Duration: 2 hours
Experience: Beginner
Software needed: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Capturing your night images is only half the work, RAW data must be processed in the correct way to gain all the details and colors.
Module 1: Ethics & Best Practices
Discussing the ethics of astrophotography post-processing
Avoiding excessive manipulation and misleading representations
Properly crediting data sources
Module 2: Introduction to Post-Processing in Astrophotography
Overview of the importance of post-processing
Discussion on RAW vs. JPEG images in astrophotography
Introduction to popular post-processing software
Camera Raw tour
Step-by-step guide to image pre-processing (WB, sharpening, denoise)
Module 3: Image Enhancement Techniques
Edit in Camera RAW or Lightroom
Foreground adjustments
Sky adjustments (fix color blotches/color correction, stretching techniques, contrast with curves)
Duration: 2 hours
Experience: Beginner
Software needed: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Capturing your night images is only half the work, RAW data must be processed in the correct way to gain all the details and colors.
Module 1: Ethics & Best Practices
Discussing the ethics of astrophotography post-processing
Avoiding excessive manipulation and misleading representations
Properly crediting data sources
Module 2: Introduction to Post-Processing in Astrophotography
Overview of the importance of post-processing
Discussion on RAW vs. JPEG images in astrophotography
Introduction to popular post-processing software
Camera Raw tour
Step-by-step guide to image pre-processing (WB, sharpening, denoise)
Module 3: Image Enhancement Techniques
Edit in Camera RAW or Lightroom
Foreground adjustments
Sky adjustments (fix color blotches/color correction, stretching techniques, contrast with curves)
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