Yannis Doukakis
Well-known member
If you have latest Lightroom and a fairly powerful computer, after you do all the processing in linear space, you just do a gentle Histogram transformation (more gentle than the STF auto), protecting mainy the highlights, save the image into 32-bit float TIFF and load it in Lightroom.
There you can easily fine-tune White balance (to make it aesthetically more pleasing), adjust Highlights and Shadows.
The "texture" value makes the stars a little bit more prominent.
The Vibrance and a little bit the Saturation can help eliminate the desaturating effects of LRGB
You can use color profiles (see Modern 07 - gives contrast and colours a punch)
Noise Reduction should be done in PixInsight - NR of LR is too damaging for galaxy cores, stars.
Usually you have to start by increasing Exposure to 1-2 stops at least.
The advantages are that all the above are non-destructive so it is easy to "play" with them.
I may sound heretic in PixInsight forum, but what I would like to share is that 32-bit float TIFF is a nice format in case you want to share data with Lightroom. In Photoshop, you have to turn on, Preferences->File Handling->Use ACR to convert 32 to 16 bit and then load the float image and switch the image mode to 16 bit.
There you can easily fine-tune White balance (to make it aesthetically more pleasing), adjust Highlights and Shadows.
The "texture" value makes the stars a little bit more prominent.
The Vibrance and a little bit the Saturation can help eliminate the desaturating effects of LRGB
You can use color profiles (see Modern 07 - gives contrast and colours a punch)
Noise Reduction should be done in PixInsight - NR of LR is too damaging for galaxy cores, stars.
Usually you have to start by increasing Exposure to 1-2 stops at least.
The advantages are that all the above are non-destructive so it is easy to "play" with them.
I may sound heretic in PixInsight forum, but what I would like to share is that 32-bit float TIFF is a nice format in case you want to share data with Lightroom. In Photoshop, you have to turn on, Preferences->File Handling->Use ACR to convert 32 to 16 bit and then load the float image and switch the image mode to 16 bit.