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Critic said my nebula shots had bad star color - now I calibrate everything in Siril first
Someone on here pointed out that all my stars looked the same blue-white and I realized they were right. Now I spend 10 minutes doing photometric color calibration before any stretch. Does anyone else find it makes a bigger difference than the actual nebula processing?
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thomasgonzalez19h ago
Totally agree, proper star color calibration was a game changer for me too. It's wild how much richer the whole image looks once you fix those stars.
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nancy_king2919h ago
Heard Adam Block talk about this on a podcast and it finally clicked for me. He said most processing software just slaps a generic white balance on stars and it kills all the subtle color differences between hot and cool stars. Once I started using a dedicated star mask and adjusting the color curves separately it was like my images went from flat to having actual depth.
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fiona_carr2618h agoTop Commenter
No kidding, @nancy_king29, that's exactly what happened with me too. Once I stopped letting the software decide my star colors and started playing with the curves myself, the whole image popped way more.
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