New PI User

[Luigi]

Hello all. Not sure if this is the right area to post, but I just wanted to introduce myself.

I bought my license to PI just last night and wanted to thank all of the members whose posts helped me over the learning curve and made me feel comfortable buying such advanced software. I figure any software that can improve my images is well worth the money

[Carlos Milovic]

Welcome

PS: I love that Impreza

[papaf]

Welcome! I bought my license yesterday too! It's a great piece of software, don't you think? It made my images better too...

Fabio

[Harry page]

Welcome to pixinsight


Fresh meat       Oh did I say that out loud


Good luck and don't be shy in asking questions , someone will know the answer


Harry

[Luigi]

Thanks for the welcome. No doubt I'll have questions. Knowing which tool to apply at which point in the processing flow is probably the top of the list. And, how does one use the ATrousWavelet tool (and when)?

So far I've used this flow:
dbe --> histo stretch --> hdr wavelet --> acdnr
maybe a saturation boost and I've tried the star mask to fiddle with star colors and such.

So much to learn 

[Jack Harvey]

Great to have both of you.  As the PI community grows things are just gonna get better!

[mmirot]

Louis that's a good work flow.  It is pretty much what I do.
 I add in color calibration if it is a RGB Image.  Curves with a saturation adjustment after the histogram too

Star mask might help if HDR is over sharpening your stars.

Max

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Louis,

Welcome to PixInsight Forum!

Feel free to participate and ask whatever you want; a lot of nice people will be glad to help you here.

Your sequence of operations is correct. DBE works better, in general, with linear data. You usually need ScreenTransferFunction (STF) to work with DBE on linear images. HDRWaveletTransform wants nonlinear images, so it must be applied after a nonlinear histogram stretch. The same for ACDNR.

[canebane]

I am new user too....great piece of software...you need some time for learning, but pictures looks better.

Brane