{"id":88,"date":"2020-01-15T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-09-17T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:00:14","slug":"final-editing-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/15\/final-editing-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Editing Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Astrophotography Edit Best Practices<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Capture – Calibrate – Stack – Edit<\/span><\/p>\n

Editing HyperStar Nebulae in Affinity Photo<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. In DSS, balance color, increase saturation and save with adjustments; open in Affinity Photo<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Apply curves for each channel to balance colors.\u00a0 Attenuate green and blue, and slightly boost red as needed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Apply curves to increase contrast with \u201cS\u201d curve: decrease shadows and increase highlights.\u00a0 Never push highlights too far.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Increase contrast, rebalance brightness.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Denoise and Unsharp Mask.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Tweak settings for best image.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Export JPEG and post!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Astrophotography Edit Best Practices Capture – Calibrate – Stack – Edit Editing HyperStar Nebulae in Affinity Photo   In DSS, balance color, increase saturation and . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[31,18,48,47],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography-editing","tag-affinity-photo","tag-astrophotography","tag-deep-sky-stacker","tag-dss"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}