Some galaxies have bright cores and we often publish images with the bright core intact, however, you can apply an adjustment that reduces the tone of the core making it less bright and bring...
Quickly Boosting Details of Nebula, Dust, and Contrast
I’m all about speed and quality when it comes to image processing. While I like to publish nice images, I don’t like spending hours on them to get them just right: I like to...
Quickly Boosting Details and Contrast
I’m all about speed and quality when it comes to image processing. While I like to publish nice images, I don’t like spending hours on them to get them just right: I like to...
Adding A Star Diffraction Effect To Your Images – Alternate Method
In another article, I showed you how to add a star diffraction effect to your images using some Photopea actions. The problem with that approach is that it works only for certain sized stars...
Adding False Color to a Monochrome Image
When publishing images online for general consumption, images that have color tend to get better feedback than images that do not have color. The fact is, however, that you’ll one day end up with...
Adding A Star Diffraction Effect To Your Images
A star diffraction effect is a spiking effect from bright sources of light, such as stars. The diffraction effect is usually considered to be pleasant because it enhances the appearance of stars in an...
Using Various Processing Approaches On The Same Image
I have written extensively about using image processing applications like JS9, Fits Liberator, SAOImage DS9, and MaxIM DL. The questions I’m often asked are, which processing application is best? Does JS9 do better with...
Processing An Image Using MaxIM DL and Photoshop
Although I often write about using free tools like JS9, SAO Image DS9, DeepSkyStacker, Photopea, and GIMP, I use another set of tools for my image processing. When I started out in image processing,...
Creating an RGB Image Using DeepSkyStacker and GIMP
Update: If you are looking for information about combining three monochrome images into one using GIMP, visit this article: Using GIMP To Combine Three Mono Images Into One RGB A number of my recent...
Starless Orion Nebula (M42)
This is a starless version of the Orion Nebula, or Messier 42. I created this image based on a large number of observations in 2016 to get a long exposure time. I then used...