏻
Thanks so much for this wonderful tutorial. I had fantastic raw data but I could not process it . You can't believe how my image has turned out to be . I followed each step you gave. Thabks very much
I'm so glad I could help! Please check out my newest Milky Way tutorial! I'll be doing a new one every summer! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z4D9R0S-iOQ.html
Very well done!!! I like your method. I do similar adjustments but I live in an area with more light pollution so my stacking method is a little different in the beginning. But when I get to shoot in dark skies, I make small adjustments before stacking. Then photoshop for final editing. Excellent work!!!
Awesome. I am trying to learn to improve my astro/ milky way processing. This seems to very easy to follow and effective. i can actually see myself using the information presented here. Thank YOU
Great vid man! Have really been struggling to process milky way photos in PS recently, especially dealing with light pollution in the horizon. Cant wait to try your workflow!
Light pollution in the horizon is so annoying! The best way to deal with it is to take the foreground and background separately. Some people consider that cheating. It never has bothered me too much. You have to take them separately when you use a star tracker!
@@deltaastrophotography True! I have tried doing that and blending them back in PS..But still there's this annoying yellowish color wash over the horizon. Can't beat taking photos in truly dark skies I guess!
This is by far the best MW editing tutorial I've seen, and I have seen a lot of those! Step by step, no rushing, easy to follow. This made me finally sit and start working on my photos. The only problem I have is blending, my foregrounds are usually pitch black and in order to make the photo more interesting I will have to blend in a blue hour shot - any chance you could make a video on that? 🙂
Brilliant Video >> At 70 I have just started Milky Way so I will follow this Video as if it is a ONE shot image >> stacking will come later..Little steps Lol at my age
Hey have you considered working with luminosity masks or photoshop panels like the Pro Panel from John Weatherby...I have found it pretty essential to my workflow now since I've used it a couple of years
Great video. I have been using 12 stack in Sequator. How much more noise reduction benefit are you getting at 60? Do you use any of the AI options it offers?
I have a question I have a cheaper lens and a lot of the bigger stars are purple and blue because of chromatic aberration is there any way to reduce that or maybe even delete all the stars that are that color??
Thanks... This was a great tutorial. I'm looking for tips in how to process images taken using light pollution filters. I recently acquired an Optolong L-pro filter and I am looking into how to process the images. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
Hey mate lately started watching your videos and building up interests on astrophotography Can you please try to shoot the 7p/pons wennicke comet ☄️ and is it possible with a lens currently i own sigma 150-600mm on a aps-c camera
Congratulations! I am not a native English speaker but easy to follow and very well structured (Already "Like" and subscribe), with a powerfull and natural result!!!. Despite the fact I am an Affinity Photo user I think I can follow all the steps. Just a couple of questions: - Do you not integrate WB adjustment in your process flow? - What do you think about some Nik preset to be applied? Many thanks!!!
I like your video. FYI… the stretching of the stars at the outside of your image is called coma. If you stop down about 2 stops or more, you can eliminate all or most of it.
Hi how are you? I have a nikon d3500 (a camera for beginners) and my question is: how much do I get for a full frame? (a nikon d780, for example) PS. I use a wide angle lens, AF-S Nikkor 20mm 1.8
Hey man hello. Thanks for the video. How do we uncover the Rho Ophiuchi section in the Milky Way photo by processing and painting? Can you tell me about it?
Thank you so much for this video. I spent Sunday night shooting and still have to stack my photos but I'll do all the editing following your tutorial. You are very clear, a very logical and natural step by step edit. Congratulations on the final result and on your dedication. One question, I usually start my edits (LR) with the colour temperature. Not that I would change anything in your photo, but I was wondering, did you fix it before the stacking process? Do you do any edit to your raws prior to stacking? Thanks again.
I occasionally do work on my temperature balance of the raws before I stack! It just depends on if I think it needs it or not. I think I did that in my Orion processing video!
Wow, 60 light frames and 20 dark frames! I thought I was doing good shooting 25 light frames and 2 dark frames. At what point do you get diminished returns on results with how many frames you shoot?
Quick question, and I apologize in advance if it has already been answered. In the first video you did some light editing. Does this video start with that edited image or the image straight out of Sequator?
I had a few goes and despite having an identical camera (FTX adaptor and 20mm Nikon lens) and settings and the results weren’t great. Hard to believe the results you achieved before editing. Anyway I had better results with the Alyn Wallace work flow and brushes.
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Hi i am just starting astrofotography. I was wandering what deep sky objects are good to begin with? My situation: i have a DSLR (Pentax krop) , a 120-400mm lens and a skywatcher star adventurerer pro. I am still waiting for clear skies (Netherlands) because is raining a lot here. I was thinking about Andromeda but that one is verry low in the sky and its extremely light poluted over here. Can you give some starter tips foir deep sky?
Hi! It's been cloudy here a lot lately as well! You have a similar setup to mine! Andromeda is best in the Fall months! The Orion Nebula is the best beginner object, but you'll have to wait for winter. This summer you could try the Milky Way Core, The Lagoon Nebula, The Eagle Nebula, Rho Ophiuchi, The Veil Nebula, The North America Nebula, and The Pelican Nebula! The first few might be the easiest. I would definitely invest in some light pollution filters and an autoguiding setup before winter gets here! You are going to have a great time in the winter with all the amazing beginner targets! Good luck and clear skies. Feel free to reach out and ask questions any time!
Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I believe that's the hide command to hide the marching ants around the stars during star reduction. That's an optional step. Try just skipping it and moving on to the filter/other/minimum part. After you have performed the action press command D to deselect. Or go to the Select menu at the top and choose deselect. Hope this helps!
Hopefully someone can help me. Im very new to photoshop! when i create the layer and add an adjustment to it it dose not link into the layer as shown here. I have to manually merge the layer down. Also after creating multiple layers it seems like it only applies the newest layer to the image its not showing all my adjustments. Hopefully this makes sense
FYI you can merge layers unlimitedly without losing data. Unlike what you saw from the uploader of this clip, you can simply repeat the process of having 1 or 2 layers with the background layer by merging them (right click after selecting the layers, merge layers). So instead of having a pile of layers, you can just quickly get the process done. Also when you save it make sure to merge visible layers and make it 1 background layer, bc of the file size (samething with saving to lightroom through ps). I hope you understood.
Also if you want to make adjustment tabs such as vibrance, press alt+left click inbetween the tab adjustment and the layer. You see an arrow thingy which is called clipping the tabs to the layer. It will only affect the layer you clip it to.
Just something to think about - if someone doesn't know what the hot keys are, or aren't being told "This hotkey is this option located here in the menu" it isn't very useful to newer people to photoshop. I would have to continuously refer to this video to deselect marching ants instead of knowing where the look in the menu. Generally it's easier and more helpful to show people WHERE something is rather than memorizing hotkeys. The video is great, though.
