STEVE333 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:03 pm
Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:01 am
I tried another go at SCNR at 1.0 on the my final image but is turned everything brown! Perhaps I'll try it from scratch again with a good dose of SCNR and see where it goes!
Regards
Graeme
Hi Graeme - The SCNR will definitely add more golds and browns to the image. I tried it again with your image as follows:
In the end it is really what looks best to you. If you like the original better, then, that is the right one for you. Everybody's personal taste is different and none are right or wrong (just my opinion).
Enjoy and have fun.
Steve
@STEVE333 @Graeme1858
It is a really interesting to me that little or no green in SHO images has become the most popular way to do it. As I alluded to in my original post I tried to keep some green in mine because whenever I think of the "Hubble Palette" my mind immediately goes to the day I picked up the National Geographic and saw the original "Pillars of Creation" image - which had significant green in it - and nasty magenta stars
. I was absolutely awed by that image and remain so to this day. The size (I remember the caption saying that each "finger" was wider across its short side than our entire solar system), the colours and what they meant, just the shear beauty of the image. So for me a SHO "Hubble Palette" should have some green in it. And honestly, probably because of my reaction to that original image I personally prefer some green in those images. But as Steve says, with NB colours there really is no right or wrong and we should do what we think looks the best (What pleases us most I guess)
But I decided to have a look at my image with the green removed using SCNR and this is what came out;
and to save you trawling back up, this is my original
Now, thanks to the fantastic data from
@yobbo89 these images are probably my best result from processing since I started
AP - but which is the best of the two? I don't think its possible to say either is better than the other. But I can say that I still prefer the original with its green.
But the blue is pretty cool too.
Interested to hear your thoughts.
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