Test your processing skills! Part I - M16

[toxic]

ok i had a go as well lol all i did was to run it through dss yes deep sky stacker  then in photoshop removed the stars the used that to make a high pass filter then applied that to the image with the stars and thats it.

m16 image and highpass image.

 

Rob's image-new.tif

Image5.tif

[Uranium235]

Very nice Chris, personally I would shave 2 or 3 off the black point - but always better to have a little breathing space on the left side of the histogram as it leaves room for adjustment

[harry page]

Hi

 

Had a quick go in Pixinsight , So many ways to do a image

 

Regards

Harry

[Scott]

Heres my really quick attempt. No real work flow, just fiddled with C&L and used stratton to remove stars whilst stretching 

SGL_M16_Pro by Scott Prideaux, on Flickr

 

[toxic]

had another go Rob rotated and cropped it there is a lot of data in there same as before but 2 time enlarged it before i ran it through dss then did that at 2 times then processed it in photoshop and multi layered it. 

[MattJenko]

Go on then

My go. 

 

[Herzy]

Here is my attempt:

I stretched it in nebulosity with curves and levels. I then brought it into startools where I ran it through almost every tool. I finished with a noise reduction and here is the result. If anyone has any critiques for my processing tell me!

[wimvb]

Here's my effort; processed in PixInsight.

Process details:

DBE

TGVDenoise with a lumincance mask

MorphologicalTransformation to reduce the stars

Masked stretch

Histogram transformation (HT)

Pixelmath multiplying the image with the luminance mask that was used for denoise. (This is basically an exponential transformation.)

Stretching adjustments using HT and CurvesTransformation

[Uranium235]

14 hours ago, Herzy said:

Here is my attempt:

I stretched it in nebulosity with curves and levels. I then brought it into startools where I ran it through almost every tool. I finished with a noise reduction and here is the result. If anyone has any critiques for my processing tell me!

 

All it probably needs is a whiff of highpass on the pillars and around the core. That can be done selectively (by painting it in a layer mask) so youre not applying it where you dont need it.