Need help in processing milky way photo

[Chintan_Gohel]

@houz

All I can tell you right now is that 2.4.0 will have Windows support and that I am pushing for a release this autumn. We might be able to have a development release (kind of a preview) earlier but there won’t be any promises.

I would appreciate that very much if darktable was to be released for windows. And by Autumn you mean which month? We don’t have seasons here in Kenya . Though this would be my third raw editing software that I would be trying

[Chintan_Gohel]

@Jonas_Wagner

But as soon as heavy noise reduction & complex editing is required it doesn’t work for me. Because of the lack of previews of the noise reduction (when zoomed out) the wysiwyg nature completely breaks down and everything turns into a giant guessing game (unless there is a way to force full previews which I don’t know about?). The lack of masking/local edits is also a serious restriction when edition such photos. I generally want to bring out the color and detail of the milky way a bit more, what I don’t want is to magnify all of the noise in the image with it.

I think you’re right about the limitations of RT in noise reduction - I’ve noticed it myself

but I have a question, you menti0oned masking/local edits. I don’t know what masking is but if I understand local edit correctly, you edited part of the photo and not the whole of it? Possible the milky way region?

If that was the case, how would I apply local edits on the milky way across 300 photos when the milky way keeps moving in every photo? This is for a timelapse

[Chintan_Gohel]

To everyone who has responded, I’ve tried those edits that I could in RT and I tried my own. I really appreciate what everyone has done so far

I would like to point out something that I hadn’t made clear. I’m very new to editing photos. I’ve never learned any kind of editing from any class or tutorial before so the few types of editing that I’ve been doing are the basic ones like blackpoint adjustment, exposure, white balance etc. But I really have no idea what I’m doing. All my photography friends use lightroom which I can’t afford and hence why I have gone to other options like Affinity Photo and Rawtherapee

I would be willing to try any number of raw editors as long as I can understand what and why I am editing something in a photo. If I am using wavelets, I need to understand what they are. If I’m using masking, I need to understand that as well. And know when to use them and where. There are hundreds of tutorials on lightroom but I don’t know if there are any about RT or DT

Is there a guide or tutorial series about editing? I asked this question in the affinity photo forums and didn’t get any good response. Maybe someone can help me here?

[Chintan_Gohel]

I tried my edit and created this timelapse: Milky way timelapse trial

I don’t like what I’ve produced, it just doesn’t look good.

And I have 300 photos after this for a second timelapse and 400 after that for a third timelapse. All of them are more or less about the night sky

I don’t mind waiting in developing the photos, as long as I can get the technique about editing astro photos right

Thank you

[agriggio (Alberto)]

@Chintan_Gohel

Is there a guide or tutorial series about editing?

for RawTherapee, I like this very much: https://paulsphotopalace.wordpress.com/
it covers also wavelets, and that’s what made me appreciate the tool

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@Chintan_Gohel

I think you’re right about the limitations of RT in noise reduction - I’ve noticed it myself

I personally am no good at noise reduction and my photos rarely need it, but I’ve seen some good noise reduction results from RT. Check out:

Noise reduction compared to LightRoom

I’m new to RawTherapee and would like to know if I am understanding the noise reduction correctly. I followed the Rawpedia documentation by using the Luminance and Luminance Detail sliders: Noise Reduction - RawPedia. However the result is visibly not as good as what I achieve with Lightroom (using the exact same 2 sliders). It is especially the case for high iso (3200 ISO) and on people skin/face. I know that there are a lot more options I can play with in Rawtherapee (wavelets for example…

Noise reduction for Highlight jpg

Hi, I am using RT for create JPG from RAW, some times for enhance JPG. Currently I am working with some JPG images contains highlights and color noise. I found a problem in preview even after processing whole image, RT doesn’t remove noise. Same it is for RAW where are big highlights. There are some screens. Disable Noise reduction - same preview [image] Enable Noise reduction - same preview [image] Enable Noise reduction - preview move to highlight and doesn’t remove noise from p…

http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Noise_Reduction

http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Impulse_Noise_Reduction

[Jonas_Wagner]

@Chintan_Gohel

but I have a question, you menti0oned masking/local edits. I don’t know what masking is but if I understand local edit correctly, you edited part of the photo and not the whole of it? Possible the milky way region?

Masking allows you to apply certain operations/edits selectively to parts of the image. This is a good example:

Luminosity Masking in darktable