Mars-06-28-16 (chuckp)

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Mars-06-28-16

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

I am posting this comparison shot to show some of the people who said my shot was not worthy of top pic because of the software I used, they said it added false detail in the shot. As you can see it just removed noise and sharpened the image much better and I didn't use the shapening software. The pic on the left is mars as it came out of registax and combining the channels in photoshop. There was sharpening in both Reg. and PS and color balance. I resized it to match the resized image on the right that was done in Topaz denoise and gigapixel. I don't understand with the breakthoughs in todays technology why people would be so upset because of someone trying to make a shot look better with a better noise reduction software. You need good data to begin with because this software will not make a bad shot look good believe me I tried it on some of my images that I took with bad seeing. I see many people using Topaz. I'm not a sales person for Topaz because in the first post I did not mention the software at all. It was brought up by the people who said my shot was fake and not worthy. I would like to know what other people think about this. if this should be in the forum part let me know and I will remove this post but since some people brought this up in my photo comment I thought I should post here.

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