I cannot tell you how much you've helped me with this tutorial! Honestly, this has been an amazing way to save my pictures, thank you!

Thank you, this is just what I needed.

Thanks a lot for this howto! Exactly what I was looking for!

Super easy, thank you so much!

Thanks a lot! This tutorial is going to be really helpful for me!

I just used this PS process on a recent M51 image. Worked like a charm and tamed the background. Great info Nick!

Nailed it my friend! Love Gradient XTerminator! Many thanks ....

@AstroExploring

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It’s a really powerful plug in

I’m learning so much from these videos that I’m forgetting other things. Thanks for all the info Sir! Really getting a lot of useful tips from the vids!

@AstroExploring

3 жыл бұрын

You’re too kind, sir!

Master! Nice tutorial again Nick!

@AstroExploring

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bas!

Excelent video. Thank you very mych.

Thank you so much dude my image of Andromeda is so much better now!

Múy útil y práctico. Congratulations.

I was processing this exact galaxy last night and struggling (and swearing) because I'm still learning PS and could not for the life of me figure out the damn gradient! Thank you so much for this.

Awesome video ! I'll try on my next image your method, even though I may buy the plugin real soon. Clear skies !

@AstroExploring

4 жыл бұрын

The plugin does work better but i appreciate not everyone will want to spend money 🙂

I don't want to sound like a sellout, but this was probably the best $50 that I've spent on this hobby.

GradientXTerminator is excellent. I used to use it how you are but when I started following what Russell advises the quality went up. It's best to for most images, run it on the entire image at Medium, Low, balance background colour. Then after that's complete, new merged layer. Now pick the magic wand tool with a low tolerance about 5-10 and pick off the background. Use + to add to this if needed. if it gets nebula, try again or minus the selection with the lasso tool. Finally, involk the filter at High, Fine. The free way is not bad, but does delete low signal - but will likely only matter if shooting stuff like IFN. GradientXTerminator is worth it's money, every time. I also recommend StarXTerminator.

Hi Nick you were dead right the other day on twitter this is exactly what i needed to watch awesome and of the same images too spooky lol

@AstroExploring

4 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah spooky indeed!

Sometimes, especially for larger galaxies, I've found it useful to remove stars first, then get rid of the galaxy. That way it can be easier to find a patch of sky near the galaxy to sample.

Impressive! Very useful to me, thank you :-)

@AstroExploring

4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

Thank you, that was very useful video due to can't use Paypal for that plugin in my country.

Great video but Color Range/Highlights is greyed out for me :-(

So whenever doing the "free" option, I get these lines across my image. Grey lines

@acombo

Жыл бұрын

same

Great video and very helpful. Can you do one on the Astronomy Tools plugin?

@AstroExploring

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I will definitely do one in the future 🙂

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Really useful workflow there! I'll be going back to fix a few of my recent shots. I notice you've got NC's astronomy tools as well - do you find it useful / worth the purchase?

@AstroExploring

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt! Yeah it’s very, very useful. Easily worth it, it only costs $22 and it was 20% off when I bought it so it worked out to cost about £15 after conversion

@scarpography

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely worth it, I got it for 16$ and it's like magic