People use different "recipes" for their workflow for PI, that is a given. There are SO many tools that it is hard not to.
What would be great is to see what steps some people take, and when.
To me the early steps seem pretty straightforward, from a newbie standpoint, assuming that you have your masters set up (which I don't yet)-
- Image Grading/rejetion
- Image Calibration (if you have masters)
- Image Registration (What I have been doing here is registering all images of a given target against the same, regardless of iso/exposure)
- Image Integration (I try multiple things here, still learning)
- Integrate them all at once, just to see what it looks like
- For targets with blooming (m4 for example), integrate some smaller chunks of similar exposure/iso
(not mentioning STF, because to me that is a given every step of the way)
At this point, I would have one (or more) integrated images (note that I am using a DSLR, will be moving to a OSC soon- mono-cams would have multiples I would think)
Where do you normally go from here? I would think that some other common steps would be
- Dynamic Crop
- Background Extraction (ABE or DBE, I seem to have better luck with ABE)
- Color Calibration
- Histogram Transform
- Noise Reduction (ADCNR? Something Else?)
- SCNR
- Sharpen/Unsharpen
- Tweak Curves
Where in the above would the HDR Composition come in? Should the background be extracted before combining, or after (does it even matter)?
Are there any steps that should be moved before or after the Histogram Transform?
I tried going through the gallery, but not many include their processing steps...
Thanks for reading,
-jamie
