It's easy to pull up the Shining galaxy with the starter machine.

Picture parameters: ISO 1600; 25s; f/3.2. If you use a newer SLR, you can turn the ISO up again. The image used in the article 500D, in the case of high ISO noise will be more serious.

Open raw with Photoshop, and adjust the white blance, lest the photo be too yellow. Try to increase highlights, whites, contrast. The Galaxy will be more visible if the blacks is lowered.

Then open the picture, to sharpen the Milky Way again. Copy the picture of the layer, and then the USM Sharpening, do not overdo on the line. Then create a new layer, erase the parts that are not part of the Milky Way, and use Gaussian blur to feather the edges of the Mask. Transfer to the galactic body is not blurred, and the edge is not too it.

Then merge the layers to make other changes, such as changing the contrast to make the galaxy more visible. This can be used to paint off the irrelevant lights and so on with the chop tool.

What if the dark part is too dark in the picture? You can create a new layer on the galactic layer, place the original image, and then go to the lower part of the diagram. Or create a new layer and add a gradient map.

Comparison diagram, the introduction of the method is relatively simple, there is a dedicated star processing software called Deep Sky Stacker, interested in the advanced film friends can go to understand.

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