M20 from 2013 tarted up

[Carole]

This is my original image from Les Granges in August 2013


Having learnt a few more processing techniques, I have tweaked it a bit. 

[MarkS]

I like the improved processing!

Mark

[Fay]

Well tarted up Carole! 

[JohnP]

umm not so sure - actually think i prefer orig. Agreed background looks better in reprocessed but stars look too small/ vanished & also they all look like blue points.. kinda looks a bit over processed to me. Still a great image though - John

[Carole]

Thanks Mark and Fay.

It was a technique that Olly showed me John, as many people find too many stars and big stars overpowering and distracting from the nebula. 

Looking at some of the smaller stars in the original process there seems to be some "star-eating going on", so if I can find the original subs, maybe I should re-process using Astroart and see if it comes up better, these are probably the stars you are referring to.

Carole

[Carole]

if I can find the original subs

Can't find them.  I usually do keep them for a long time, but can't find these ones.

Carole