Cameran Ashraf 5-18-06

 

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Here’s the basic walkthrough:

  1. Aligned everything with Registax (usually stack 100 frames, resample with Mitchell at 1.5), no wavelets- save as 16 bit TIFF.
  2. Open ImagesPlus

 

  1. Go to Restoration > Iterative Restoration > Adaptive Lucy-Richardson
    1. Everything as default, 20 iterations
    2. Save as 8 bits TIFF
  2. Open Photoshop
    1. Open your image
    2. Crop the area you want
    3. Once you’ve cropped, go to Layer > duplicate layer

 

    1. Then go to Image>adjustments>invert

 

    1. Then go to the layers box and select “difference” as the blend mode

 

    1. Then go to layer > flatten image
    2. Ok now create another layer (layer>duplicate layer)
    3. Then go to filter>other>high pass
    4. Set the radius to something like between 5-7
    5. Then go to the layers box and select “soft light”

 

    1. Layer>flatten image again
    2. Layer >duplicate layer again
    3. Filter>other>high pass set it to around 3 then in the layer box set the opacity to about 85% and the blend to soft light
    4. Layer>flatten image
    5. One last time layer >duplicate layer
    6. Filter >other> high pass and set it to 1.0 and in the layer box do vivid light, opacity at around 50%
    7. Layer >flatten image again
    8. Should have something like this:

 

 

  1. So you went from this:

 

 

 

To this:

 

 

  1. After colorizing using Image > Adjustments > Color Balance:

 

Please remember: The numbers I've used are a guide - try your own and experiment! Everyone has their vision of what the sun should look like, so have fun and keep trying new techniques!

This method is a collection of various solar and lunar processing methods I picked up.  Thanks to Hiram Villarreal and Tony Gondola for the inspiration for these techniques.

 

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