Basic Astro Image Processing with Affinity Photo
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2020
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Hi!
In this video i show you how to do some basic image processing of astro images in Affinity Photo
I cover:
-how to convert to 16bit (from 32 bit)
-how to stretch an image using the levels tool
-how to do a curves adjustment
-sharpening in develop persona (a bit like adobe camera raw)
-noise reduction in develop persona and from the filters menu
-how to save and export your image
-how to enable photoshop plugins in affinity
I briefly touch upon dust and scratches and minimum blur.
I'm hoping this will be the first of many videos, its not meant to be a definitive guide..its just to get you started (hopefully).
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Absolutely brilliant! Thank you. Total beginner here and you've made my first shot of Orion Nebula look amazing!
At last a simple and easy to understand tutorial. Thank you, Stacey
I've been using affinity for Astrophotography for over a year because I didn't want to pay a subscription and I found it cool that you quickly found how useful levels adjustments are as that was my first real breakthrough. After that I learned to use the pixel layer as a mask for things like sharpening to prevent the highlights from blowing out and denoising to retain the detail in the bright areas as the signal to noise ratio is already acceptable to begin with. I'm still trying to learn how to properly edit individual color channels but it's been rather difficult to wrap my head around
Thank you for this, I was staring at the various options wondering where to start and you have given me some excellent tips, Affinity may just become my favourite goto tool for image adjustment.
Thank you. This is what I have wanted to see. I hope you will do more Affinity with Astrophotos lessons.
So glad you posted this! Friends do not let friends use Photoshop! As a retired Professional Photographer, I no longer ANY Adobe products. Their subscription system is downright evil. I use affinity photo now!
One of the best tututorials ive seen thank you.
I know you are not a big affinity user but I sure appreciate this video as I am pretty committed to Affinity Photo. This helped, especially regarding stretching. I am a rookie and it is appreciated.
Brilliant, just what I’ve been searching for. Many thanks.
Thanks for this. It looks very promising. Also, great pic!
Affinity Photo is fantastic for photo editing. I am glad I found a video on it being used for Astro.
It may be time for another Affintiy photo tutorial - perhaps this time you could discuss the new stacking feature, live filters, remove background filter, and 32 bit linear workflow. It’s a great app, but still somewhat intimidating for me. Another tutorial by you would be duper helpful!
Really useful and clear tutorial, I very much appreciate you taking the time to share, thank you! :-)
Thanks for this. My photoshop CS6 was bricked by Mac. So I am using affinity for most projects. This will help.
Hi. Thanks for your video. I have two questions. 1st. When you convert to rgb 16bit you choose the .dark. what's the difference? 2nd. How to boost colours in astrophoto. Thank you
Great job Stace. Keep up the good work.
Thanks again for a very good video. I'm hoping to get some basic shots of the Milky Way in the next few days.
I didn't know about Develop Persona and I had thought they might have created something similar to Camera Raw. Very useful video. Hope to see more processing with AP.
Hello, looking forward to the video :)
I was convinced by your video to buy Affinity photo. Thanks!
Nice one Stacey. This looks quite good. GUI doesn't look too sleek but seems pretty powerful. Would be nice to get away from that Photoshop monthly cost as well. May look into this myself someday.
I wish I'd watched this in April. Excellent!
Thank you for sharing !!
Great tutorial! Thank you :)
Hi Stace. Can I ask how many shots you took to get this image and did you stack them in Affinity? Great video!
Thanks, informative
Stace, thank you so much for sharing this, everyone seems to use PS/LR , I've had affinity for 2 yrs, and didn't realise this could be done. Keep it up, you're doing a grand job. 👍🏼
Hello, thanks for the video. I have downloaded the latest version of Affinity but i do not have the option to save/convert file format to sRGB with 'black scaled'. Any ideas please? Or where/how do i find and add this to my Affinity. Thanks!
Hello Stacey. I'm new to astrophotography and your processing video using Affinity was easy to follow and a great intro to processing. I can't say the same for the new version. Is there a way to get the older version download of Affinity?
I almost bought this when I first got into astro. I might give it another look for the $25 price tag.
What an unbelievable lovely voice and helpful content!!
Thank you 😊
Amazing tutorial
This is superb Stacey. I am really liking this bit of software. I think it's going to be good bye PhotoShop
Yes, goodbye Photoshop!
Great tutorial, very helpful, thanks. Is any of that possible with the iPad version of affinity?
Get video! I'm new to Affinity and I've been trying to get the HLVG thing to work...I have it mapped and it shows up in the pick list but it won't let me click on it. Does PS need to be installed also for it to work?
Nice, it does make sense to crop once you've stretched so you can see what you're dealing with, and I like the picker tip as it takes the guess work out of adjusting the curve. The software looks like a great budget alternative, do you prefer it to GIMP? Some of the wording looks confusing though (develop persona lol) As you're also new to the software I think you did great to put a good and useful tutorial together so quickly. Pretty cool, well done Stace :)
Thank you! I never got on with GIMP...maybe I need to have a look at that again now I have a bit more experience:) I sense a comparison video on the horizon :)
@@AstroStace Ah there you go! Battle of the budget editing suits :D
@@AstroStace g`day stace i was going to ask the same question about gimp , how it compares to it .. i also hate the photoshop subscription model the constant cost that i might not use for a few months at a time i much prefer a one off payment mode like pixinsight and astro pixel processor not that i have any of the programs listed i am still looking at all and which one to get (pixinsight is winning as there is a lot of tutorials to learn how it works ) thanks for the great video and another option to look at .. looking forward to your follow up video on your opinion of the program once you have had a chance to get to know it more over time
cheers
james D
Having looked at your PS workflows which I thought would be helpful, I then thought I`d try Affinity tutorials as I have Affinity and don`t have PS. Surprise here you are doing Affinity tutorial, great stuff and very informative too, thanks very much for sharing your skill and knowledge. Should say at this point, I am new to processing in Affinity or PS, I`m more familiar with Lightroom, but have found it very limiting on what you can do with it for astro.
Do check out Affinity’s dedicated CZcams videos as their primary tut teacher is an avid astrophotographer and the latest versions of AP have a dedicated astrophotography develop environment.
Hi Stace and great job on this. I am new to this all and have a Vespera from Vaonis. It gives me stacked JPEG's in a TIF file. I bought AP V2 and want to learn. Your video is the easiest I've found. Can you do more?
Stace, M42 often has a blown out core. Is it possible to use the up and down mouse movement to lower the brightness in that region as well?
Doing it that way would select all the highlights in the image I think. You would want to keep it under control the whole way through processing. But I would say it would help!
@@AstroStace I wasn't sure if you could select a specific region or not.
Still, for me, it doesn't matter right now as I'm not even sure when I'll be in a position to start to put my astrophotography rig back together, and replace all the stuff I lost.
I hope you do a follow up to this!
@ 2:16 - I don't have that "sRGB...black scaled" option. What do I need to do to get it?
Love your videos! Could you do this same video on the Affinity photo iPad version. That would be awesome as i only use an ipad. Thanks for awesome videos
"sRGB IEC61966-2.1 blacked scaled" is not an option in my menu. I only get "sRGB IEC61966-2.1". Anyone know why?
WHAT I like very detailed explinations calm and not rushed unlike outher yutube provider vidos TAKE NOTE of how to make a tutorial
Is there any syntetic flat fot affinity?
I need that too for dealing with light pollution.
Thanks, waiting for GIMP version of this tutorial. it’s FREE :)
What you wait for? Just do it. GIMP has levels too. In fact, most Affinity, Photoshot tutorials you can apply on other programs.
They have a half price sale on at the moment
great vid...sound levels keep going up and down but it looks promising software
Hopefully sorted for when I’m well enough to do videos again :) got a better mic
Working through this - new skills - can't find the option for RGB Black Scaled on my software? please help
Did you ever solve this problem? I have no black-scaled option either.
Great but Volume keeps going up and down, Hard to follow!
use layers instead of history if you want to be non-destructive, this is where it's a bit different from photoshop, levels works on 32 bit directly too
Get yourself an affiliate code for this one, because I have a feeling you're gonna be sending quite a few people over for purchases! I'll probably pick up a copy myself and cancel my Adobe CC subscription. That would pay for the cost of this program in 90 days!
What did you use to stack the original image in?
Astro pixel processor :)
@@AstroStace cheered. Know you do lots of videos of which I'm grateful. Very informative. Might you consider doing one from start with APP in Affinity. How to save files. What formats. And all that jazz. Purely bring selfish. Haha. But be really handy for me and probs many other computer illiterate folk. Cheers. Keep up the good work.
I’ll give it a go! I have some data that I can play with and do it :)
@@AstroStace cheers. Confuses me making data in one thing in some format then using it in another.
Glad you did this astrostace. Have you seen this from James Ritson "the face of Affinity" czcams.com/video/kBV6p5T_Xkk/video.html. Starts after 16.20 minutes. He does his processing in 32 bit. Is this an improvement over 16 bit?
Sorry 😂