Andromeda Galaxy Image Processing Flow

[@mattrigoll6943]

By far the best tutorial to watch. Every other person speeds through and you are constantly pausing. 👍👍👍

[@peculiargalexy]

That makes me happy to hear!

[@ILoveIce-Cream_]

Excellent tutorial! I had on my hard drive a couple of photos that I took a few years ago, and I had not been able to process them due to my lack of knowledge using Photoshop. But now, with this video, I was able to get a decent result, for someone who doesn't know s**t about this. Thank you so much!

[@peculiargalexy]

That makes me so happy to hear! If you ever have any questions, let me know!

[@SaltyDawg154]

OMG I can't wait to try this approach. I have been trying to process this galaxy for a couple of weeks. Your approach and explanation is by far the best approach I have seen. Thank you.

[@peculiargalexy]

That makes me happy to hear! If you ever have any questions, let me know!

[@alawii5284]

Keep going, this is so gorgeous

[@peculiargalexy]

Thank you!

[@dropstopandroll]

Very Useful thanks so much, i have watched so many tutorials and this one helped me the best

[@Johnnyboing]

oh my god, you have just saved my day. every time I convert to 16 bit, when HDR comes up I had no idea what to do! Now I know Thank you sooooooo much x

[@peculiargalexy]

That makes me happy to hear! Glad I can help!

[@michaelparsons8815]

I'm just getting into astrophotography and look forward to putting your excellent tutorial to work. Very straight forward and easy to follow and understand! Thank You!

[@peculiargalexy]

That makes me happy to hear! If you ever have any questions let me know!

[@wonderkris]

Thanks for sharing your step-by-step step process. Will try it out today :)

[@peculiargalexy]

No problem! If you have any questions, let me know!

[@SteveZodiac777]

Thank you so much for posting this video tutorial. I captured 2hrs worth of Andromeda data the other night and your workflow has helped me make the very best of the image. Brilliant!

[@peculiargalexy]

That’s awesome to hear!! Glad I can help!

[@doncahill9452]

Tks

[@pattimaclaughlin8059]

With your video, I am able to understand the WHY'S along with what I can do to a picture of the galaxy. Thank you so much for this video and I hope you will do more.

[@peculiargalexy]

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me! I am glad I am able to not just explain the steps but the why and how of things as well.

[@prateepcharoensap1485]

Thanks for your Preoject.

[@peculiargalexy]

Thank you!

[@3SistersAstroOldAcct-fh3hd]

Your videos are extremely helpful. Thanks again!

[@peculiargalexy]

Thank you so much!

[@sahillangha7233]

It's a great video....idk why you have so less subscribers .You deserve many more 🤝🤝

[@peculiargalexy]

Thank you!

[@edforrest8697]

Excellent!!!! Thank you so much. Ed. Hyde park, ny

[@peculiargalexy]

Glad I could help! If you ever have any questions, let me know!

[@samiblidi9510]

Honestly I didn't use PS which I founded complicated and artificial and kept all my stacked photos neutral.. Thank you indeed for this clear and useful tuto.

[@peculiargalexy]

Glad I can help!

[@samiblidi9510]

Sorry I followed your tuto till step 2:30 min but PS tell me "impossible to execute level command because active layer (layer1) is empty " how can i continue ? I repeated many times from the beginning but can't advance Thanks

[@peculiargalexy]

@@samiblidi9510 Hmm, I am not sure how that would happen. When you create your duplicate layer, how are you doing it?

[@jamesrarity2648]

Great video, I struggle with astro photoshop as I've never used photoshop before, gona try tonight :)

[@peculiargalexy]

I hope my tutorial helps!

[@patbrubeck3313]

Thank you SO much .. this is very helpful!

[@peculiargalexy]

Glad I can help!

[@AstroEverett]

Wow....great tutorial!

[@peculiargalexy]

Thank you :)

[@astrojourneyuk]

Great video, thank you for sharing. I’m going to give this a go with the data I have from a few months back. Although I feel like I need to get more data of this part of the night sky.

[@peculiargalexy]

Awesome! Can't wait to see the result!

[@sk8rat]

how did you keep adding color balance layers?

[@peculiargalexy]

I usually just create a new layer each time I want to change something, even if it is the same thing! I create them using a keyboard shortcut for my windows computer.

[@astrocarone9671]

Great video. Very helpful. Great image! I subbed!

[@peculiargalexy]

Glad I could help!

[@sigurdglaerum4332]

"Let's choose the black referenece point" and do the adjustments. How do you choose that point?

[@peculiargalexy]

This video here might help! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYGxeaFqp5maiJo&t Let me know if it doesn't and I can explain in further detail.

[@allen53943]

I have Ps, and Lr. I can load my stacked photo, but I don't see the gadgets, gizmos and sliders like on you tutorials so can't fallow your workflow. I’m stuck - are there tabs or plug-ins or something I’m missing to get started?

[@peculiargalexy]

Hello! What version of Photoshop are you using?

[@curlingdan]

No nonsense video, thanks ! Just wondering what you are using for stacking ?

[@peculiargalexy]

I use Deep Sky Stacker!

[@curlingdan]

@@peculiargalexy, had to go back and watch again to remember why I was asking....have you tried stacking and then processing a good deal of the image in linear mode by using SiriL ? It will give you an Auto-stretched visual, but you can do background extraction, photometric color, remove green noise and some others in linear mode, then you can stretch and put it in PS. Just wondering, I plan to keep watching I like the no nonsense directness of your video.

[@peculiargalexy]

@@curlingdan I have only ever used DSS when stacking. This image was not mine, but a friend’s that I used for the tutorial! I have not tried using any other programs yet simply because I don’t know how and learning to use them isn’t the easiest. But that is definitely something I’d like to look into and check out! Eventually I hope to be able to provide tutorials for any type of program and how to use it best!

[@doncahill9452]

Can all galaxy use this work flow?

[@peculiargalexy]

Yes, they definitely can! They might not need the colorization, but the steps outlined here are what I use for all of my images regardless of professional or amateur data.

[@aerialdronemaster7483]

I cant do it from the very beginning, when you create the new layer, I cant do it, are you maybe duplicating it? then the threshold for me is grout

[@peculiargalexy]

So funny story. When I was taught I always thought the person was saying N+E. Turns out they were saying AND E. So the actual shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E (for Windows). This creates a new flattened layer while leaving all of the other layers intact. I am not sure the nuances of what that means and does for the image. But essentially it’s a flattened duplicate layer! Hope that helps!

[@indysbike3014]

You don't protect the stars with a mask? Very good results you got.

[@peculiargalexy]

I am not sure what that even means! So I guess I do not lol