This presentation was given on April 15, 2011, and covers topics including CCDStack, eXcalibrator, as well as Photoshop processing for narrowband images.
Mid-West Astro-Imaging Conference Presentations This conference was held in Chicago June 20-21 2008, and was sponsored by Sky Insight Magazine. I gave three presentations at this conference:
CCDStack Presentation An overview of the features and workings of this popular image processing program.
Photoshop Magic For the mid to experienced Adobe Photoshop user, this highlighted some important approaches that you can use to improve the results you're getting.
Narrowband Processing Workflow This was a soup-to-nuts run through of how to process a narrowband image. Starting with the workflow in CCDStack, right through to the end in Photoshop.
"Narrowband Imaging - Great Results from Poor Locales". Given April 25, 2008 at the NEAIC/NEAF conference in Suffern, NY. This presentation discusses the differences between RGB and narrowband imaging, and then goes on to illustrate detailed steps in CCDStack, then Photoshop.
The "Things That Make a Difference". This presentation, given Novermber 2007, highlights the 'soup-to-nuts' workflow that I often use, with a focus on some of the pragmatic things that I do to keep the quality of the photos I produce as high as possible.
