Make Your Stock DSLR Colours Pop Like A Dedicated Astro Camera! | Complete Photoshop Tutorial

It's a two for one! How to process your astro images using Photoshop without spending all day on it + how to make your stock DSLR look like it's a dedicated astronomy camera. I use my image of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae taken with just 1 hour of exposure time with an unmodified DSLR, showing just how powerful this simple method is.

Method Outline and Time Cards:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Image Configuration & Initial Stretch
03:49 Gradient XTerminator (optional, paid)
04:28 Remove Stars - Starnet V2 (free)
08:13 Create Stars Only Layer
09:38 More Stretching
13:18 Astronomy Tools Action Set (optional, paid)
16:00 Camera Raw Filter Tricks
23:14 Selective Colour Tool
26:12 Reduce Stars

Free Plugins used:
Link #1: Arcsinh Curves (see link to AstroEd's video on this below) http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronom...
Link #2: Starnet V2 https://www.starnetastro.com/download/

Paid Plugins Used:
Link #3: Gradient XTerminator https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/Gr...
Link #4: Astronomy Tools Action Set https://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/As...

I have taken snippets from many others' techniques to create this procedure. A particular thank you to AstroEd who's videos have helped me the most. Link below to his video about how to use the curve stretching plugin properly. I do a simplified version in this video, which is probably 90% as good.
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