From the course: Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop
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Making a constellation more visible - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop
Making a constellation more visible
- [Instructor] In some images of the night sky, there may be so many stars visible that it can be hard to see the shape of a specific constellation. Let's explore a way to emphasize a constellation with adjustment layers and layer masks so that it stands out better against the backdrop of a starry night sky. This shot of the big dipper over a silhouetted landscape up in the mountains is a 15-second exposure at ISO 2500. And of course, the big dipper is one of the more recognizable constellations. And if you know what you're looking at, you can see it here. But for some uses, or if it's a constellation or a grouping of stars that's not so familiar, you may want it to stand out a bit better. So what I'm going to do is come over to the Channels panel, and I'm going to take advantage of the existing brightness values of those stars. I'm going to use the technique for creating a luminosity mask that we explored earlier in the…
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