Someone told me I was overprocessing my astro photos and they were right

Was going through my old shots from last summer, the ones of Andromeda and the Milky Way. I always went heavy on the saturation and sharpening, thought that's what made them pop. Then a guy on here commented on one of my posts, said my stars looked like they were bleeding into the background. He sent me a link to a tutorial about keeping the processing subtle, just pulling out the natural colors. Tried it on a fresh stack of Orion nebula data I had sitting around. Cut the sharpening by half, barely touched the vibrance. First time I looked at the result and it actually looked like space, not a cartoon. Made me rethink every edit I did for the last year. Has anyone else had to unlearn bad habits from watching too many YT tutorials?

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joseph_martinez351d ago

Guilty, I used to crank clarity till my galaxies looked like they had acne.

the_abby1d ago

Oh, I've been there! Took me ages to learn that less is more with those sliders.