11 steps to astrophotography editing in photoshop

Here are my favorite Photoshop astrophotography editing techniques from the web, along with a few of my own. This video picks up where my video on stacking data in Deep Sky Stacker left off. Watch it here:    • Astrophotography Image Processing: Step 1 ...   Table of contents: 0:00 Cheesy Intro 3:33 Importing the stacked image 4:10 Creating a false-color palette 6:59 Preparing the DSS star Mask 15:04 Stretch the deep sky object 21:43 Smart filters and Camera Raw 29:59 High-pass sharpen 32:10 Performance cleanup 33:28 Finalizing the stars 35:57 Shrink and sharpen the stars 38:46 Mixing in extra data 44:42 Final touches and exporting Acknowledgements to: Astrobackyard:    / astrobackyard   Piximperfect:    / piximperfect   Thanks for the love: Nebula Photos:    / nebulaphotos   Chucks Astrophotography:    / chucksastrophotography   Produced by: Michael Wilson Music by: John Cola