Hey guys, long story short Im ruining the stars in my current image. Usually I process my images very basically i.e: Crop, DBE, Colour Calibration, Stretch, Local Histogram Eq..., Curves and then clean up the background, and it leaves a good result.
This time I have a rather faint target, so I have had to stretch it quite a lot, hence why the stars look terrible!
I have started again and created and applied a star mask before stretching it, then slowly adjusting the histogram before I see artefacts caused by the mask. Is this an OK way or is there a better way to protect the stars? I feel like I need to stretch/saturate the stars and galaxy separately to keep it looking good.
Erik
