EZ HDR comes to Pixinsight! (HDR Multiscale Transform)

[@VisibledarkAstro]

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[@ch3rry1986]

Show some HOO processing ;)

[@billtinsley5385]

Wow!! 5K, there are a lots of us watching your tutorials. Nice job!!

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@christianvulpescu1398]

Very interesting video. Thank you for that. What I do sometimes is to mask out the bright parts during severel stretching steps, so when the picture is fully strechtched, the bright parts don't need HDR processing any more. I feel, I have a better control sometimes with that method. Clear Skies, Christian

[@paulwilson8367]

I already commented, but I just used this tutorial to bring out the core of M3. It worked great! All my previous globs had blown out cores because I didn't have skills to do anything about it. Thanks so much for this easy to follow tutorial. Now, this is how I will do it.

[@Astrolips2000]

These videos are great and very helpful! Thank you

[@elmikol2443]

Congratulations on your 5k Shawn! You make awesome videos!

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Thanks Mike! :)

[@paulwilson8367]

Good video. I am only just realizing there is an "EZ Processing Suite" . I agree with your comments about EZ HDR however, and I will use your "mask the core and use HDRMT" alternative for now. However, Deconvolution? I am more inclined to give that a try. I can't think of a process that requires more and delivers less than deconvolution. I would be happy for now to go EZ and see if, using it, I can actually see those stars shrink. When I try to use regular deconvolution, when I finally see star shrinkage, I get bad "ringing" artifacts. I go back and forth with that principal "global" adjustment, only to eventually give up. No doubt, a purist like Mr. Block would be horrified.

[@Steve_The_Ignorant_Astronomer]

That is one beautiful image of M31... Like your vids helpful... You sure do take a lot of time on each subject. I use a osc camera so I would do say 3 hours on M31. I dont know if I am selling it short or not . One day I may get into a mono camera but it is hard enough trying to get clear sky for just 3 hours..... Anyway like your stuff , keep the videos coming

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Thanks for tuning in! The OSC cameras these days are very capable. If you can go longer and get more data it's always better. I use both OSC and mono cams. I like both. Good luck with your skies! Cheers.

[@qx3V45p]

You should do comparisons more like this. Your method (Manual) vs EZ Processing suite :)

[@rtpman1953]

Great video Shawn. I agree that I want more control on how the mask is created. Perhaps he can separate it two steps. One to review/modify mask and the second to apply it with the settings. Although, I guess that defeats the 'EZ' concept lol. Very nice image btw.

[@VisibledarkAstro]

I agree 100%. Will be interesting to see where development of it goes. Handy none-the-less.

[@southernexposure123]

I've recently started learning post processing astrophotography and I'd like to understand how to accomplish the goals, but there's so few people teaching. As far as the HDR Multiscale Transform goes I agree that the way it is set up at the moment it seems sort of like a cookie cutter process. It might be an impprovement if instead of giving users the choice between whole numbers (1, 2, 3 etc) for adjusting the core etc it might be an improvement if they'd make the settings with increments of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 (1.25, 1.5, 1.75 etc on up the variables they allow) for each of the whole number intergers of adjustment offered at the moment. I suspect the differences seen in the core is controlled by a formula that works similar to an app like Calculator (open office) and Excel. If that's the case it might be accomplished with an easy mod to the adjustment variables inside their application. Thanks for the video. I've seen other astrophotographers in videos show themselves using Pixinsight and didn't understand what they were doing. Thanks to your video now I do understand.

[@Greg-lk6te]

Gread video. For me, the hdr preview always looks different than when I apply it to the whole image. To fix this I found that if you apply hdr before denoising, it looks just like the previews.

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Thanks for watching and for the tip! Cheers.

[@komr323]

Well HDR is definitely an art then a task. As you said, there is some HDR you like better and something other people would like better. The nice one to me are usually more transparent like a colored crystal than solid looking ones

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Agreed! :)

[@Dennis-tf2cs]

So where do I get the download for EZ HDR

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Best thing to do is watch this video which will explain how to setup EZ Processing Suite in Pixinsight kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHPXY32mmdR4l8k ...in its description is the URL you will need to add to Pixinsight. Cheers.

[@Dennis-tf2cs]

@@VisibledarkAstro I have the EZ Processing Suite installed and I copied the URL you supplied into PixInsight but when I check for updates It's not picking up the EZ HDR module for some reason. I have the full licensed version of Pix (latest version) any ideas on how to get it to pick up the EZ HRD module?

[@VisibledarkAstro]

@@Dennis-tf2cs Not sure off hand what the problem is. I didn't experience any issues. After putting the url into PI repositories, and clicking ok, did you close PI and start it again so it updates?

[@tchallalemou5307]

Game on core, then EZ Hdr work? Thanks for doing these reviews

[@VisibledarkAstro]

You're welcome! Thank you for watching! I'd say EZ HDR has a use for overall image dynamic range. If you want to be more specific/selective and fix a washed out core of a deepsky object, than you'll need to use HDRMT on its own and with a mask.

[@brod5352]

I have the latest version of Pixinsight but no EZ HDR Processing Suite. How come?