Orton Glow Utility

[@RigoFromSpain]

Bedankt

[@standfest_party]

Many thanks for the script! Works great!

[@gregerianne3880]

Thanks for this, Paul! I created an Orton effect for the first time the other day, but it was in Photoshop. It's wonderful that you've integrated this into a PI script! Very helpful, and I'm going to give it a try a little later. Thanks again!

[@RigoFromSpain]

Great script espec with the preview Thx

[@ridetheliger4176]

Thank you, Paul! By the time I installed it after your previous video, it was already the 1.0 version.

[@rtpman1953]

Thanks for your work in creating this script. I believe it will find numerous uses in my workflow. Nice that you got the preview working.

[@mickwhitaker4086]

Great work mukka, quick out of the blocks. I think this is going to be a great addition to my workflow. Well done and thank you.

[@petebooth5121]

Quick work buddy. Preview works well. Process is pleasingly fast. Loving the results.

[@Arcteek]

Thank you!

[@rosarodriguez7374]

Great!! Thanks a lot for your new script. It looks very interesting, I`ll try it 😊

[@nikaxstrophotography]

Thanks Paulie it works well

[@TheMje1963]

Thanks, I'll be playing with it :)

[@stephen2615]

Whats the music on the intro? Still working on finding an appropriate image that really shines with this script.

[@PaulymanAstro]

Honestly I think it won’t start to truly shine until I can work in some masking. The Orton Effect as it stands will apply equally to the darker regions and the lighter regions. So if you have any nice dark nebulosity in the image it can brighten that as well. That’s not to say you can’t create your own mask now and apply it to your image before applying the script. The music is a piece of stock music from Envato Elements.

[@AstroCapture325]

It's great to see the community identifying areas of the Pixinsight workflow process that can be automated and then writing scripts to perform those actions. Thank you! Is this script effective for OSC images too, or mainly just for mono imaging?

[@PaulymanAstro]

Thanks. It will work on a OSC image.

[@mortenlerager4846]

Great work, thank you. I dont know how you can install it, like you show. After install and update the repository the script dont show up in the utility folder. I have to go to Script > feature script and add the script folder. First then it show up. Great glow script for NB Image.

[@morfoto]

Any suggestions for what to do if the Create Duplicate for Glow button doesn't do anything? The processing window doesn't show any process starting, no second view is created.

[@morfoto]

while the script defaults to select a view (I only had one open), it seems I still need to manually select that same view before the script will work.

[@PaulymanAstro]

I’m not entirely sure what goes on there. I have had it occasionally do nothing as well. I think it has to do with ensuring you select your image in the drop down and then give it a few moments to process the preview before pressing the Create Duplicate button. When you select an image you should see the console running once it stops that’s the point you should be able to press the button and get a duplicate created.

[@morfoto]

@@PaulymanAstro what's interesting is the preview is generated upon launching the script even when I don't select a view but the let the script choose the only one available. Still, got it working!

[@Nick-we7lf]

Link doesnt work ...

[@SuperNova-py1ec]

Is this applied to a fully processed image? Apologies as I have not had time to watch the other video on this script. I am finding the Soft light option is giving me some good results too.

[@PaulymanAstro]

Yes it is best applied late in processing. Screen and Soft Light work really nicely.

[@stephenames09]

I am having a new problem with this new script PixelMath: Processing view: Elephants_Trunk_Nebula Writing swap files... 637.598 MiB/s *** Error: No such image: 1*iif(Elephants_Trunk_Nebula> 0.5, ~(~(2*(Elephants_Trunk_Nebula- 0.5)) * ~Elephants_Trunk_Nebula_glow), 2*Elephants_Trunk_Nebula*Elephants_Trunk_Nebula_glow)+~1*Elephants_Trunk_Nebula ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ Reading swap files... 468.251 MiB/s Orton Glow Utility Dialog Closed. The V.0 ver.script worked but not V1.0 any ideas? Steve

[@PaulymanAstro]

I managed to reproduce the error. It occurs when either you don’t press the “Create Duplicate for Glow” button or you do press it but you press it too soon after choosing your image from the drop down. The script does some quick processing for the preview when you select an image from the drop down and I have found if that doesn’t finish (you can see it happening in the process console) then even though you press the create glow button the glow image isn’t created. Once the preview has updated pressing the create glow button again should work. I will have to do some debugging of the script for the next update and will likely set it up like Foraxx Palette so that you can only proceed once previous steps are complete and the script will only finalise if all conditions are met.