I recently did m51 HaLRGB and I thought I got great colors, but for some reason, having trouble with m101.Away, can I get some assistance? I tried synthetic lum and synthetic chrominance, (rgb only in chrominance) but galaxy is kind of one color...
I will google drive the files, anu help is highly appreciated!
I used astro pixel processor to stack, and as far as I know, I used the simplest methods, no local normalization(lnc) or mbb during stacking, as I know ST likes data likes this.
I know ST is great, but there are tools that I think i just simply dont know how to use right

I auto dev- wipe- auto dev- decon- sharp- contrast- hdr- life-then life again on isolate- colors- stop track and noise reduce is my normal workflow, I think masking is my biggest issue, along with colors.
I was under assumption when masks are turned off, the unmasked portion remains the same...no? on life isolate preset video on youtube (I just saw it so haven't done it myself yet) it appears a mask was set on veil, but when processing was complete the unmasked area was darker.. can you explain?
sorry to bug you again Ivo

Adam
Ha- https://drive.google.com/open?id=101uzQ ... UknwbHPnk6
lum- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1atqie ... A1fkViugl2
red- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1whf3T ... T9Cb0jHJ3T
green - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YYvfC ... HHhkoyHi1Q
blue- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xZ9zx ... _uOyO9uoCr