How to Edit Milky Way Photos in Photoshop in 15 MINUTES or Less 

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

I shoot in auto WB and correct in post if needed. Those settings were for the foreground, as I did a blue hour blend.

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Thanks so much!

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I haven’t used Elements in a long time, so I’m not quite sure. You’ll have to try it out. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

@@AustinJamesJackson , I've had a quick look and there are certainly some aspects of full Photoshop that I was unaware of and that I can usefully adopt in Elements so thank you for pointing me in the right direction

I create the inverted mask to apply edits to the foreground and then separate edits to the background. Inverting the mask to put on the other group allows me to edit both separately!

@@AustinJamesJackson I understand you want to edit separately, but you don't need both. Once you create the mask for the sky, you can edit the foreground without a mask and it will not affect your sky. I'm still not sure why you're creating both.

I’ve created two different groups (folders), where one holds the sky adjustments and one holds the foreground adjustments. If I put the mask for the sky on one group where I want to edit the sky, it only applies to everything in this group. When I create the second group, if I apply edits inside the group it will apply to the whole image, including the sky, and I only want to edit the foreground. So I need another layer mask of just the foreground to restrict everything under this group.

@@AustinJamesJackson Austin…you have masked out the sky of your foreground. I’ve been using one mask for 6+ years now. Who cars what happens to the foreground sky. It doesn’t matter since you’re sky mask hides it.

I have no idea what you mean by “foreground sky”. Do you have a time stamp when you are referring to? Either I don’t understand what you are trying to say or you aren’t sure what I’m trying to do. I’ve rewatched the video again and there is no way I could have done what I did with only a single mask.

I do not! It’s easy enough to remove stars in Photoshop without a plugin in my opinion!

@@AustinJamesJackson but this puts them on a layer so you can process the MW cloud and reduce noise then add back in

What version do you have?

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