I find your tutorials the best not only for astro work but, Photoshop in general. The knowledge you drop is so well explained. Thank you Ian, hope your life is going well.

Thank you very much for taking the time to post this. I really enjoy astrophotography, and I am fortunate enough to live in a part of the country where the night sky is extremely dark and I can literally walk out my front door, set up my tripod, and shoot the Milky Way. It's dark enough here to see it very well with the naked eye. I've been wanting to learn about image stacking for noise reduction, and this helped me tremendously.

Thank you, Ian! I have only done manual stacking twice and each time this video has helped guide me through the process with such detailed explanations. Superb content!

Excellent ! I tried this workflow with success following every step. The only thing I will do differently next time, is to use the image in the middle as reference instead of the first or last one. This will minimise the alignment effort in average. Thanks again for sharing experiences.

@timreaves3921

5 жыл бұрын

Align to the frame that represents what you want the final image to look like.

You sir, put this clip together with enough knowledge to inform and enough simplicity that it could be easily followed. Great video.

I've been struggling , after viewing your Auto Align video, because of the problem you described here. But I love the ability to do this in Photoshop, rather than another add on or star stacking program. This tutorial hits the mark big time... well constructed, very informative and extremely helpful... Excellent in a word.. Thanks

A great job as always. I have always followed every one of your videos. I hope you post more often.

Will be trying this next week. Thank you for such a great tutorial! Your images are so inspiring!

Excellent tutorial, as well as the one on processing in LR. Just done my first milky way shoot, so really new to this. I found that beyond central alignment in transform, none of the other adjustments really worked well. So I used puppet warp which is fantastic for aligning parts of the image without affecting other aligned parts.

Thank you Yan for this amazing tutorial, it is one of the most detailed tutorial I've seen on KZread. regards,

The best milky way instructional stacking video I've seen! Your the man Ian!

Extremely useful and well explained method! Thanks a lot Ian!

You have a wonderful way of explaining what you're doing and being thorough. Very nice.

Amazing in-depth tutorial! Thanks for being AWESOME!

Absolutely brilliant tutorial. First person on KZread to go this in-depth. I live on Maui, which gives me access to Haleakala. I can't wait to give this a shot.

Fantastic job. And your images are absolutely jaw-dropping.

Thanks for explaining this is a very clear, step-by-step procedure. It is quite a bit of work - however, totally worth it to end up with a great final exposure.

Thank you so much for making this video! I have found out through a lot of photos that this auto alignment error happens a lot. Thank you for solving the issue and helping out my pictures

Wow. That is complicated but the benefits are pretty obvious. Now I know how to do it right. Thanks for such a great, detailed video. Now I need to watch the rest of yours...

Fantastic tutorial. Super in-depth, detailed and well explained. Definitely knowledge in this video that other people never talk about. People would pay good $$ to learn those techniques.

Hi Ian, thanks for this, i followed along (complete astro noob here), and it worked great with shots from my first astro shoot. I could only use 4 exposures as i didnt have stacking in mind at the time of shooting, but it was a good practice run for next night I head out ;)

Awesome tutorial! I´ve been looking for a long time for a workflow, that is quick with good results. Maybe this is the perfect one! I used to get rid of the distortion with Hugin, then stack on Deep Sky Stacker, then retransform in Hugin, then combine fore- and background in Photoshop and give the final touch in Lightroom. It takes so much time and the result is still not perfect. You made my day Ian Norman!

That was all I needed to subscribe and I look forward to watching more of your excellently made tutorials in hope they're as good as this one. As Timelapse photographer I spend most of my time using LR-AE-LRT and the end finished product lands in Premiere Pro to edit the film. So Photoshop has never really been an important step in my workload and there are so many things I still have to learn in PS and you have accelerated that learning curve tremendously with this Tutorial. Thank you very much.

Thanks Ian. I actually shot the milky way in August with the RX100M4 (inspired by your tutorials on how to shoot it) Now I get another help with optimizing the quality. Will try it out. Thanks, Regards from Germany. Cheers

Very well explained.. Will be giving this another bosh tonight. All the best

Thanks so much for this excellent tutorial on noise reduction stacking. Nice and direct and to the point. I used it to learn how to process my first stacked Milky Way shot. And hopefully you find some other specks to hang out with soon so that you won't be lonely forever.

Thank you. It helped me a lot! The difference between image before and after is unbelivable!

there are no words that can describe how thankfull i am.... THANK YOU million times my friend!!!!

Great tutorial as always, Norman. Very detailed and informative. Thanks !

Still useful today, thanks so much for helping me manually stack photos of Comet Neowise over Minneapolis!

Very clear, thorough, and helpful. Thank you.

Thank you so much Ian for all of the information. Your work always inspires me to get out and shoot more. I just recently purchased a Sony a6000 and a Rokinon 12mm f/2.0 I figured for the money I could get that body and lens for less money than the newer a6300 body. Really excited to test this method out with my new gear. I know the a6000 isn't the best in low light, but I think stacking will help clean things up a little. Thanks again for posting this stuff!

Thanks for another great tutorial Ian.

So I know you did this video a while ago... but I just used this method for an image that I posted to a FB group... they begged me for your link so you should be getting more hits for a bit :) thank you for sharing this so clearly it's helped me tremendously.

Thank you so much for spending that much time for the Tutorial !!! Really appreciate it

Very clear and detailed explanation. Subscribed !

Great tutorial!

Thanks for sharing of this great advanced method of layers aligning

GreatWork Ian, thanks for spending time putting this together.

Amazing Ian Norman ! Thank you so much for help !

The amount of times you say "relatively" is relatively numerous. Haha, on a serious note, fantastically helpful video. I find myself returning to it frequently. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 10:50

Thanks Ian a great tutorial as usual hope I could do such photography

That manual alignment method is so straight forward and simple, thank you for sharing.

@dazman1973

8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Norman (Lonely Speck) I have no problem with a bit of labour if it gets results. Now if you could get the clouds here to go away. ;)

Seriously thank for you this! This was so helpful. I just got done shooting some milkyway shots at Joshua tree. And tried using the automatic star stack and it only blurred out my image, even to the point where it looked like there were no stars. This is really going to help my shots out so much more. Thanks a lot for the great tutorial and education!

Really appreciated! Thank you Ian, stoked to play with this.

brilliant tutorial! thanks a bunch! really appreciate all the effort that goes into making these tuts.

Thanks for the tutorial and taking the time to show all the details!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I'll try asap!

Very impressive, quite a long method but no doubt it pays off. Great work.

Thank you so much for this great video. I tried it out on some cellphone shots and the method reduced the noise quite a fair amount! Even when DSS didn't want to work for me.

Just finished my first milky way stack. Thanks for the video. It was hella tedious manually stacking 11 frames but it was worth it in the end, the result i got

Awesome video! Very inspiring

Very helpful and clear. Thanks! Can't wait for a clear night now :D

Good job man...Nice tutorial

Great tutorial! Thanks so much, just what I've been looking for!

This is a wonderful, useful technique. I can't wait to try it out in a few months. I have older Canon bodies that are very noisy at high ISO. This should help very much.

Excellent tutorial Ian. I can not wait to do this. I live in a horribly light polluted big city and need to drive out to west Texas to find a dark sky. Maybe a camping trip to Big Bend.

Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Ian- Just attempted this with Jpeg files (my photoshop won't read my nikon raws_ - only used 3 Jpegs and still this method significantly reduced noise will still retaining lots of detail. Love this method! Alex

Excellent tutorial. Thanks heaps.

Great explanation!! Thanks a lot!

I have tried for so long to get a good shot of our galaxy. I shoot the 5DII with Rokinon 14mm f2.8, the canon is not terrible by any means but I know not the best for noise compared to a couple other full framed. It was enough to frustrate me with the unclean look of my galaxy shots. Anyways, I tried this technique for the first time tonight, combined with your other tut, and some minor adjustments for my own tastes, I have definitely found my post processing workflow for this kind of photography without having to go out and getting a Sony A7RII (though I would love to have one down the road). You just made my day

Amazing tutorial. Thank you so much!

Great video! I've been wanting to get into astrophotography and been disappointed by the amount of noise in my images, this'll be really helpful :)

@Clove_Parma

8 жыл бұрын

***** I'm sure it will. Keep up the good work.

Good job Norman and thank you

Wow, this solves the existing problems with the Rokinon 14mm. Thanks!

Thanks so much for this tutorial

Great tutorial. Thanks so much

Very well done, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you so much! I was depressed that i could not align my stars from Perseid 2016 untill I saw this. You saved that day!

Amazing work! And that you did this with an RX100 M3!

Excellent work

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AMAZING TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!

Very good results. thanks

this was incredibly helpful. Thanks a lot!

Awesome tutorial! Not gonna lie, I think ill take my chances with a single exposure and ironing out noise than going through this for a bit less noise. Hopefully in the near future as sensors advance we won't need to do all this. Happy I found your KZread channel. Cheers

Great video! Also consider using Dark frames to further reduce noise and Flat Field frames do wonders to help eliminate vignetting etc. These are standard procedure in proper (tracked) astrophotography and can be used in landscape astro images also, it just takes a little time and thought. Keep up the good work Ian, Landscape astrophotos can be as simple or complex as the imager chooses, that to me is part of its appeal

@stevenchristenson2565

8 жыл бұрын

+photon_trap To echo this... flat frames are way more effective than "vignette correction" and can serve one additional useful purpose: reducing dust. The easiest way to take a flat frame is to turn on your tablet or iPad on a plain grey or white screen, cover the lens with it and take normal exposures. Best to do this before you change the focus since vignetting actually changes with aperture, focus or zoom changes in the lens. Great work, Ian.

@RussianSevereWeatherVideos

7 жыл бұрын

How would you apply them to this process though? Care to explain a bit further please?

It angers me that my versions of CS6 doesn't have support stacking. It's infuriating because it's there, just grayed out. Wish I anticipated that before buying it but am really glad that this tutorial links to one to help folks like me.

Thanks for the great tutorial! Probably one of the best free stacking tutorial I've seen on KZread! (btw I'll probably buy a star tracker instead of going through this whole process.

Wow, well I'm going to try and use some of this information to make my M42 image better. I used a celeston 6SE telescope so the Orion nebula is pretty big in the frame.

Thank you so much for making this informative tutorial. You have truly helped me a lot with your videos, I cannot thank you enough. (:

awesome tutorial, thanks!!

Great tute

This is really good, thank you!

Man you are genious! Thank you!

Thanks , this is awesome!!

super helpful. thank you!

Love it !! Thank you

Brilliant, thanks man

great tutorial! looking forward to try it Question: Can you print it out afterwards? At what size do you see the noise on the printout?

thank you!! brilliant video!!

@xrayzone21

8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Norman (Lonely Speck) i actually spent the last week trying to align some milky way shots just rotating them and changing the rotation point...

Thank you. Great tutorial!

Great work guys! I've lost count on how many times I had to step back though. ;-D

You should invest in a light tracker like an iOptron Skytracker Ian. I have one myself and delighted with how easy it is to set up. That coupled with your A7s will get mind blowing results id say !!

Great tutorial! This technique is very similar to mine.

amazing! thanks a lot for sharing!

Thanks, Ian!

Great video, thank you :)

Thanks for this tut. :)

Greatest !!! Thank you