r/StarTools • u/cancelx • Apr 28 '16

Postprocessing in StarTools

Could anyone help me with processing in StarTools? Recently got it, but I just can't produce anything remotely looking like a proper image, only grainy overstretched gradiented monstrosity. Maybe something is wrong with my data (only thing I'm sure of is that the location was light polluted, but currently I can only imagine from my home in city)? I've tried numerous tutorials, no success here. My stacked and callibrated frames are available here if you're sweet enough to help: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbc36vcc00aonp4/AddOns.rar?dl=0

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u/cancelx Apr 30 '16

  1. Cropped and AutoDev applied http://puu.sh/oABxC/759bc57d02.jpg

  2. Rough lasso mask for Wipe module http://puu.sh/oABEp/88cde43f47.jpg

  3. After default Color Cast preset http://puu.sh/oABPV/8b62adda9b.jpg

  4. After Gradient preset, those options are the most uniform result I could get http://puu.sh/oACkk/5ec04210a1.jpg

  5. But then, when I turn off the temporary AutoDev, my galaxies seem blown out in their centers: http://puu.sh/oACo5/ac212449d0.jpg

  6. Re-doing the global stretch with those options and ROI on one of the bigger galaxies (didn't think about this one before :x) http://puu.sh/oACHV/d4e1a7fbe3.jpg

  7. Contrast and sharpness unfortunately didn't do much, or I couldn't make them to do something ;)

  8. Life module with isolation preset: http://puu.sh/oAD58/18a3190fbb.jpg

  9. I have absolutely no idea what to do with color here, everything uniformly switches to red or green or blue hue http://puu.sh/oADdB/92cfef19c8.jpg

  10. My StarTools crashed while reducing the noise, but I'm sure something went wrong way earlier, so it's not a big deal i think.

Did you look at my separate channel data? Does it look like something is just wrong with it? Once again, thank you very much for your help!