Three Tricks for Milky Way Edits: Grading, Star Shrinking, Enhancement

Over the past two weeks, "Astrophotography Field Tutorial" and "Night Sky Noise Reduction and Raw Processing" covered the essentials of shooting starry skies and basic noise reduction in post.

In today's video, I'll reveal more night-sky editing techniques — Milky Way enhancement, soft-glow grading, star shrinking and sharpening — to make the Milky Way in your photos more brilliant and colorful.

Video tutorial

HD video link:

http://v.qq.com/x/page/y0510d3slvd.html

Download links for the raw files and PSD file:

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1qYAZxko

Before grading:

After grading:

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