Getting colors right AND beautiful! [Solar System] Processing techniques · Jerry Gerber · ... · 29 · 1042 · 8

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Tim Hawkes:
Hi Jerry,  this may have been said above. Apologies if it has.  

In PI you can use Curves to up the colour saturation .  It is very easy to use.  Open your stretched image and open curves.  Click on the preview (open round) icon in Curves and you should see a copy of ypur image.  Then select saturation which should give you a straight purple line from bottom left to top right.  Click on the middle of it and drag to the left drasgging the line into a curve - as you do do so you will see the colour saturation increase in the preview.  Take it to a level you like -- not too far - and then operate on your image and it should up the colour.

But before that step it is very important to have the colour  balance right  by using COL or PHOTOMETIC COL calibration earlier in the work flow - your image above looks too blue I think

Tim

Yep, I agree.  I learned how to use GAIA and color calibration today and I think this is a little better (I think, but I don't really know!)M31 Integration.jpg
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rbarbout 0.00
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Much better indeed !
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Jerry Gerber:
Yep, I agree.  I learned how to use GAIA and color calibration today and I think this is a little better (I think, but I don't really know!)


Definitely much better processing on this version. Now get out there and gather a bunch more data .
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DalePenkala 15.85
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Nice job Jerry! Glad my work flow helped you out!

Dale
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Dale Penkala:
Nice job Jerry! Glad my work flow helped you out!

Dale

And a big thanks to Dale for post processing my integrated sub and explaining his work flow to me. It really helped a lot!
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