Astrophotography Editing Tutorial With Affinity Photo

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  • čas přidán 5. 09. 2024

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  • @AstroFarsography
    @AstroFarsography  Před 2 lety +1

    Hey all. I had many messages saying the data link wasn't working. I've since fixed that, so enjoy! Thanks for letting me know!

  • @chrissheppard3178
    @chrissheppard3178 Před 4 lety +5

    Fantastic tutorial on Affinity photo. I'm just starting out editing my astro images on Affinity. Really helpful. Please keep your workflow on editing coming. Great image 👍

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      Thanks Chris glad you enjoyed it. Yeah more coming once I've finished filming them! Many thanks

  • @ChucksAstrophotography
    @ChucksAstrophotography Před 4 lety +2

    Excellent tutorial on software I know very little about.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      Thanks Chuck!
      Yeah newish software for me also but really enjoying it. Might migrate over from Photoshop to Affinity full time I think and save myself some money

    • @fusion-music
      @fusion-music Před 2 měsíci

      Hi Chuck. I use Affinity photo all the time. V2 is even better. It's not subscription based either. I actually use the whole suite for my work. Nice to see you on this channel.

  • @BurgerOosthuizen
    @BurgerOosthuizen Před měsícem +1

    Absolutely fabulous! Thanks.

  • @tamrich7762
    @tamrich7762 Před 4 lety +2

    Excellent tutorial Ruzeen! Easy to follow thanks for sharing.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      Thanks very much Tam. Good to hear it was easy to follow. That's always a concern for me!

  • @lotharen
    @lotharen Před rokem +1

    OMG! This video has helped me understand a bit more about what I am doing with stretching. It would be wonderful if you could make more videos like this to help newbies like myself understand what they are doing in Affinity Photo. You could even tailor the image to be something a beginner might try. Heck I am trying to process an image I took with my Galaxy Z Flip 3 and this video has helped me bring out detail I didn't know was there. No nebula or galaxies unfortunately but the stars are there. Anyway, keep up the amazing work and I hope to see more.

  • @billblanshan3021
    @billblanshan3021 Před 4 lety +1

    Using the "picker" tool on curves also is a great option to use, allows to pick and stretch specific areas on your image

    • @marcovortexbohler
      @marcovortexbohler Před 3 lety

      Could you elaborate a little bit? I tried that just now and it only changes color (with the picker tool on)

  • @Cheshire090
    @Cheshire090 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks legend. I'm a total noob and was struggling with colour balance and isolating areas to adjust, instead of blowing out the whole image. It would be great to see you do the same thing for different targets like galaxies, clusters etc. if you get round to it.

  • @timburgess1528
    @timburgess1528 Před rokem

    thank you so much. I have just purchased Affinity Photo and have big learning curve for editing astro images, I am not yet familiar at all with the techniques and layers etc, so this is VERY helpful and thank you so much for the time you put into this.

  • @ReubenMRU
    @ReubenMRU Před rokem

    Brilliantly detailed! I usually edit with other software(not photoshop), but since I have affinity as well, i'm thinking i should try editing with it... Thanks for this in-depth tutorial! Much appreciated! I definitely do not do all of this when I edit - learned so many things here! You deserve so much more subscribers! This was very well explained!

  • @mattgreen9712
    @mattgreen9712 Před rokem +1

    By far the best guide I have come across. Thanks for that 👍

  • @badastro9533
    @badastro9533 Před 4 lety

    THIS IS EXCELLENT!!! Thank you for this walk through. I have been struggling to find helpful material for Affinity. This is awesome and I highly recommend this watch for anyone thinking of moving from Light Room to Affinity. If your new to Astro Image editing look at this before you start paying for a subscription services! Thanks for the contribution, it’s great! I’m looking forward to the rest of this series!

  • @mikecmp
    @mikecmp Před 4 lety +2

    Thanks for this, excellent video, delighted to see you use Affinity since it’s reasonably priced. I tried but could not figure out how to edit my photos, but this video laid everything out in a very easy to understand way.
    Also, your demonstration of curves really made it click for me for some reason, really appreciate you showing every step.
    Looking forward to more from you and thanks again!
    Mike

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +2

      Thanks Mike. Glad it was helpful
      Yeah I'm finding Affinity very agreeable. Really enjoying the UI and the user experience and such
      That's also great to hear about the curves explanation 😃 it's always good knowing I've explained something clearly, sometimes I agonise over if it's easy to follow 😂
      Many thanks Mike

  • @JoernR
    @JoernR Před 3 lety

    Thank you VERY much! I never thought of the info panel for color balancing.
    (And I never thought of some other things I just learned. :))
    It's also really beneficial that you commented each and every step in detail instead of just doing it, leaving the viewer guessing why.
    That's the way subscribers are made. :D

  • @mikecmp
    @mikecmp Před 4 lety +4

    As a request, would be interesting to see how to remove gradients. Thanks again!
    Mike

  • @DougieMcGibbon
    @DougieMcGibbon Před 6 měsíci +1

    Fantastic guide as an intro to Affinity!

  • @skyhookbix
    @skyhookbix Před 3 lety

    Thank you so much, i have been trying to watch photoshop tutorials and apply them to Affinity, this helps so much.

  • @jitendrakatre5986
    @jitendrakatre5986 Před 2 lety

    Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

  • @donr6234
    @donr6234 Před 4 lety +1

    Watched it again, you lost me at Feather, I think keyboard shortcuts get me lost too. I'll wait for a DSLR only tutorial, lol... Thanks again!

  • @Crozb07
    @Crozb07 Před 3 lety

    This is a very detailed look at how to process in Affinity. I usually process in other tools first. I’ve been using startools or APP. It would be interesting to see a video on how to finish off a picture in Affinity once it’s been processed in one of these tools. Thanks for your hard work!

  • @Johnnyboy_584
    @Johnnyboy_584 Před 3 lety +1

    Great video! Very comprehensive. Thanks for sheding some light on the process for me. I will have to warch it several time, but it is good stuff! Have you published the one on reducing stars yet, haven't seen it. Take care and thanks for sharing.

  • @flexable9256
    @flexable9256 Před 3 lety

    Excellent! Just what I needed to understand how to use AF for astrophoto. Thanks.

  • @padraigfarrell7150
    @padraigfarrell7150 Před 3 lety

    That's one of the best tutorials I've came across, wonder would it work on galaxies ? Going to give it go ! Thanks so much for sharing.

  • @christopherlearwood4763

    Excellent there's a lot of stuff here that I didn't know when using Photoshop, a Video explaining about why you use these layers choices and channels etc would be good theory etc as I often miss what it is that the software see's that we don't Great work

  • @Btech4401
    @Btech4401 Před 3 lety

    Great tutorial. Some really powerful editing techniques shown here. Thank you for sharing.

  • @gnashermedia
    @gnashermedia Před 4 lety +1

    That's a great tutorial. I'm also using affinity. And I'm really interested in more stuff like this.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +1

      Thanks very much. Yeah Affinity is really good. More to come :)

    • @gnashermedia
      @gnashermedia Před 4 lety

      @@AstroFarsography This would be soooooo good. Until now there are mainly Photoshop tutorials. I don't like the abo model for Photoshop.

  • @TheFlyingScotsmanTV
    @TheFlyingScotsmanTV Před 3 lety

    excellent. best tutorial I've seen in ages

  • @nxu5107
    @nxu5107 Před 3 lety

    Thanks. What an excellent video. So good. I’ll have some questions later. I’ve had affinity almost from the day they started selling it and now a tutorial that makes the investment worthwhile.

  • @davemoss6743
    @davemoss6743 Před 3 lety

    Great video. Exactly what I've been looking for. Well done!

  • @salvadorjimenez1344
    @salvadorjimenez1344 Před 4 lety

    Thank you for your contribution to astrophotography, great great tutorial with Affinity

  • @Ziogeppo00
    @Ziogeppo00 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for considering Affinity. In your previous video, same pic but with photoshop I had to map everything from Ps to AP... not impossible but boring. Nice video!

  • @ryanq8316
    @ryanq8316 Před 2 lety

    Hi Ruzeen. Love your videos and this one was no different, they've really helped me progress with my editing! My brother pointed me towards Affinity and seeing how reasonably priced it is, I'm really starting to get on with it - with some guidance from your tutorials of course. The one thing I'm still really struggling with however, are masks... would love to see a tutorial on this and how to do them properly - ideally with Affinity, but generally just an idiots guide!

  • @Swaggerlot
    @Swaggerlot Před 3 lety

    No question about the depth!

  • @daverumball3612
    @daverumball3612 Před 4 lety

    I found this very useful. It is well done and each step is clearly explained. I use a mirrorless camera/lens for my astrophotography and also access to Fits and PNG data from telescopes in Chile and Tenerife. I will have to watch again to fully understand your process as there are some steps I have not used before. Thank you and I look forward to the next in this series. Could you at some point cover how to add luminance data to a processed image as I cannot find anything on this?

  • @miketronix
    @miketronix Před 2 lety

    Amazing tutorial as Always!

  • @sirflor
    @sirflor Před 3 lety

    Just a well done step-by-step Tutorial. Thanks for that.
    I will try this with my own shots.
    Have you done a similar video for a milkyway photo?

  • @cindymathe2519
    @cindymathe2519 Před 3 lety

    Love the Video! I was wondering if you could do the same tutorial but the ipad version. Of Affinity Photo. I only use iPad version for lack of laptop or desktop. Ive asked Affinity photo the same but to my knowledge they are slow to add Astro features or at least a full tutorial. I would be very grateful indeed if you would!

  • @claudiotenreiro3111
    @claudiotenreiro3111 Před 4 lety

    Excellent, very clear as the tutorial using GIMP. I wonder if you are going to produce one on how to process an object like a stars cluster, hopefully in GIMP. Cheers.

  • @KJRitch
    @KJRitch Před 2 měsíci +1

    Trying to use this video to learn Affinity Phots 2.5.2. I'm trying to edit a galaxy and when I get to the part to Select Sampled Color I'm not seeing marching ants anywhere around the galaxy, just a dotted line around the image not matter what I select in the image. Guess I'm going to have to use Starnet++. But I learned a lot about using Levels to adjust color and the Threshold tool. It's too bad this channel seems to be abandoned.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 2 měsíci

      It will depend on the colour difference in the galaxy itself to the background tool. The select sampled colour will be dependant on that. If the whole image has an overall green or blue colour cast, these tools can struggle
      It's not abandoned, I won't abandon it. I just have had some issues in life that I've had to deal with. I hope to be back to creating regular content soon

  • @CapitaineNautilus
    @CapitaineNautilus Před 3 lety

    Excellent tutorial. Thanks a lot!

  • @martrich1098
    @martrich1098 Před 3 lety

    Brilliant stuff - I've just followed your tutorial and learnt more than I had with others. How about something on gradient removal? Thanks :)

  • @PaweChyl
    @PaweChyl Před 4 lety

    This video made me subscribe! Great job thank you!

  • @Conorkc86
    @Conorkc86 Před 4 lety

    Fantastic Tutorial!

  • @ernestomantegazza7466
    @ernestomantegazza7466 Před rokem +1

    Great ! But I'm stil unclear what is the original photo format load , RAW, JPG, FIT, TIF ?

  • @randomastrodude9255
    @randomastrodude9255 Před 4 lety +1

    can you make a video that explains types of cable for the mounts and the telescopes and also cameras.

  • @Johnnyboy_584
    @Johnnyboy_584 Před 4 lety

    Thanks for your tutorial!

  • @lordofming
    @lordofming Před 4 lety +1

    I cannot find the star reduction tutorial in details for affinity photo :(

  • @ryanhogg6556
    @ryanhogg6556 Před 4 lety

    Nice work mate

  • @Mistr_A
    @Mistr_A Před 4 lety +1

    Great video, if you had to choose would you use Photoshop or Affinity?

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      Thank you Nick
      If I can find a substitute for Camera Raw from Photoshop in Affinity then I'd drop PS and move straight to Affinity. I'll carry on using Affinity but j can see myself transitioning. I prefer it and I think the UI and response rate is nicer

  • @nerrelloader4226
    @nerrelloader4226 Před 4 lety +1

    Hi AstroFarsography, in my image of the milky way taken on a 6 year old DSLR, one can already see the milky way, and some stars, but as we are told to shoot using 3200 ISO the image has that grey appearance. Which is not the same as your total black starting point. I know in your tutorial you say if you are using a DSLR start with the Threshold at a certain point, but my question is for my image is the process exactly the same as what you've done from 'start at the certain point'? Does that make sense? TIA if you are free to reply.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +1

      Hey there Nerrel.
      So yes, with a DSLR the camera does a small degree of processing inside of it already. That's why the black point is different.
      What you see out of stacking, or even in your single subs, should be similar or near to the 'start at that point' comment'. From there you can still use thresholds and curves etc, you just don't need to do initial curve stretches to make the data visible :)
      Hope that helps!

    • @nerrelloader4226
      @nerrelloader4226 Před 4 lety

      @@AstroFarsography Thanks so much. I actually didn't do any stacking. Just took one photo. Does that change my processing? Sorry, I am really new to this.

    • @fusion-music
      @fusion-music Před 2 měsíci

      It's quite okay to take a single shot of the Milky way and process it. But, it's s an advantage to take many shots and "Stack" them. The software to stack the images is free. You then take the stacked image into a photo editor like Affinity Photo and follow the processing as outlined. "Stacking" helps get more data and also helps get rid of noise.
      Take the whole process of learning slow.
      So whether or not you stack, it doesn't change the process. You can stack in Affinity, but I didn't get as good results and I haven't tried it with V2 Affinity Photo. So, I think I'm at the stage of trying to work it out again.
      Best comment I ever heard is that "astronomy is a slow process." Don't be in a rush to get results. Keep reading.

  • @billblanshan3021
    @billblanshan3021 Před 4 lety +1

    Very good tutorial! Love this software, inexpensive and very capable, especially when using it with plugins like Topaz DeNoise. Question. Did you have to convert your Tiff to a 16bit black scaled tif? Astrostace did this in her video and I can do the same when using APP as my stacking software, but when using DSS for stacking, Affinity Photo does not give me the option to convert to a black scaled image, probably something to do with DSS and how it saves. Not sure if it matters but I did notice some stretching issues not in a black scaled mode. Curious to know your thoughts on this

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      Thanks Bill
      This image didn't need converting as it was saved through APP as a 16/bit TIFF. Even my DSS files are saved automatically as 16/Tiff
      In DSS when you press save to file, you want to click the drop down box below file name and select 16/bit TIFF Integer and save it like that. And it should be fine from there :)

  • @Greg-jw2dp
    @Greg-jw2dp Před 4 lety

    Great video. Thanks for putting in the time to make it. I keep hearing about Luminar 4 and was wondering what your opinions were. Is it comparable to this program or Photoshop? I still really struggle with editing and an looking for something very inuitive. 😂

  • @g4eqz
    @g4eqz Před 4 lety

    Great video Ruzeen, downloaded, and worked thru your tif file. Looking to cancel my Photoshop subscription as I don't think the difference between PS and AP is worth 10 quid a month. I normally use Pixinsight for the main part of my processing but give the extra tweaks etc in PS which is much easier to drive than PI :) Do you find you can get images to the same standard in Affinity as you could in Photoshop?

  • @harryiii3361
    @harryiii3361 Před rokem

    does anyone know why the colour sampler information changes based on whether im zoomed in or out of the image? for some reason when i zoom in to find the centre of my white point and then make a curve adjustment to get the right intensity, it will change by about 8 points when i zoom back out to view my picture in full view

  • @strelnikoff7
    @strelnikoff7 Před 4 lety +2

    You know which question is coming 😄 vs. Photoshop?

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +1

      Haha yep was expecting this. I'd move to Affinity I think but Photoshops Camera Raw feature really keeps me there. If I can find something similar or alternative in Affinity then I'd migrate fullyn

    • @gnashermedia
      @gnashermedia Před 4 lety +1

      @@AstroFarsography Affinity has a develop mode. You can find it in the top left - there a buttons for raw development, image manipulation, tone mapping and liqufy. And as alternative there is also rawtherapy . I use rawtherapy for the start processing like vignetting, exposure correction, white balance etc. You can also copy/paste the settings from one picture to others and batch process them.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      @@gnashermedia well well this is extremely good to know. I'll look into that for sure then. If that does the same as Camera Raw then dang I don't see what's keeping me with Photoshop. Select and Mask, maybe 🤔 but is that one tool worth the price 😂

    • @gnashermedia
      @gnashermedia Před 4 lety

      @@AstroFarsography I don't know this PS Feature as I don't have PS. But maybe this tutorial is a possible way to have a similar function in Affinity Photo: czcams.com/video/uPTpELVAh88/video.html

  • @UV-NIR-Thermal
    @UV-NIR-Thermal Před 4 lety

    Interesting. On the star reduction, when I do the filter and blur, mine is bluring the unselected area, what am I doing wrong? I'm in need of your other one you mentioned you're going to upload. Thanks

  • @mikecmp
    @mikecmp Před 4 lety

    I also. It iced we have similar equipment from a mount and guide perspective, but I did. It see you mention the acquisition camera or integration time for this stack. Could you provide that info please just for reference?
    Thanks in advance!
    Mike

  • @donr6234
    @donr6234 Před 4 lety

    Watch number 2 👍 I'm not done yet either, lol.

  • @esbenhoffmann5421
    @esbenhoffmann5421 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for your great video.
    I would love to hear about your finished picture.
    Is it made from the file you share?
    It is only 39mb.
    greetings from Esben in Denmark

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +1

      Hell Esben thanks for the comment about my video :)
      The image you can download may have less total data stacked, I can't remember. I'll double check this evening!

  • @lindabilleskerkoster5521

    I can't seem to find "sample by location" that you use in the beginning thresholding. I'm on 1.10.5. Can you help?

  • @davevachon9268
    @davevachon9268 Před 4 lety

    Great video! What imaging camera did you use for this shot?

  • @pilsyppah
    @pilsyppah Před 4 lety +1

    You do know that when you change your pixel dimensions, whatever number you type in the resolution field is not going to "keep a bit of resolution", right?

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +1

      Hmm. I thought increasing the DPI was akin to keeping a bit of resolution. Maybe I used the wrong term there - do you know what that actually is so I can learn from it please?

    • @pilsyppah
      @pilsyppah Před 4 lety

      @@AstroFarsography ​ When you decrease pixel dimensions, you lose image data. Resolution is a term that can only be used in connection with physical dimensions, hence the unit dpi (or ppi) dots (or pixels) per inch. The resolution field in any image editing program sets the phisical size of the image. ie.: your roughly 7600px x 5100px image would be 76"x51" at 100 dpi, your 2500px x 1600px image will only be 25"x16". If you drop the resolution of this 2500x1600 image to 50dpi, your physical dimensions will be 50"x32" or if you increase the resolution to 200dpi, then the dimensions will drop to 12.5" x 8", but your image data remains exactly the same.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety

      @@pilsyppah right that clears a few things up for me thanks. So really for resizing the image for performance purposes going from 72 to 100dpi really didn't do much as I just ended up making the image bigger again and what not. But since I made the resolution smaller I still removed information and lost details then?

  • @donr6234
    @donr6234 Před 4 lety +1

    Great tutorial, do you know if GIMP can do the same as Affinity? Thanks!

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před 4 lety +1

      Thanks Don. It so happens I have a Gimp editing tutorial as well on my channel. It's from last year but feel free to go check that out too and you can see for yourself.
      I find Gimp surprisingly capable though but it has its limitations to be expected from free software
      I also gave more Gimp tutorials planned for release this month too

    • @donr6234
      @donr6234 Před 4 lety

      @@AstroFarsography Thank you! I will definitly check that out along with the rest of your tutorials. Much appreciated...

    • @donr6234
      @donr6234 Před 4 lety

      @@AstroFarsography Question on Affinity Photo, would I have to buy anything else to make the program work for my laptop? I see it's only $50, I can manage that if it's all I need. Thanks, Ruz!

  • @Earthling-it6ng
    @Earthling-it6ng Před rokem

    Tried to follow every step (Nikon DSLR used) and, while it is English to you, it's Chinese to me and my levels adjustments for the colours simply on't even move the numbers on the info section. I was even in trouble before that point with trying to figure out why you do threshold and then just trash them plus when I sample the white portion of the stars, the figure is 255 and I don't know how to reduce. Again, you know what you're doing and why, but, my trying to emulate - not understanding very subtle points it seems - just doesn't work.

    • @fusion-music
      @fusion-music Před 2 měsíci

      This is a marvelous tutorial, but also very complex for beginners. Numbers '0' & '255' have lost all detail. You cannot recover from there. Well, that's the theory. Your. Numbers ideally are between 1 - 254.
      Just try to learn some of the techniques and adjustments. Then build on your knowledge. I would say it's impossible to replicate this image trying to copy the method. But you can learn a lot.
      If we are tired when we edit asto photos, we likely will do things a lot differently - & possibly not like the results.
      For myself, I want to go back to old data images of mine and try to apply this method, because I know my method was not like this.
      Be patient- enjoy learning, because you will never stop.

  • @clemasity
    @clemasity Před 2 lety

    It doesn't work in my Affinity Photo.

  • @ranman5283
    @ranman5283 Před měsícem

    Stuck at the beginning click view and there is no studio setting 😭

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před měsícem

      Hi mate,
      I just updated my Affinity to the most recent and I still can see the View in the top bar and studio settings. I've had a quick look and really the only recommendations I can give you without seeing your PC is to either uninstall & reinstall Affinity, or to hold control and double click the Affinity icon which should (apparently) reset Affinity back to default.
      If that doesn't work feel free to email me a screenshot of your Affinity Photo so I can try and help you further at astrofarsography@gmail.com
      Good luck!

    • @ranman5283
      @ranman5283 Před měsícem

      @@AstroFarsography Thankyou for replying. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it was the same, I reset to default and the same. Kept looking around and found the studio sitting in the window tab. Strange but now I can follow your tutorial. Thankyou very much and subbed.

    • @AstroFarsography
      @AstroFarsography  Před měsícem

      @ranman5283 that definitely is strange but good job finding it mate. Hope you find the tutorial useful, and thank you for the subscription!