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My Most Powerful Astrophotography Processing Secrets

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Complete Image Processing Guide: https://sellfy.com/p/0zsyyq/

In this video, I share the most powerful image processing techniques I use in Adobe Photoshop. These are rather simple steps you can use on your next astrophotography processing session.

Essentially, you need to process each color channel SEPERATELY because the signal, noise profile and star size will vary!

Assessing and Editing RGB Color Photos channel by channel

2. Selective Noise Reduction on a per-channel basis
3. Selective Star Minimizing on a per-channel basis
4. Building and Adding a Luminance Layer for better highlights

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