How To Edit And Process The Milky Way In Photoshop

[@michaelmckeag960]

Thanks. That was helpful. I followed along editing an image of my own, taking notes along the way. The details of my image were quite different (all-sky fisheye shot under a Bortle 1 sky with cooled CMOS OSC camera), but your workflow (with minor variations) was applicable, and I learned some new PS gambits. Your tutorial style is clear, logical, thorough, and comfortably paced. Much appreciated.

[@SteveAndo-yl7ne]

Literally one of the best videos for basic Photoshop work for the Milky Way. Thank you for putting in the effort!!!

[@damianburton9829]

This is the best tutorial ive discovered on KZbin. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. Greetings from Liverpool UK

[@timseren]

Amazing content! Why it has so few views it's beyond me. One of the best tutorial there is.

[@mrmtruckermax2]

I agree

[@iwonajot]

Best Milky Way processing tutorial I've ever seen. Huge help! Thank you!!!

[@pksacoma]

I am just starting with developing my first milkyway photos. Your video is exceptionally good. Thank you for your explanation. The different steps are very well explained.

[@juliewray5408]

One of the best tutorials I've encountered. Very easy and detailed.

[@Adrian-gs3vy]

I am thanking you millions for this amazing walktrought video!! I am starting with astrophotography and this was a big help for me. Thanks again !!!

[@prashantmahabeer6324]

I've been watching a ton of tutorials on milkyway processing on photoshop, this was by far the most helpful for me! Great video!

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thanks! Hopefully the sky stay clear and there will be lots more this summer!

[@tmeeten3195]

Wow first time using Photoshop for me and you made it look so easy. I have a tone of notes so hopefully with practice my light polluted milky way cores will start to pop. Thanks so much for an easy to follow along tutorial. Very much appreciated

[@dumindu]

Best milky-way editing tutorial I have seen. Thanks so much

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thank you! I can't wait to make more!

[@shutterbug49]

I am learning a lot from you. I am new to Astrophotography and Photoshop. You give great tips for both. Thank you!

[@christinethompson2466]

Many thanks for a great video. I've watched many others on MW processing but your clear instructions enabled me to progress further than before.

[@deltaastrophotography]

Really glad I could help!! Clear skies!

[@stephenkyle9039]

Tried a few walk through videos but always come back to this one for my Milky Way editing. Absolutely brilliant.

[@Ahmadrahimify]

I am facing same problem

[@ujjwaldatta6713]

Extraordinary. Thanks Walt.

[@FPVsimon]

Great tutorial fair play, much better than a lot I’ve watched, you seem to be on our level Well done 👏

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thanks!

[@SYNiCST4]

I've been using Photoshop for years, but this showed me some methods I haven't used before. Another great, well explained tutorial. Thanks champ 👍

[@AJ82778]

Awesome! Probably one of the best Milky Way landscape tutorials I've seen. I personally keep forgetting about the Camera Raw Filter!

[@jesseroeleveld5430]

i like the way you explain, relaxed and calm. Love it!

[@Rick_B52]

You're a great instructor. I appreciate your content and will surely aid me along my journey into astrophotography.

[@christophersmart1088]

Great tutorial, layer masks have been eluding me recently, will certainly try to apply this process to my deep space images! Thanks for the "easy to follow" work flow 👍🏻

[@adriennedragophotography]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I've been looking for a MW tutorial and my friend sent me a link to this one. I love how you take your time between steps, so that I can follow along. Appreciate this so much!

[@mosesrodriguez1494]

WOW, I leaned quite a lot tonight. Thank you for the lessons.

[@deltaastrophotography]

No problem!

[@realbobbypetrov]

Thank you so much! probably the best milky way that I have edited thanks to you!

[@week_end.traveller]

The best one till now. Will definitely give it a try. ❤️

[@marcelvandenbos]

Great video on how to edit. very useful. Thanks for creating it!

[@mrmtruckermax2]

Very well done!!! I like your method. I do similar adjustments but I live in an area with more light pollution so my stacking method is a little different in the beginning. But when I get to shoot in dark skies, I make small adjustments before stacking. Then photoshop for final editing. Excellent work!!!

[@BLarsenPhoto]

Thanks so much for sharing this! I learned so much! I've been doing milky way astro for a while now and there's so much to learn with using Photoshop for editing.

[@elies7]

Great work flow . Thanks

[@dougbarnes8248]

Ctg tnn hbk 4 you'll I

[@wenjunzeng4541]

Thanks!

[@somsiadmp]

This is by far the best MW editing tutorial I've seen, and I have seen a lot of those! Step by step, no rushing, easy to follow. This made me finally sit and start working on my photos. The only problem I have is blending, my foregrounds are usually pitch black and in order to make the photo more interesting I will have to blend in a blue hour shot - any chance you could make a video on that? 🙂

[@herr_bouchnak]

Thanks alot for the guide this was exactly what i was looking for!

[@tushar2200]

Great vid man! Have really been struggling to process milky way photos in PS recently, especially dealing with light pollution in the horizon. Cant wait to try your workflow!

[@deltaastrophotography]

Light pollution in the horizon is so annoying! The best way to deal with it is to take the foreground and background separately. Some people consider that cheating. It never has bothered me too much. You have to take them separately when you use a star tracker!

[@tushar2200]

@@deltaastrophotography True! I have tried doing that and blending them back in PS..But still there's this annoying yellowish color wash over the horizon. Can't beat taking photos in truly dark skies I guess!

[@stevethompson8154]

Awesome. I am trying to learn to improve my astro/ milky way processing. This seems to very easy to follow and effective. i can actually see myself using the information presented here. Thank YOU

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thank YOU! Glad I could help! Best of luck and clear skies!

[@roadshoulderphotography683]

Love the video - explained the whole process with ease - Thanks

[@lucagiordani5391]

Thanks thanks thanks.... I used your tutorial and finally, my Milky Way is beautiful. Thanks ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@misterb6839]

Love it, been waiting anxiously for this!

[@MonaamBenFredj]

Neat and tidy, thank you for this video

[@TheCob86]

Pure gold of a tutorial , thank you for this !

[@shutterbug49]

Great tutorial! Thanks for the tips!

[@hikeandphoto2521]

Excellent tutorial , thank you!

[@ryanwishnuwardhana435]

Thanks for sharing this! Really helpful for new beginner like me.

[@lycakito1814]

Wow, this was really good, thanks

[@plasma2255]

Hey mate lately started watching your videos and building up interests on astrophotography Can you please try to shoot the 7p/pons wennicke comet ☄️ and is it possible with a lens currently i own sigma 150-600mm on a aps-c camera

[@grahamhunneman3503]

Great work man 👏 Will be referring back to this for sure

[@DroneAddiction81]

Hey have you considered working with luminosity masks or photoshop panels like the Pro Panel from John Weatherby...I have found it pretty essential to my workflow now since I've used it a couple of years

[@joyjoy534]

I typically import the file in LR first and use lens correction to fix the vignetting and distortion for wide angle lens before moving to PS.

[@mrmtruckermax2]

I do the same thing.

[@boycefitzgerald]

This was very helpful. Mine either look overdone to bland. This was just what I needed.

[@lukewarm2804]

Amazing dude. Thank you so much, this has helped me take my photos to the next level!

[@AstroCloudGenerator]

Great tutorial. Very helpful.

[@grahamhunneman3503]

Nice tutorial, glad I recently subscribed 👍🏻

[@kapilcaldera4763]

Wonderfully done

[@jimschmidt7303]

Looks like we are dealing with similar light pollution conditions at the horizon. Thanks for sharing.

[@eskrima1]

Excellent video. Going back to re-edit some of my pics.

[@SteveZodiac777]

Very useful - thanks for sharing!

[@dennismacwilliams196]

Great help easy to follow. Thank you

[@georgetrimmer3077]

I like your video. FYI… the stretching of the stars at the outside of your image is called coma. If you stop down about 2 stops or more, you can eliminate all or most of it.

[@johnwheeler5271]

Thankyou so much.Great Video.J

[@joseruizjoestargazer8682]

Thanks... This was a great tutorial. I'm looking for tips in how to process images taken using light pollution filters. I recently acquired an Optolong L-pro filter and I am looking into how to process the images. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

[@BurnleyFreefighters]

love it . learning so much thanks

[@basilbcf]

Wow, 60 light frames and 20 dark frames! I thought I was doing good shooting 25 light frames and 2 dark frames. At what point do you get diminished returns on results with how many frames you shoot?

[@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism]

10 light frames are more than enough. You have to pixel peep after that. After 15, I've saw no more increase in noise reduction.

[@kevinashley478]

Hey Walt, do you know what GPU Acceleration Required means? I cant use Camera Raw Filter and that box pops up about the GPU.

[@sirjackjackal1042]

I have a question I have a cheaper lens and a lot of the bigger stars are purple and blue because of chromatic aberration is there any way to reduce that or maybe even delete all the stars that are that color??

[@hermit6514]

Very nice video it helped me loads Thanks!

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thank you!!

[@Mr09260]

Brilliant Video >> At 70 I have just started Milky Way so I will follow this Video as if it is a ONE shot image >> stacking will come later..Little steps Lol at my age

[@kbruff2010]

Thank you for sharing this information.

[@bynumoil9615]

Great video. I have been using 12 stack in Sequator. How much more noise reduction benefit are you getting at 60? Do you use any of the AI options it offers?

[@javiervvgarcia9650]

Congratulations! I am not a native English speaker but easy to follow and very well structured (Already "Like" and subscribe), with a powerfull and natural result!!!. Despite the fact I am an Affinity Photo user I think I can follow all the steps. Just a couple of questions: - Do you not integrate WB adjustment in your process flow? - What do you think about some Nik preset to be applied? Many thanks!!!

[@milesmatic2872]

Great job, I got some valuable lessons!

[@DANDOTRAPBEATZTM]

Thank you so much sir. I'm learning lot of thing

[@fender44]

Great video, but sadly the TIFF file is not available ? Would be VERY useful to use the same file as shown in your video !

[@DalilaLecca]

Hi! Thanks for the video. Where did you shoot and in which time of the year?

[@HibaMediaGroup]

Thank you very much, you've been very helpful 🙏🤗

[@ailonglitz]

Great video!! thank you

[@BoskieChannel]

what are the settings on your dark frames?

[@mrmtruckermax2]

dark frames should be the same as the light frames, just shot with the lens cap on.

[@biglap.australia]

I had a few goes and despite having an identical camera (FTX adaptor and 20mm Nikon lens) and settings and the results weren’t great. Hard to believe the results you achieved before editing. Anyway I had better results with the Alyn Wallace work flow and brushes.

[@gloriajaynes6278]

Thank you so much for your detailed instruction. *****

[@jeffreysokal7264]

Any chance you could use Siril to stack and GNU Gimp to process?

[@deltaastrophotography]

I'll be happy to give them a shot! I've been curious about both for a while.

[@thegodfather4713]

Hey man hello. Thanks for the video. How do we uncover the Rho Ophiuchi section in the Milky Way photo by processing and painting? Can you tell me about it?

[@deltaastrophotography]

That might be a bit of a long reply for here. You could always shoot me a message on my Facebook page!

[@bmalacrida]

Hi how are you? I have a nikon d3500 (a camera for beginners) and my question is: how much do I get for a full frame? (a nikon d780, for example) PS. I use a wide angle lens, AF-S Nikkor 20mm 1.8

[@JohnDoranski]

Finally, someone using the most recent version of PS. Now i have only been using PS for a month and have been using LR - hit and miss with my set of Astro. Stacking 60 shots - tell me how. I will play with mine tomorrow. Left the lens open too long at ISO 6400. Way too many stars. Heading out in two days 8/5/24 to shot with my new Canon 24mm, f1.8. I will be back to follow along with those shots. Thanks for the lesson.

[@deltaastrophotography]

Check out my most recent Milky Way video as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4Hdm4CiiamBidU and good luck shooting with the new lens!

[@Pedrohramirez]

Good stuff, thank you.

[@francescad4054]

Thank you so much for this video. I spent Sunday night shooting and still have to stack my photos but I'll do all the editing following your tutorial. You are very clear, a very logical and natural step by step edit. Congratulations on the final result and on your dedication. One question, I usually start my edits (LR) with the colour temperature. Not that I would change anything in your photo, but I was wondering, did you fix it before the stacking process? Do you do any edit to your raws prior to stacking? Thanks again.

[@deltaastrophotography]

I occasionally do work on my temperature balance of the raws before I stack! It just depends on if I think it needs it or not. I think I did that in my Orion processing video!

[@francescad4054]

@@deltaastrophotography Thank you very much. I'll check out your video, I haven't got Orion.

[@Terry-ze1ss]

tried downloading the file to work along and its not there ?

[@instinct_gallant8694]

Bro it’s very intimidating! I’ve been slacking on it for a month now. The symbols are very confusing. You have to train your mind to

[@dmkellett]

amazing stuff thanks

[@russmorlando2227]

Quick question, and I apologize in advance if it has already been answered. In the first video you did some light editing. Does this video start with that edited image or the image straight out of Sequator?

[@deltaastrophotography]

Straight out of Sequator!

[@vhobus]

Fantastic! Thanks

[@abyssent]

i love how ur channel is called delta astrophotography and edit from a music studio .

[@prabudennaga5595]

Hi sir, there is something I want to ask in star reduction, I can't do the command H. I'm using a Macbook. what should I do

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I believe that's the hide command to hide the marching ants around the stars during star reduction. That's an optional step. Try just skipping it and moving on to the filter/other/minimum part. After you have performed the action press command D to deselect. Or go to the Select menu at the top and choose deselect. Hope this helps!

[@prabudennaga5595]

@@deltaastrophotography thanks for the information. very helpful. Kind regards . Greetings . stay safe and healthy .

[@Chrisp_images]

Hopefully someone can help me. Im very new to photoshop! when i create the layer and add an adjustment to it it dose not link into the layer as shown here. I have to manually merge the layer down. Also after creating multiple layers it seems like it only applies the newest layer to the image its not showing all my adjustments. Hopefully this makes sense

[@H1HP100]

FYI you can merge layers unlimitedly without losing data. Unlike what you saw from the uploader of this clip, you can simply repeat the process of having 1 or 2 layers with the background layer by merging them (right click after selecting the layers, merge layers). So instead of having a pile of layers, you can just quickly get the process done. Also when you save it make sure to merge visible layers and make it 1 background layer, bc of the file size (samething with saving to lightroom through ps). I hope you understood.

[@H1HP100]

Also if you want to make adjustment tabs such as vibrance, press alt+left click inbetween the tab adjustment and the layer. You see an arrow thingy which is called clipping the tabs to the layer. It will only affect the layer you clip it to.

[@dreamersky9381]

Which 24mm lens are you using?

[@deltaastrophotography]

A Tamron 24-70 f/2.8

[@jeroenmiddag1132]

Hi i am just starting astrofotography. I was wandering what deep sky objects are good to begin with? My situation: i have a DSLR (Pentax krop) , a 120-400mm lens and a skywatcher star adventurerer pro. I am still waiting for clear skies (Netherlands) because is raining a lot here. I was thinking about Andromeda but that one is verry low in the sky and its extremely light poluted over here. Can you give some starter tips foir deep sky?

[@bralampt]

You can try M81 and M82, they are pretty high in the sky www.galactic-hunter.com/post/summer-the-15-best-astrophotography-targets

[@deltaastrophotography]

Hi! It's been cloudy here a lot lately as well! You have a similar setup to mine! Andromeda is best in the Fall months! The Orion Nebula is the best beginner object, but you'll have to wait for winter. This summer you could try the Milky Way Core, The Lagoon Nebula, The Eagle Nebula, Rho Ophiuchi, The Veil Nebula, The North America Nebula, and The Pelican Nebula! The first few might be the easiest. I would definitely invest in some light pollution filters and an autoguiding setup before winter gets here! You are going to have a great time in the winter with all the amazing beginner targets! Good luck and clear skies. Feel free to reach out and ask questions any time!

[@akkarparkiamopas3401]

I just become your subscriber. thanks for tutorial. Hope to see you make a tutorial of how to do track multi row pano on the field. Cheers

[@minulanikeshalaphotography4977]

Thank You So Much Brother🌌❤️

[@flameout12345]

20 dark frames? do you need that much DFs?

[@joshuabateman7540]

This crazy thank you so much

[@HorrorAndCoffee]

I’m trying to find the Whirlpool galaxy . That thing is hard to find.

[@deltaastrophotography]

I just ordered a green laser pointer to help with things like that! I'm also like $200 away from being able to afford a Skywatcher EQ6 R Pro mount. Things are going to happen this year!!

[@HorrorAndCoffee]

@@deltaastrophotography Ah yes the green laser pointer.....like the Death Star lol.....gotta get that.

[@deltaastrophotography]

@@HorrorAndCoffee Exactly! We just need to make sure that the other end of that laser isn't destroying somebody's planet! 😂

[@HorrorAndCoffee]

@@deltaastrophotography Yeah the weatherman on Alderran will be pissed. lol

[@salex2458]

your the best!!! thx!!!

[@Mparker394]

Hey man, what part of Mississippi are you in?

[@deltaastrophotography]

I'm from the Clarksdale area!

[@Mparker394]

@@deltaastrophotography okay. Pretty far up in the delta area. I’m from Bogalusa, Louisiana, which is in the very tip of the toe of the boot.

[@deltaastrophotography]

@@Mparker394 Right on! One of the bands I'm in will be playing in Biloxi in a few weeks

[@Mparker394]

@@deltaastrophotography what band?