How to colourise a mono solar image?

[aGreyarea]

Hi all, just taking my first steps with my PST and it's not amazing but I'm pretty pleased with my first attempt. PST, QHY5l-ii + Coronado 2x barlow. What I'd like to know, and I'm sure this is schoolboy, is how to make my mono image the orange red, and for my CaK the violet blue, that I see in everyone else's images?

I have played briefly with the saturation, hue and other controls in registax, but it didn't look like it was going in the right direction.

All help gratefully recieved.

[Merlin66]

Usually they use something like Photoshop (or PaintShopPro) to add the RGB colourising.

[Steve Ward]

Try here ... http://www.hapb.net/Solar/processing/photoshop.html

[romx]

i use a older no longer sold image software called paint shop pro (formerly Jasc then bought out by adobe and abandoned) i worked using its adjust option and came out with the following images from your original

[Merlin66]

PaintShopPro X is still alive and very well!!!

[Steve Ward]

http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/default.html

[Photosbykev]

Try this routine http://www.photosbykev.com/wordpress/photography/pst-solar-imaging/

[Steve Ward]

Having seen the price reduced at the moment I might just get this myself as Gimp 16 bit version still hasn't materialised ...   

[Merlin66]

I've been using PSP for almost ten years.....

IMHO it does 99% of the stuff PS does for a lot less $$$$

(I do acknowledge that some of the PS "addons" don't work with PSP - yet)

[Steve Ward]

What's the difference between the std X6 and the Ultimate version , apart from the £12.00 ... 

[Steve Ward]

Ignore the above , I've just found their comparison ... 

http://www.corel.com/static/product_content/psp/x6/pspx6_family_comparison_chart_en.pdf

[aGreyarea]

Thanks for all the help, I do love a tutorial too. I kind of thought there would be an exact value of colour to add to the image (or something), since we know the precise wavelength of the light collected. But, nice to know it should be straight forward to do.

I don't currently have either PS CS or PSP. I keep getting emails from Corel though and had seen the price, pretty tempting. I think I'll have to buy it now, can't afford PSCS and I tried Gimp too and found the 8bit limit an issue.

I assume it'll be easy to invert the image with PSPx6?

Thanks again!

[Steve Ward]

You can try a thirty day trial of PSPX6 and AfterShotPro ... just downloaded them myself .... 

[Fordos Moon]

Just thought I would say "nice images"!

[aGreyarea]

Well thanks very much! I have done a bit of planetary imaging before and had tried in vain to use a dslr on the PST previously, so for a first effort I'm really pleased.

[aGreyarea]

Thanks for all the help and tips. This is a first crack at colourising it myself.

[Hugechris]

Hi I have found an interesting transformation tool in a mathematics package called Mathematica (a phenomenal piece of software if you are so inclined) one can transform the colour balance of any image to a target format with one line. I have posted the technique in the imaging techniques sub forum if you are interested.

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[MoonNut]

Have you tried FastStone Image Viewer 5.1?  I use it for everything, the menus are hidden, you open the image and moving the mouse pointer to each side of the screen opens the different menus. It has just about everything you will need and it is free   

http://faststone.org/