NGC2174-2

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Comment by Marc Basti on January 10, 2012 at 2:55am

Phillip, Conor thanks. Phillip that answered some questions, I got a couple things I'm not sure of I'll send over, appreciate that, Marc

Comment by Conor on January 9, 2012 at 12:33pm

Some nice details here man. So many stars too...

Comment by Philip A Cruden on January 9, 2012 at 8:43am

Hey Marc, if you are working in a Photoshop file for final processing your layers in photoshop will in most cases always look a little brighter. I see you saved the image as a PNG and if you have applied any EFX layers in Photoshop some of those layers like "mutiply", "screen" do not respond well in PNG because PNG is in alpha. What I would try is saving your final as both a PNG and a Jpeg, pull both of these into Photoshop and do a side by side comparison to the original PSD and then adjust accordingly. The other thing that may help is to do all your work in the dark or close to it. One other thing to do is to make sure your BG color of you Photoshop window is Black, this can be changed in preferences in the edit colum, this is important because your eyes will see colors and brightness differently if the Photoshop window is grey. Also at the end of adjusting make the image full screen blocking out everything on your computer and turn off all light sourses. If some of this onfo is confusing, let me know and we can do a chat if you would like. All the best, Phil

Comment by Marc Basti on January 9, 2012 at 3:51am

Hey guys thanks. My biggest battle (one of them lol) is how bright to make a pic for presentation. After staring at a monitor for a few hours it always looks "bright enough", then I'll post it and it's dark and dull. Any ideas on how best to gauge this. Marc

Comment by Philip A Cruden on January 6, 2012 at 10:37pm

very cool

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on January 3, 2012 at 8:35pm

Anytime brother, monster improvement!

Comment by Trevor Jones on January 3, 2012 at 8:15pm

Comment by Marc Basti on January 3, 2012 at 12:55pm

T, thanks for being another set of eyes on this. Marc