Colour in DSLR pics

[drumsolo]

Silly question by my images don't appear to have any colour in them after stacking in DSS and using PS to process. I have a canon 1100d umodded and Skywatcher 200pds and recently took 20 x 1 min of M42. The raw pics seemed to have a small amount of colour but after processing nothing!

Is this normal, what should I expect after stacking and stretching in terms of colour on this object with my setup?

[FrankieValley]

Not sure how you would do it with DSS, but I use Nebulosity to 'demosaic' RAW images. Another term for this is 'debayer'. RAW images will look b&w until this is done.

[Dave Smith]

Have you set <Align RGB Channels In Final Image> ?

Dave

[Psychobilly]

Try boosting the saturation either in DSS or in PS early in the processing...

If you do it in DSS I would use a value something around 12-18 on the slider ...

I don't know if this post will help...

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-image-processing-help-techniques/157778-deep-sky-stacker-treats-colour-pics-mono.html#post1968766

Peter...

[drumsolo]

Excuse my ignorance I am still learning!! Is the Align RGB Channels In Final Image option not defaulted or do I have to set this manually?

Thanks

[Dave Smith]

To be honest, I don't know as once set it will stay on that setting. If you load some images into DSS, you can then check the settings. I have seen on another forum this being a reason for losing colour. I've never actually had it happen.

Dave

[RikM]

I generally save the TIFF with attached but not applied, then increase the saturation in Photoshop. For a quick look to see what I have, I tweak the saturation slider in DSS as Peter says above but I don't normally save it applied.

[Psychobilly]

If you do save it as applied then you have to make sure you don't over do it in DSS...

To be honest I have never tried the other option I will have to give it a go...

Peter...

[RikM]

If you save without applying the settings, when you first open the tiff in PS you will be faced with a black rectangle. Don't worry, the data is there, you just need to stretch it out.