TheSkySearchers

Jockinireland wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 7:38 pm There is a neat trick in PI to get rid of your magenta stars

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:07 pm

Jockinireland wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 7:38 pm There is a neat trick in PI to get rid of your magenta stars

Excellent!

kc75star wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:22 pm Hi
Here's my version

kc75star wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:22 pm Hi
Here's my version

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vmyu4ktatryoi ... e.jpg?dl=0

Processed with Pixinsight
- Star alignment
- Dynamic Crop
- Denoise
- LRGB combine
- SCNR remove Green
- Remove Magenta
- Selective color saturation

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:46 pm This one just keeps on giving!

STEVE333 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:08 pm Whenever I use the SHO pallet I always use the SCNR process to remove the green. Just my approach.
You might enjoy the result with your image. Just FYI.

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:50 pm

STEVE333 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:08 pm Whenever I use the SHO pallet I always use the SCNR process to remove the green. Just my approach.
You might enjoy the result with your image. Just FYI.

Cheers Steve, I did use SCNR on Green but only at 0.25 because with the setting at 1.0 the result was a bit washed out. Perhaps you up the saturation later but at the time it looked ok!

Regards

Graeme

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:01 am I tried another go at SCNR at 1.0 on the my final image but is turned everything brown! Perhaps I'll try it from scratch again with a good dose of SCNR and see where it goes!

Regards

Graeme

STEVE333 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:03 pm

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:01 am I tried another go at SCNR at 1.0 on the my final image but is turned everything brown! Perhaps I'll try it from scratch again with a good dose of SCNR and see where it goes!

Regards

Graeme

Hi Graeme - The SCNR will definitely add more golds and browns to the image. I tried it again with your image as follows:


In the end it is really what looks best to you. If you like the original better, then, that is the right one for you. Everybody's personal taste is different and none are right or wrong (just my opinion).

Enjoy and have fun.

Steve

Jockinireland wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:00 pm

STEVE333 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:03 pm

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:01 am I tried another go at SCNR at 1.0 on the my final image but is turned everything brown! Perhaps I'll try it from scratch again with a good dose of SCNR and see where it goes!

Regards

Graeme

Hi Graeme - The SCNR will definitely add more golds and browns to the image. I tried it again with your image as follows:


In the end it is really what looks best to you. If you like the original better, then, that is the right one for you. Everybody's personal taste is different and none are right or wrong (just my opinion).

Enjoy and have fun.

Steve

@STEVE333 @Graeme1858

It is a really interesting to me that little or no green in SHO images has become the most popular way to do it. As I alluded to in my original post I tried to keep some green in mine because whenever I think of the "Hubble Palette" my mind immediately goes to the day I picked up the National Geographic and saw the original "Pillars of Creation" image - which had significant green in it. I was absolutely awed by that image and remain so to this day. The size (I remember the caption saying that each "finger" was wider across its short side than our entire solar system), the colours and what they meant, just the shear beauty of the image. So for me a SHO "Hubble Palette" should have some green in it. And honestly, probably because of my reaction to that original image I personally prefer some green in those images. But as Steve says, with NB colours there really is no right or wrong and we should do what we think looks the best (What pleases us most I guess)

But I decided to have a look at my image with the green removed using SCNR and this is what came out;


and to save you trawling back up, this is my original



Now, thanks to the fantastic data from @yobbo89 these images are probably my best result from processing since I started AP - but which is the best of the two? I don't think its possible to say either is better than the other. But I can say that I still prefer the original with its green.

But the blue is pretty cool too.

Interested to hear your thoughts.

Sky wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:28 pm I've compared the StarXterminator with Starnet++ along with a free a star remover Photoshop action I also use. StarXterminator comes out on top since I'm not seeing the artifacts (especially on bright stars) that will pop-up occasionally with the other two. Fortunately, those artifacts can usually be dealt with in Photoshop.

However, with a purchase price of $60USD for StarXterminator puts it beyond what I'm willing to pay for a plug-in, since there are free alternatives available.

Jockinireland wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:36 am I'm bumping this older challenge because I wanted to show how the new StarXterminator plugin for Photoshop has performed (I have a post about it in image processing forum if you are interested).

Now I'm not usually much of a fan of starless images but this is an exceptional image that @yobbo89 has given us and I have to say that in this one starless, for me anyway, looks amazing. I've run it on both the green and blue versions which are 2 posts above.

If you right click on the image and "open link in a new tab" on each of the starred and starrless versions you can blink between them to see how good a job StarXterminator has done.




I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Take care everyone

David.