Rosette Reprocess

[blinky]

I redid my Rosette image from last week as I was never happy with the colour, I think this is a bit more natural if you know what I mean.

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[MartinB]

That's a great Rosette and the colour looks spot on

[blinky]

I am not sure whether to try and reduce the stars more though Martin or leave well alone!

[gary1968]

Nice Craig, there's loads going on in there. There are loads of stars as you said, if it were mine I'd be trying to reduce the stars 'impact' if you know what I mean, for me they detract from the beuty of the neb.

But, thats just my opinion. It is a cracking image and one I'd be proud of.

Gaz

[blinky]

What about this? Right back to basics, just levels and curves and soft ones at that!

[gary1968]

Ah, now for me thats better. More natural looking and the stars aint stealing the show!! Now, just humor me here, try adding diff. spikes to the bigger stars. Might not work, but I like diff. spikes and always try adding them. They dont always work but is good to try.........................

Gaz

[blinky]

Just for you!

[MikeD]

Second one for me. Sooo much more natural looking in colour and detail.

Great result.

Mike.

[Beardy Bob]

Yeah, second one here too. I though the first one was great until I saw the second one and it looks much less angry!

[James]

Second one for me too - much softer colour - lovely image.

James

[MartinB]

Just goes to show, often less is more. Great reprocess.

[gary1968]

Nice Craig, I think I like the 2nd the best still. The spikes are nice but it could be that there are too many stars for it to 'work' right. Thanks for humoring me though..... :-)

Gaz

[blinky]

Gaz - I know what you mean, I wish there was a way to select an area of the image to have spikes applied to. Guess thats what the expensive version is for.

[MartinB]

Gaz - I know what you mean, I wish there was a way to select an area of the image to have spikes applied to. Guess thats what the expensive version is for.

But there is a way!! You can use a PS selection tool to pick out a specific star then run the star spikes action. Then use the "as selection" (or some such - not got access to PS at the mo) and it will just include the spikes in the selection. Alternatively, run the spkes tool normally. then run " as a layer on top". This creates the spiked image as a layer on top of an unspiked background. Now you can fiddle with the opacity to adjust the spikes to taste or under layers you can select layer mask, hide all. Then using a white paint brush paint over the spkes you want to reveal.

[blinky]

Thanks for the info Martin, will try that shortly!

[Tim]

The other way is to open a duplicate layer, run the stars action on that, put it under the top layer, and then just rub out the stars where you want the star spikes to show through.

Lovely image Craig, the reprocess is sweet.

TJ

[blinky]

Here we go, this is the first spiked image that I like the spikes in!

Thanks for the tips guys!!!

[gary1968]

Nice Craig, I like that...............

Gary

[Beyond_Vision]

Very nicely done Craig I like the version on the 7th post

Regards

Kevin

[JCJC]

Great to see the progression from start to, in my opinion the best, last image.

Very nice image.

Jordan