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PixInsight-Workshop in St. Pölten

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For a long time I have been editing my photos only with PixInsight. The software is enormously extensive and therefore also very complex. Since I have problems from time to time and researching on the internet is not always easy I decided to participate in this workshop. Already on the first day I learned a lot of new things, especially in the area of handling the program. Now I am able to use PixInsight much more efficiently. Also the hint on the first day that one should apply many processing steps (e.g. sharpening) only to the luminance part of the image was new to me. Until now I had always applied everything to the RGB image. On the second day we continued with masks. I had already read a lot about it, but here were some easy to understand methods to create good masks very easily. Next I will edit a few photos I took and I am very excited to see the difference. Now I reworked an image of the Trifid Nebula and applied some of the newly learned steps. On the left side is the old ima...