Whether you are a beginning amateur astrophotographer, or a seasoned veteran, you will learn new and exciting techniques to produce visually stunning images!
Cheap, fast home personal computers and programs such as Photoshop have opened a new world of digital enhancement possibilities for both film and CCD astrophotographers. Now, with image processing software, you can turn your computer into a digital darkroom where you can easily improve the brightness and contrast, color balance, and sharpness of images, as well as crop, resize, dodge and burn, remove dust and scratches, adjust the color saturation, and apply filtration.

The book gives detailed, step-by-step directions describing methods for properly adjusting, correcting and enhancing images with Photoshop. These techniques will produce the best results, both technically and aesthetically, for output to the web, monitor, printing press, desktop printer, or film recorder.

These basic and advanced image correction and enhancement techniques are applicable to both CCD as well as film original astrophotos.

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Photoshop for Astrophotographers is not a traditional paper book. It is a digital book on CD that you will be able to view on your computer in any internet web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Opera. It will offer unique features such as "mouse-overs" that allow before and after comparisons of images by simply holding the mouse cursor over the image. A powerful built-in search engine provides automatic links to the pages containing the search terms. Practice files are included for use in the step-by-step tutorials, as well as comprehensive references and links to more information.

In this book you will learn about fundamental concepts such as:

Light, color and vision
Resolution
Dynamic Range
Bit Depth
Histograms
Color Spaces

You will discover how easy it is to:

Use digital image processing to produce beautiful astronomical images.

Learn tips and tricks for scanning difficult astronomical film images.

Correctly set the black and white points in Levels to maximize the image's dynamic range.

Make brightness, contrast and color adjustments in Curves.

Perform specialized color correction.

Correct vignetting and uneven field illumination.

Reduce grain and noise.

Create masks to selectively manipulate different parts of the tonal range in an image.

Composite multiple images to improve the signal to noise ratio.

Select the best file format and storage media to archive your images.

Soft proof your images and produce dazzling prints on a desktop inkjet printer.

The traditional wet darkroom with its messy chemicals is dead. It has been replaced with enormously powerful yet inexpensive desktop computers, scanners and printers. With this book you can become a master of the new digital darkroom. What are you waiting for?

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