JR Astrophotography Macros for Affinity Photo (tutorial)

It's finally here and is a monster! 41 minutes of instructional content on how to use my astrophotography macros for Affinity Photo.

If you're using Affinity Photo for astrophotography stacking and retouching, these macros not only speed up various aspects of the workflow but also enable additional functionality that you might not have known you can achieve in the software.

Free download: https://jamesritson.gumroad.com/l/jr_...

I also have available some example astrophotography documents that you can fully explore to see how to achieve non-destructive editing in Affinity Photo: https://jamesritson.gumroad.com/l/jr_...
More Affinity Photo macros and resources on my website: https://jamesritson.co.uk/resources.html

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:16 Installation
01:36 General Stacking Overview and How-to
04:00 Composition Setup Macros
05:00 Automated Tone Stretching Macros
05:50 Tone Stretching Macro Comparison
07:33 Live Background Mask and Live Star Mask
09:22 Live RGB Weighted Mask
11:02 Thresholded Star Mask
13:02 Weighted Saturation Mask
14:33 Live Background Subtraction
16:00 Reduce Background Luminosity
17:26 Reduce Star Luminosity
19:10 Reduce Star Intensity
19:40 Star Eater
20:21 Inpaint Star Detail & Inpaint Star Detail (Dimmer)
22:16 Remove Star Fringing
23:08 Star Motion Deconvolution
25:05 Soft Star Glow
25:23 Highlight Brilliance
25:40 Enhance Structure and Enhance Structure (Aggressive)
27:34 Local Contrast Structure
28:05 Soften Structure
28:43 Nonlinear Sharpening
29:16 Nonlinear Compositing
30:45 RGB Live Luminosity
31:13 Min-Max Live Luminosity
32:05 Deepen Colour Detail
32:35 Enhance DSO Luminosity
32:58 Golden Boost
33:20 SII Ha Tone Enhancement & OIII Ha Tone Enhancement
34:02 Enhance Colour Signals (Red/Green/Blue/Cyan/Magenta/Yellow)
34:55 Reduce Harsh Noise & Reduce Harsh Noise (+)
35:38 Denoising (Luma & Chroma, Chroma, Structure)
37:15 Monochrome Colour Mapping
38:26 Merge to 16-bit sRGB and Merge to 16-bit Wide Gamut
41:02 Outro and thanks