Honestly, I used Photoshop for a long time and struggled to get good results. Pixinsight changed that just by following along with some basic tutorials. It does look intimidating, but it actually isn't. I don't want to say pixinsight is easy, but it's easier than Photoshop to me.
Thanks so much for doing this video. I am new to PixInsight and this was super helpful. Great job. I shoot with a OSC camera (sometimes with an L-Extreme filter for nebulas) and would love to see a tutorial on processing narrowband OSC with PixInsight . Once again, great tutorial. Dr B from Manitoba, Canada.
Kyle, am I wrong in noticing that the processes you've chosen seem to vary from those "most" other Pixinsight tutorials emphasize? Usually, we're directed to either Photometric Color Calibration or manual Color Calibration to fix the off colors or to bring out missing colors in our images. But you use the RGB Split>Linear Fit>Channel Combination, the ArcSinStretch (to increase contrast), and the very interesting Extract CIE L>LRGB Combination. Interestingly, when I compared the overall color of my recent M31 project using the "standard" PCC processes with your workflow, your processes actually yielded more color, especially in the dust lanes of M31. Can you explain why this is so? Thanks for your work and for any clarification.
Great Job, much appreciated! In the Step regarding EZ denoise the chosen (DBE) image isn't linear, therefore the script will not Execute. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to convert it to linear, and if so; how? Edit: found that I needed to select something else in the second tab, after that I could use it. Subsequently it crashed my computer (The dreaded BSOD) and after reboot the EZ suite never came back in Pixinsight. I think I'll leave it at that and sort the denoising out a different way ;-)
Let us know if you can't figure it out! If you don't like EZ Denoise, we'd recommend trying multiscale linear transform before turning the image non-linear.
Hello Kyle, quick question about the 2nd image. When you did the LinearFitat 26.30 why did you choose the green channel as a reference although the image looked yellowish/brownish? I saw others use automatic background extraction to remove the overall image tint resulting from filters. What do you think?
@@highpointscientific So will using automatic background extraction give the same result? what about other images those don't have green tint? like for example I have a stacked image of m42 which has light brown tint what method should I do to deal with the color? Many thanks to you!
Great video for someone new to processing. So far so good. But when I get to Step 12 of the PDF using the Screen Transfer Function tool and the Histogram Transformation tool, dragging the arrow from the SCT to the Histogram Transformation does not open the Histogram to be applied. Nothing happens. I drag the arrow as you do but nothing appears in the window. What am I doing wrong?
Good question. Make sure you've selected the image you wish to be stretched in the drop down menu & drag the arrow to the bottom of the HistogramTransform tool. You'll know your image has been successfully stretched when you see the histogram transform. If this doesn't work, try using EZProcessingSuite's EZ Soft Stretch tool. That should do the job nicely.
Hi, I'm really enjoying this tutorial. I'm very new to PI and running into an error with DBE: "DynamicBackgroundExtraction: Cannot execute instance on view: Image05 Reason: This DynamicBackgroundExtraction instance has less than three background samples defined." I'm working on an unedited TIFF exported from Lightroom Classic. I've re-started the process 3 times now and every time I get this error. Ideas?
This is a great basic intro to PixInsight - thank you!
Thanks for making PixInsight approachable!
One of the best tutorials on PI I've seen.
Best Pixinsight beginners tutorial on CZcams. Many thanks
Wow, thanks!
Any chance of more Pixinsight tutorials please?
Great tutorial! Going through the 3 examples, helped to reinforce the learning a lot. Awesome job.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks to your team for this. The PDF was really helpful to follow along with!
You're welcome! Clear skies!
Honestly, I used Photoshop for a long time and struggled to get good results. Pixinsight changed that just by following along with some basic tutorials. It does look intimidating, but it actually isn't. I don't want to say pixinsight is easy, but it's easier than Photoshop to me.
Thanks so much for doing this video. I am new to PixInsight and this was super helpful. Great job. I shoot with a OSC camera (sometimes with an L-Extreme filter for nebulas) and would love to see a tutorial on processing narrowband OSC with PixInsight . Once again, great tutorial. Dr B from Manitoba, Canada.
Thanks for this! This has really helped me get a solid workflow in Pixinsight going.
You're very welcome! Clear skies!
Kyle, thanks man for one of the most helpful tutorials on beginning Pixinsight!!!!!! Again thanks!!!!
Happy to help!
Thank you for the video. If you take requests, I would like to see your take on some SHO combination and processing.
We'd definitely be interested. We were considering something like this or how to add Ha data to RGB images.
A well explained tutorial Kyle using the three examples.
Thank you!
Absolutely great video. I'm making the jump to Pixinsight (and doing M13 lol) and this is perfect.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. Very useful. Thanks.
Everything HPS does is great! Love this company.
Thank you!
Many thanks, very good tutorial.
You are welcome!
This is really cool. I could not however get to run EZ Denoise. The option is simply greyed out after I selected the image.
Kyle, am I wrong in noticing that the processes you've chosen seem to vary from those "most" other Pixinsight tutorials emphasize? Usually, we're directed to either Photometric Color Calibration or manual Color Calibration to fix the off colors or to bring out missing colors in our images. But you use the RGB Split>Linear Fit>Channel Combination, the ArcSinStretch (to increase contrast), and the very interesting Extract CIE L>LRGB Combination. Interestingly, when I compared the overall color of my recent M31 project using the "standard" PCC processes with your workflow, your processes actually yielded more color, especially in the dust lanes of M31. Can you explain why this is so? Thanks for your work and for any clarification.
This is a superb tutorial! Definitely helped give me some great ideas for my own processing steps and clarified on some confusion I had
You're very welcome!
great, keep it up, thanks Kyle
You bet!
Great Job, much appreciated! In the Step regarding EZ denoise the chosen (DBE) image isn't linear, therefore the script will not Execute. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to convert it to linear, and if so; how? Edit: found that I needed to select something else in the second tab, after that I could use it. Subsequently it crashed my computer (The dreaded BSOD) and after reboot the EZ suite never came back in Pixinsight. I think I'll leave it at that and sort the denoising out a different way ;-)
Let us know if you can't figure it out! If you don't like EZ Denoise, we'd recommend trying multiscale linear transform before turning the image non-linear.
Hello Kyle, quick question about the 2nd image. When you did the LinearFitat 26.30 why did you choose the green channel as a reference although the image looked yellowish/brownish? I saw others use automatic background extraction to remove the overall image tint resulting from filters. What do you think?
Good question. I used the green channel because I saw that the background had a high green tint. SCNR can also knock out the green too. - Kyle
@@highpointscientific So will using automatic background extraction give the same result? what about other images those don't have green tint? like for example I have a stacked image of m42 which has light brown tint what method should I do to deal with the color?
Many thanks to you!
how do you open/put my already stored pics?
🙃
Great video for someone new to processing. So far so good. But when I get to Step 12 of the PDF using the Screen Transfer Function tool and the Histogram Transformation tool, dragging the arrow from the SCT to the Histogram Transformation does not open the Histogram to be applied. Nothing happens. I drag the arrow as you do but nothing appears in the window. What am I doing wrong?
Good question. Make sure you've selected the image you wish to be stretched in the drop down menu & drag the arrow to the bottom of the HistogramTransform tool. You'll know your image has been successfully stretched when you see the histogram transform. If this doesn't work, try using EZProcessingSuite's EZ Soft Stretch tool. That should do the job nicely.
@@highpointscientific Thanks, The EZ Soft Stretch seemed to work. I could not get the Histogram Transformation to work. Still don't know why.
@@robertmyers4964 Thanks, we're glad you were able to get it to work!
Hi, I'm really enjoying this tutorial. I'm very new to PI and running into an error with DBE: "DynamicBackgroundExtraction: Cannot execute instance on view: Image05 Reason: This DynamicBackgroundExtraction instance has less than three background samples defined." I'm working on an unedited TIFF exported from Lightroom Classic. I've re-started the process 3 times now and every time I get this error. Ideas?
You need to create at least 3 samples
yea, is not coma, is regular astigmatism
HI! i could't run EZ Denoise because the image is not stretched (image is linear), what im doing wrong?
So, why do we stack in Deep Sky Stacker (a Windows only tool) instead of doing that in PixInsight as well? It's got that capability, right?
That is correct! You can stack in PixInsight. DeepSkyStacker is just a little more user friendly for a beginner, in our opinion.
I can’t find where to download the EZ Processing Suite
Here you go! darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
Let people know from the start that all of these examples are color images.
Fair enough!