Prom: ASI174MM, prom quark & SW Evostar 80

[nicspenceryork]

Okay, watch this space then, I’ll do a short video specifically on the colour composite part of the processing in the next couple of days! ☀️🟠🔵
Nic

[Montana]

This really is a fab image Nic

I did a blue sky once in the past but I have absolutely no idea how I did it I look forward to the tutorial

Alexandra

[nicspenceryork]

For your amusement, my first ever YouTube video showing how I did the composite colour image.
Beginners, it's a great base to work from.
Experts, you'll cringe with where I go wrong but do tell me so I can improve!!
Enjoy,
Nic

[marios i.]

Geia sou Nic,
you caught the texture very nicely. Incredible combination of colors. Excellent Work!

I will buy a camera!

[JochenM]

Very nice, Nic.

[daniele_bonfiglio]

Dear Nic,
thank you very much for the nice picture and for the tutorial!
Let me share my experience with dealing with two colours. In the attached screenshot you see a Photoshop window, where I make an orange disc (including orange proms) on top of a light blue sky background.
Basically I duplicate the image (already modified with ImPPG) and use one layer as the background by Gaussian blurring the disc, putting a layer mask in correspondence to the limb, and using the "screen" blending mode. The other layer is a standard false colored Sun with black background.
I'm pretty sure the same result could be obtained with GIMP as well.
Best, Daniele

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[torsinadoc]

Nice tutorial! Thanks for sharing

[Montana]

Nic, can you put this in a separate topic then I will put in the library

Alexandra

[nicspenceryork]

Nic, can you put this in a separate topic then I will put in the library :)

Alexandra

Done!
Thank you,
Nic

[tbob]

Hello, I am new to this and was searching the site for tutorials. It looks as though the video from Nic has disappeared from the thread. Is it still available somewhere?

Thanks,
Bob T.

[Montana]

The link to this is also in the Solar Reference Library where there are lots of tutorials available viewtopic.php?t=36650
However, it looks like Nic has removed the video from YouTube

Alexandra

[nicspenceryork]

So sorry for the inconvenience of removing the video Bob. For some reason I couldn’t find this original post on solarchat either so was unable to delete it, hence this situation, sorry!
When I finally got my head around processing and equipment I realised that the video was misleading in parts, and in addition to being cringeworthy and too long, I decided the best thing for it was the bin! A good chunk of my learning was based on these two YouTube videos, trial and error and 100% determination! Now I’ve learned to process I use the tricks learned to present the more natural, positive (non inverted sun) which is very much more my preference.
Do get in touch if I can help with anything after you have seen the videos.
Good luck with it,
Nic

https://youtu.be/-zD4EIGBess?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/G-41RMTCdTE?feature=shared