Noel Carboni Photoshop actions

I downloaded a copy of the above PS actions to give them a try. There are some quite useful items to help refine an astrophoto such as reducing star sizes, reducing colour noise, local contrast improvement, removing blue/ violet rings around stars and light pollution removal. Worth the €15 Euro it cost for a copy of the program. It simply extends the action list in Photoshop and is simple to use.

Here is an example of a shot I posted recently. Its a stack of 20 second frames from a Canon 450D at ISO 800. It is a bit noisy.

www.flickr.com/photos/7703127@N07/15439915834/in/photostream/

I now applied the NC actions on the same photo.

www.flickr.com/photos/7703127@N07/15522658964/

A noticeable improvement (I hope you will agree) for a shot taken on a static camera tripod without guiding.

I have these also. make a massive difference

He is another example of using the NC actions. It brings out much more contrast

www.flickr.com/photos/7703127@N07/16129566306/in/photostream/

I need new data to process as I am flogging my old images to death

Me too, what a difference thy make !

Lovely shots John!

Keith..

I have the tools also, but I hardly ever use them, I sometimes find that it "Overshoots the runway" so to speak, the only one of the tools I use often is the Local Contrast Enhancement fur Dust lanes and Nebulae, other than that I do all the processing manually