Combining starless and stars, less nebula

Pawel Kolano

Hi,

I've noticed I often have nice starless with nebulosity structures etc, and when combining with stars, a lot of this stuff seems to be gone.

I've tried stretching stars more/less, doesn't help. Also tried changing image "amount" in Combine Images.

Is this because of my starless image being stretched and too bright in a sense? or is some faint detail in stars image masking the cool stuff?

I have to combine images, and then use curves to get all the structures out, but it's not ideal solution.

BlockHead

Yes,  concerning the stretch of the star image. The stars are not "masking" anything. It is really a perception/illusion thing. I show examples of how to manage this in the Workflow examples (like LDN 183).

-the Blockhead