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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 745203" data-attributes="member: 48483"><p>Andromeda Galaxy, I shot this in July. The normal procedure for an astrophotography subject like this is to use software to automatically align and stack a few dozen images which are then flattened into a TIFF. I use RawTherapee and GIMP for the post-processing mostly, but I do have Luminar4 available and I am trying to use it more.</p><p></p><p>In July I followed my more normal workflow and adjusting to produce this photo.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]346897[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I came back to this photo, going so far as to do the original stacking step over again. But I decided to instead process the subject and the background separately. I did this by duplicating the image into a second layer and masking the galaxy on the top layer. Now I look at it and wonder if I went overboard, or maybe did not smooth the edges of the mask good enough for a natural looking blend?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]346898[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 745203, member: 48483"] Andromeda Galaxy, I shot this in July. The normal procedure for an astrophotography subject like this is to use software to automatically align and stack a few dozen images which are then flattened into a TIFF. I use RawTherapee and GIMP for the post-processing mostly, but I do have Luminar4 available and I am trying to use it more. In July I followed my more normal workflow and adjusting to produce this photo. [ATTACH=CONFIG]346897._xfImport[/ATTACH] I came back to this photo, going so far as to do the original stacking step over again. But I decided to instead process the subject and the background separately. I did this by duplicating the image into a second layer and masking the galaxy on the top layer. Now I look at it and wonder if I went overboard, or maybe did not smooth the edges of the mask good enough for a natural looking blend? [ATTACH=CONFIG]346898._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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