So I came across a few videos on YouTube from Adam Block. Looking further I found his Adam Block Studios website and subscribed to his
First off he really does a great job of breaking down a lot of the tools in a way to help you understand what it’s actually doing. This way you will have better understanding of how to apply the tools to your images. I found this really helpful to grow my skills.
He has videos dedicated to the various tools, not all but certainly most of the important ones. He also has a few beginning to end workflow examples.
I learned many new things - both how a tool I’ve used for years is actually working to additional parameters on tools I had no idea existed or nerve to change.
As an example one of the biggest eye openers for me was his quite thorough examination of DynamicBackgroundExtraction including the use of the Symmetries parameters. I have been neglecting taking flats for a while on my narrowband images. Now I will probably never again unless I experience some really significant dust donuts.
Anyway if you are inclined to pay the cost I would recommend it.
Here’s an example of using some of the things I leaned. This image is by no means award winning nor is the amount of data captured that significant. However my initial attempt at the time I felt ok. Now that I’ve reprocessed the same data I can see how bad it was.
Initial: Reprocess: