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- Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:16 pm
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: White balance advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14753
Re: White balance advice
Thanks for your quick reply. I am glad to hear that I at least I got the other DSS setting right. However, I am running into a few things. I am using the latest beta version of StarTools and I seem to have an issue using the new Restore feature. If I restore to Linear and Wiped, I get what looks lik...
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:13 pm
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: White balance advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14753
Re: White balance advice
Thanks Ivo. I figured the Develop module was the wrong place and I have been trying to work out a translation of the Regim numbers. With regard to your scale in the color module, the value of the RGB sliders go from 1 to 10. Is 1 equivalent to 100%? So with your calculated numbers I would leave red ...
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:59 am
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: White balance advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14753
Re: White balance advice
Here are my results. I just cropped out a small part of my image so I could show at full resolution. color balanced before StarTools: CROP_OLD.jpg color balance in StarTools: CROP_NEW.jpg The only thing I was not sure of was how to apply the Regim color balance values. After I did the wipe and clear...
- Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:31 am
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: White balance advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14753
Re: White balance advice
Thanks for the tip Ivo. I had been wondering how I could incorporate Regim's color balance without affecting the StarTools noise reduction logic. Your explanation makes sense to me. I will give that a shot and let you know how it goes. It would be an awesome enhancement to add this type of color bal...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 3:49 am
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: White balance advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14753
Re: White balance advice
Thanks for the detailed explanation Ivo. Using the camera white balance was an easy way for me to get good looking colors but was costing me noise. I will give your suggestions a try. Taking this a step further, would it be possible to modify StarTools to solve the stars and locate G2V stars automat...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:08 pm
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: HDR with image sets of multiple exposure times
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6939
Re: HDR with image sets of multiple exposure times
If I'm using DSS to create different stacks they will differ slightly Pick a frame from one of your stacks as a referenced frame. I usually move this frame to a higher level directory to differentiate it from the others. Then in each stack include this frame, but leave it uncheck for the stacks tha...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 5:57 am
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: White balance advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14753
White balance advice
I am having a lot less issues with color balancing as I used to, but I would like to get a better understanding of how StarTools does it and get advice on how I can improve my process. My current method is to use a custom white balance on my modded DSLR and then have DSS use the cameras white balanc...
- Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:00 am
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: StarTools helped me win a Cloudy Nights Challenge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4804
StarTools helped me win a Cloudy Nights Challenge
I have less than a year of experience with DSO AP. In June I entered the Cloudy Nights Beginner DSO challenge and won. I was just learning autoguiding at the time and was struggling with it. The old dec backlash issue with my celestron mount. StarTools played a big role in saving the image and winni...
- Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:11 am
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: My problem with the Life Module
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10294
Re: My problem with the Life Module
That is awesome Ivo. Thanks for the detailed play by play. Your processing of my picture also gives me a benchmark to compare my results against. I am still learning my new mount so I hope to get some better starting data once the clouds clear. Thanks again.
Jeff
Jeff
- Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:53 am
- Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
- Topic: My problem with the Life Module
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10294
Re: My problem with the Life Module
Ivo,
Just sent you an email with link. You can post your result here if you like.
Thanks,
Jeff
Just sent you an email with link. You can post your result here if you like.
Thanks,
Jeff