How To Edit The Moon | Stacking In Photoshop

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In this video I show you how to edit the moon, or how I edit the moon anyway. I start in Adobe Lightroom with some basic image adjustments then move over to editing the moon in Adobe Photoshop.
Stacking moon images is great for reducing noise and improving the detail in the moon so I give a quick tutorial on how I do this.
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@pdemkovich 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@ChrisBaitson 10 месяцев назад

Thanks man!

@ClarkVistan 5 месяцев назад

Four years later, and this is still the best tutorial compared to others I've watched! Great job!

@anthonyhaber4169 2 года назад

Perfect example of how a tutorial should be done! made it easy for even a dumb ass like me to follow and get right first time . Thanks 😊

@robinc-k7162 15 дней назад

What a great video, thanks! I will be trying this on the images I took of the Moon last night. I really enjoyed your calm instruction and loved the music selection! 😊

@xpanderxsert2613 2 года назад

I followed this process. Used Levenhuk telescope 1500mm,127mm,f11.8 to take Moon pictures with Canon EOS90D. Looking very nice after joining 50 pics together. Thanks for this video!

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

No problem. Glad it helped. Would love to see the finished image.

@BT.MediaCT Год назад

Three years later and this is still an amazing tutorial. Thank you!

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

Thank you.

@chrisbullett1513 3 года назад

This was really helpful! Very concise and easy to follow, my image looks great at the end too

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Glad the video helped you out 🤘🏻

@Mashumero Год назад

New to moon photography. This was the best tutorial I’ve seen! Thank you so much.

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

Thank you I’m glad it helped you!!!

@arkiesam 3 года назад

Great video! Thanks for this Chris, I just made my first stacked moon image, made up with it!

@sarahmitchell7390 3 года назад

Great tutorial, at a nice steady pace, easy to follow and I have now subscribed. Look forward to seeing more of your tutorials.

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Thank you for the feedback Sarah. This was one of my first videos. Hope it helped you out 🤘🏻

@Gavla13 3 месяца назад

I could watch this all day bro so relaxing 😅

@MrTarikBedevi 3 года назад

Quality tutorial there mate. Thank you

@TheSoundOfNature151 Год назад

Thank you, this was really helpful, I just started using light-room and sometimes can be overwhelming, and videos like yours really help me a lot.

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

It can be a little intimidating at first but you’ll soon get the hang of it!

@11jbywater 5 месяцев назад

This is amazing! Thanks for showing me! I’ve always wondered lol

@johnwheeler5271 2 года назад

Great video and Tutorial.Thankyou.

@luismorgan2422 3 года назад

Took some last night and followed the process along while watching your video. Made it very easy thanks. Only thing was I didn't manage at first to find which file was the stacked one in LrC when it saved but then realised it was a Tif file. Thanks for sharing, very easy to do again now :)

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Thanks for watching and glad you found the video helpful.

@donaldmoore9211 3 года назад

First...THANKS!!! I agree with another post that it was at a good pace and having never used PS it was easy to follow. I was watching a couple other videos on stacking and in one they mentioned a way to reduce the file size.

@bigred7271 Год назад

Great video, Chris. Really easy to follow and great results. Top tip - if you want to get the moon central in the frame, in PhotoShop draw a circle the same size as it on a layer above - drop the transparency so that you can line it up - and then use that circle to frame the image. Once you're happy, hide the circle layer and your moon should be exactly where you want it.

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

Great tip! I’m going to try that next time I do this.

@jsbphoto Месяц назад

Awesome video...thank you!

@dsm363 3 года назад

Great video. Thanks!

@stevep6416 3 года назад

Good tutorial. Easy to follow and with a successful outcome. Cheers mate.

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Glad it helped you out. I might head out and grab one of the moon now. Not a lot else we can do at the moment.

@yetiimp 9 месяцев назад

Is there a reason as to why my stacked image looks blurry after using the "median" stack mode, even though all of my pictures were perfectly aligned?

@ChrisBaitson 9 месяцев назад

The only thing I can suggest is double check the alignment

@yetiimp 9 месяцев назад

@@ChrisBaitson I tried aligning them manually using the "difference" blend mode and that gave me near-perfect results, so I think Photshop just has a bad time alligning my photos. Thanks anyway!

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Don’t forget to subscribe to see more from me! Let me know down below what you think? Did the video help you?

@FrancoVoda 3 года назад

after your tutorial im finally able to stack my mindblowing 18 shots of the waning crescent :D thx!

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Glad I was able to help! 18 shots is more than I’ve managed to take in a while so well done! I’d love to see the end result!

@FrancoVoda 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson too cloudy? :( Well, i think im gonna post it on my instagram, ill send you a request if you want

@zyairelian8560 3 года назад

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@clydekalel4284 3 года назад

@Zyaire Lian yup, I've been using instaflixxer for since december myself =)

@nengartmania 2 года назад

I got the nice process from your advice...Thank you very much

@SaySarah 2 года назад

Great and easy to follow tutorial!! a rare find

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

Thanks Sarah.

@Nicomelben76 3 года назад

Thanks Chris. Really helpful video. Now better photo shot in Normandy yesterday night.

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

No problem Nico. Glad you found the video helpful 🤘🏻

@kiritengineer7506 3 года назад

Thanks Very good. Will try this sir

@nikeshjoelsenthilkumar8235 6 месяцев назад

You're amazing bruv!

@Richie_ Год назад

Nice one, I did my 1st Moon shoot last night and this video will help.

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

Oh nice one. Hope the video helps!

@bermondseyboy88 Год назад

Perfect time to watch this, full moon tomorrow night and hoping to shoot something I’ve not shot before!

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

How did you get on with shooting the moon?

@bermondseyboy88 Год назад

@@ChrisBaitson I actually did a lot better after watching your video! Far from perfect but I was resting my lens on a window ledge so not the best!

@bermondseyboy88 Год назад

@@ChrisBaitson but yeah a much better attempt after watching this tutorial! 💪🏻

@enchodus 7 месяцев назад

thanks a lot great video!!!!

@robinmay-davis3209 Год назад

So helpful!!!❤

@ChrisBaitson Год назад

Thank you Robin!

@markhenderson55 3 года назад

Thanks for this tutorial, it's just what i've been looking for a method for stacking lunar images without having to download extra software. I got a great picture from 10 that I took last week. Now I have to set aside some time to stack the 80 that I took on Sunday night.

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Glad you found the video helpful Mark. Sometimes things get over complicated when you can use what you already have.

@mastroitek 2 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson Thx so much for this video, I'm now stacking 350 images of the Moon! My laptop is crying but I bet the result will be amazing. Is incredible what it is possible to do with a 10y old camera and an entry level zoom lens!

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

Yeah my MacBook hates me when I do things like this. The moon is so easy to shoot and edit though. Glad you found it helpful. Hope the result is nice.

@mastroitek 2 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson i love the final result, your tutorial was really helpful, also the part about bringin up the details was essential for me since the lense I have loses quite a bit of sharpnes at 200mm+ focal length.

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

@@mastroitek This can be true of a lot of lenses. Even my 70-200 L lens seems a little softer at the long end. Glad it helped though.

@GandaPrakasa 2 года назад

Hi, thank you for this, I learned something new from you today. Cheers mate.🍻

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

Glad you found it helpful! Hope your final image looks great 😊

@GandaPrakasa 2 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson Tnx, it looks good, but not even close to your result. Gotta shoot more photo now. 🍻

@jerryfigeraldi9527 2 года назад

Thank you so much!

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

You’re welcome. Hope it helped.

@mick3para 11 месяцев назад

Very good video. Good to hear a fellow northerner.

@PropPlanePat 3 года назад

Thanks for this Chris a really helpful tutorial which I was able to easily follow through! I tried this with 650 layers...boy did that take a long time :) Sub +1

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Glad you found it helpful. Yeah it can take some time with a lot of images but it really makes that final image look a lot more polished. I’d love to see the final image when it’s done.

@PropPlanePat 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson Cheers Chris, I pinged you on Insta :)

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

What’s your Instagram handle. It popped up on my phone but can’t find it on Instagram. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@PropPlanePat 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson pat_tickner_photography

@yetiimp 9 месяцев назад

How did you manage to stack that many photos without having any type of motion blur? I stacked around 10 (bearing in mind they were all perfectly aligned) and yet they were blurry and didn't stack smoothly @@PropPlanePat

@jonathanpollack3203 3 года назад

I have an old 1000mm lens and was wondering if you had any tips for possibly pre-processing the images for sharpness before stacking etc. Great tutorial!

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

What’s the lens? I would suggest going into Lightroom and using the sharpening mask. Goto sharpen, hold shift and slide the masking slider until just the outlines of craters are in white. Use a low-ish strength of say 15/20

@patryciadube4847 3 года назад

I am trying to figure out if there is a benefit to using PIPP and Registax over just photoshop alone. This picture looks so beautiful!

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

I’ve not used either to comment as I find Photoshop works just fine for this.

@ranjanamitnp 10 месяцев назад

Great tutorial ! Please explain how stacking more photos like 50 will help compared to 10.

@ChrisBaitson 10 месяцев назад

If you stack more photos you will have less noise and more detail. More photos is better in this case.

@breyton490 3 года назад

QQ.. Why not also do an Auto Blend to address any focus issues? Would that not help in this scenario or did you feel all three images were properly focused? I have seen other videos of focus stacking and thought this may be a scenario that process could help as well. Also, fantastic video. It helped me take some great pictures of the moon recently.

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Thanks for the comment. I see your point but focus stacking only really applies Jen you’re shouting a very narrow depth of field. Such as macro subjects at F1.8. The stacking then increases the depth of field - the area of focus. The moon is so far away that focus stacking wouldn’t really change anything.

@sallymally6892 2 года назад

quick question ..try to stack a few images of moon I took ..was trying to stack them in PS..but it keeps telling me that the photos have to overlap by at least 40%....i cropped it and moon's position is roughly similar in all photos...What could be going on ?...only thing I can think of some wisps of clouds were passing through..?

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

Try cropping out a bit. More black and smaller moon then crop back in once photoshop has stacked them. Usually solves that one for me.

@jeffburrows2354 2 года назад

Hi Chris, Photoshop won't align my photos. I have a series during the recent lunar eclipse, so the moon isn't super bright however there is a portion of the moon still in light. The error message is that PS expects at least 40% overlap and it can't find it.

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

I’ve had this before - counter intuitive but if you crop out a little bit more and leave more black around the moon it should help PS work out which bit to align.

@vath29 3 года назад

Hey Chris, all your photos was taking with the same parameters o different parameters?, I like your method, i think so is more easy, because I do some similar, I do a compilation of 3 pictures bracketing style, ISO and Aperture same I just change the velocity of shooting, by to get a picture sub, over exposure and a normal picture, and I make merge in LR and process too...

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Thanks for the comment. Yeah all of the images have the same capture settings. The moon doesn’t really have a lot of dynamic range to really need a HDR merge doing.

@vath29 3 года назад

Thanks bro, I did it like you did it, nothing bad... Was a great picture

@paiged186 Год назад

Amazing tutorial that was simple and easy to follow - exactly what tutorials should be. I use it exclusively to edit my moon shots for eclipses, specifically. For those getting the 40% error, I just skip this step in images where the error message occurs. If you can't align the layers because of that error, you cannot stack them. Just skip those steps and follow the rest of the tutorial.

@bena9649 3 года назад

Hey, nice tutorial... When i try to auto align layers in photoshop it always says the images need to overlap by 40% or more which to me they obviously are... The problem is that to photoshop there is around 60-70% or blackness with lots of noise which is different in each picture and it therefor cant align them... Only If i crop the images down untill one can basically only see the moon does it actually align the layers. In your photos you have quite a lot of blackness though and it still works... Any idea why that is?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

I’ve ran into this a few times myself and the only way around it that I’ve found is to do what you said above and just crop tighter to the moon. If you want black sky around then you can always “fake it” by aligning them, stacking them, and then increasing the canvas size from the Image tab at the top and then adding a black layer below the moon. Hope this helps.

@ameenahsan9696 3 года назад

is it like u shot all those moon images in constant aperture ss and all? or bracketed images all the time? if u could answer quick would be helpful cz tdy is another full moon

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

They’re all the same settings. No need to bracket the moon.

@ameenahsan9696 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson a tons of thank you t you for telling me that tip

@ameenahsan9696 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson btw if it is same settimgs how does it actually help in stacking?

@belissen 2 года назад

Hi Chris, I'm really happy with this video because its exactly want I want to do (found it through Googling "moon photography fotoshop stacking"), however... I have a decent set of moon photos that I want to stack but after 1:1 cropping it gave a really distorted stack with the moon not aligned and for the second try without cropping it gives the 40% warning. Do you have a suggestion what to do?

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

Try less of a crop to begin with and see if it will align better.

@belissen 2 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson Wow, thanks for the quick reply! The problem is that the uncropped set gave the 40% error when trying to stack. From there I cannot uncrop. The moon doesn't shift that much and used 850mm lens effectively (600 + x1.4 extenfder) so still quiet alot of black

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

@@belissen You’ve got me stumped here. I’ll try get back to you when I’ve had a think. Only thing I can think off from the top of my head is manually uncrop. Add all your photos onto a larger black background and export them and try again.

@rhysjones3846 3 года назад

Really well explained! Even I understood what to do, unfortunately when I hit the auto align photoshop goes on a mad one and none of them line up! Any ideas?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Does it give an error message complaining that the layers don’t overlap enough?

@rhysjones3846 3 года назад

Nope, it tries to do it but skew lots of them and changes the angle on others! Might be the quality of image? (Although I thought they were good!)

@alienxyt 2 года назад

What do you accomplish by stacking pics that you couldn't have done using a single image?

@ChrisBaitson 2 года назад

Reduce noise. Increase detail.

@PatrickGuerrisi 3 года назад

Can you stack pictures of the moon with different settings?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Yeah you can do that I just prefer to keep the settings the same but there’s no reason it wouldn’t work.

@PatrickGuerrisi 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson I had to change settings a bit for the blood moon

@ayazmahmud7353 3 года назад

What was you camera lens/setting for this shot?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

I used a Canon 200D and a cheap 75-300mm. If you’d like to see the settings there’s a video on my channel about it.

@michaelgardner6686 2 года назад

When I select all of the pictures in Lightroom and right click it does not give me the option to edit in photoshop or open as layers.

@traveldiaries8135 3 года назад

Very helpful and very clear tutorial. Thank You and of course subscribe :)

@Dances_With_Skies 3 года назад

Your tutorial is great but I ran into a problem right off the bat. That little "sync" button isn't there. Do you know why that may be? I've tried searching Help but it's of no... help.

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Shoot me a DM on Instagram and I’ll try and help you figure out.

@Dances_With_Skies 3 года назад

Chris Baitson Photography I think I figured out what is going on here. I believe there was a brand new update recently so some of the controls aren’t in the same place and some of the methods you’re using have been turned into working functions of the update with different names. I’m brand new to the Adobe world so I don’t know the older versions at all. Lightroom has a “merge” function written right into the program now which does the layered stacking you show in your video with a couple clicks. Before it even does this it scans the images and tells you if there are enough similarities between photos to continue or not so you don’t get half way through a lengthy process only to find out it won’t work.

@JoseGonzalez-lh8dj 3 года назад

Hi Chris, great tutorial. When I stack to median, my moon disappears as if it is too dark. Why is this?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Hi Jose. Median stacking takes the average for each pixel and assigns that value so it’s possible your photos are a little dark to begin with. What settings did you use to capture? I have a video on photographing the moon on my channel if it helps.

@JoseGonzalez-lh8dj 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson Hi Chris, thanks for your response. I just used your video on how take pictures of the moon and applied it to my pictures, and they came out great. I took 171 good photos. However, now when I try to auto align them, my photshop seems to freeze in the auto aligning process about a quarter of the way in. Don't know why this is happening now.

@JoseGonzalez-lh8dj 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson are 171 photos too much?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Did you get them to align? It can take some time for it to work especially given the number of layers it’s trying to align. 171 will give you nice results though. But the alignment does take time and it will appear to freeze.

@JoseGonzalez-lh8dj 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson Hi Chris, you are right. It took a while but it finished aligning. Thank you for the help, I have subscribed!

@daraptor6371 3 года назад

What is the music called???

@PatrickGuerrisi 3 года назад

Whats better at this Registax or Photoshop ?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

I can’t speak for Registax I’ve never used it.

@PatrickGuerrisi 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson no worries. Is like 100 images about the best for best results?

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

100 will give you nice results just watch the alignment with them.

@PatrickGuerrisi 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson might try 100 next half and 3/4 moon

@tinca101 4 года назад

Hi Chris. Great tutorials! I've been following you on Insta and just clicked the link in your bio and discovered your guides. Can I ask....what was the purpose of the stacking? Thanks....Don (@eat_my_pixels)

@tinca101 4 года назад

Ignore my question....I just clicked on "show more" and saw the reason....Doh!

@ChrisBaitson 4 года назад

Glad you found the info! The stacking helps reduce noise for the most part. It also brings some ore of the details out on the moon but the main reason for it is noise reduction.

@dugy40 3 года назад

my open as layers in photoshop is grayed out

@flameout12345 3 года назад

I followed your steps but it wouldn’t let me stack

@ChrisBaitson 3 года назад

Can you remember the error it gave?

@flameout12345 3 года назад

@@ChrisBaitson it’s said something black can’t be more than 40 percent or something. I don’t know maybe my photo is a bit soft and photoshop can’t find and align the images.

@belissen 2 года назад

@@flameout12345 Have that too now. Did you manage to solve it?

@Bobby-fj8mk Год назад

I couldn't make head nor tail of your video. I'm using Photoshop CS5.1 so it's a bit different. I notice in your video there is no button which actually says - STACK. Auto-align layers is greyed out when I try to align so I can't do it. I am so disappointed - Photoshop is so nerdy - It looks like you have to play around for hours just to stack a few pictures. It's a load of rubbish. OK - by manually cropping and aligning 4 pictures I got Photoshop to stack but the result was more blurry than any single photo. I tried Registax but it came out with a silly answer of blocks of the picture spread all over the image. Doesn't matter.