How to Edit Milky Way Photos in Photoshop in 15 MINUTES or Less

[@timscanlanphotography]

Fantastic ! Can't believe the huge difference you made in so few steps.Thank you for sharing.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nolanwest6831]

Thanks for the video. Informative and to the point. Learning new ways to edit the 🌌

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KGi4]

i love what you have done on the sky. really helpful 🙌

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@krishnaraj101]

Hi Bro.. When i see the exif of your image.. I saw it is on f 7.1 and iso just 100 and shutter 1/7 .. how you got that image with this settings.. wow.. also kindly help me to get the best WB Kelvin for milky way

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I shoot in auto WB and correct in post if needed. Those settings were for the foreground, as I did a blue hour blend.

[@RobWeighill]

Great explanatory video but I only have Photoshop Elements 2022, how much of this can I do using that please?

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I haven’t used Elements in a long time, so I’m not quite sure. You’ll have to try it out. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

[@RobWeighill]

@@AustinJamesJackson , I've had a quick look and there are certainly some aspects of full Photoshop that I was unaware of and that I can usefully adopt in Elements so thank you for pointing me in the right direction

[@cameraman2157]

Really great video learned a lot can't to try you technique out

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Thanks so much!

[@anderslonn730]

Thank you very much Austin, VERY helpfull video

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KenToney]

Do you use RC StarXterminator and if so do you have a video showing how? (Haven’t watched this one yet if it’s in here)

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I do not! It’s easy enough to remove stars in Photoshop without a plugin in my opinion!

[@KenToney]

@@AustinJamesJackson but this puts them on a layer so you can process the MW cloud and reduce noise then add back in

[@Pateteee]

Holy frick. This is amazing, got my sub and like. Thanks!

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Thanks for the sub!

[@00_Ryan_00]

good to see another person edit their MW Landscape. Wondering why you create a mask for both the sky and foreground. One is enough. An inverted mask for the foreground is completely redundant.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I create the inverted mask to apply edits to the foreground and then separate edits to the background. Inverting the mask to put on the other group allows me to edit both separately!

[@00_Ryan_00]

@@AustinJamesJackson I understand you want to edit separately, but you don't need both. Once you create the mask for the sky, you can edit the foreground without a mask and it will not affect your sky. I'm still not sure why you're creating both.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I’ve created two different groups (folders), where one holds the sky adjustments and one holds the foreground adjustments. If I put the mask for the sky on one group where I want to edit the sky, it only applies to everything in this group. When I create the second group, if I apply edits inside the group it will apply to the whole image, including the sky, and I only want to edit the foreground. So I need another layer mask of just the foreground to restrict everything under this group.

[@00_Ryan_00]

@@AustinJamesJackson Austin…you have masked out the sky of your foreground. I’ve been using one mask for 6+ years now. Who cars what happens to the foreground sky. It doesn’t matter since you’re sky mask hides it.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I have no idea what you mean by “foreground sky”. Do you have a time stamp when you are referring to? Either I don’t understand what you are trying to say or you aren’t sure what I’m trying to do. I’ve rewatched the video again and there is no way I could have done what I did with only a single mask.

[@bluereflections969]

Wow that was awesome

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@brianhoskins1979]

On my version of photoshop it complains that it can't apply magic wand to a group. And that's where this tutorial unfortunately ended for me.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

What version do you have?

[@AudioFien]

Malky way

[@AustinJamesJackson]

😂

[@Carl.65]

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