Further Processing in Photoshop Back | Up | Next

The planetary image processing programs AutoStakkert!, AviStack, and RegiStax have done the highly specialized tasks of grading, multi-point aligning, and stacking hundreds or thousands of video frames to produce our stacked image.

We then sharpened the stacked image with wavelets in one of those programs or with deconvolution in Astra Image or Images Plus.

After these primary steps most of the heavy lifting has been done, but there usually remains some work to be done.

Many of these steps can be done in RegiStax, but some are more easily done in Photoshop. The basics are pretty simple and the same no matter what program you use.

Note that you certainly don't have to perform every step here on every image.


Further Processing in Photoshop - The Bottom Line

Unfortunately, Photoshop is a very expensive program, but it is the industry standard for normal image processing. Many of the steps included here can be performed in GIMP (Gnu Image Processing), a freeware program, and in RegiStax or Images Plus.

These additional processing steps the are performed after lucky imaging grading, aligning and stacking in specialized planetary image processing programs are included here because Photoshop is the standard in image processing and many people do use it.

These tutorials were done with Photoshop CS5.


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