Astrophotography Stacking Feature in Affinity Photo 1.9 🆕 along with Easy Background Removal Filter
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Serif just dropped a major 1.9 update to Affinity Photo which happens to have a new tool for Astrophotography. They have now included Astrophotography stacking mode into the program which is a one stop shop for aligning, correcting and stacking photos to produce a final image ready for curve and colour adjustments.
It allows for calibration of your bias, flats, darks, flat darks with the light integration files. It allows for sigma clipping which is great for removing imperfections which means it’s a suitable substitute for many other stacking programs.
The next step is background reduction which while basic (automatic based on selected points) it does give a good effect and allows for real noise reduction in the image.
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Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Affinity Photo update 1.9 in 2021
0:25 New Astrophotography Stack in Affinity Photo 1.9
3:45 Levels, Curve Adjustments and Cropping after Stacking in Affinity Photo 1.9
4:45 Astrophotography Background Removal in Affinity Photo 1.9
6:25 Post Processing Adjustments to a Stack Astrophotography Photo
7:00 Using StarNet++ to further Process an Astrophoto using Affinity Photo 1.9
11:44 Export the Final Image and Conclusions on Affinity Photo 1.9 for Astrophotography
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This new 1.9 update to Affinity Photo is really something, the fact that they added in a dedicated astronomy stacking routine is something! Anyone else find any other upgrades to the software that helps process astrophotography images?
Nice clear video! I was curious about this photo editor but was not sure if it could replace my use with photoshop, but now with this it became a no brainer!
This new update has definitely tightened the gap for sure, still playing around with all the new tools myself but unless you are doing something extreme Affinity Photo (and its companion programs depending on your need) seem to cover all the bases.
Interesting ..... Just came across your video today and was REALLY PLEASED that there was an update to Affinity Photo! 1.9 loox awesome, and I can't wait to try it out using your vid as a guide! many Thanks! Les from Vancouver Canada.
Serif’s 1.9 update to all the Affinity line-up is quite impressive. They are really trying to take a shot at narrowing the gap with Adobe products and this Astro Stacking algorithm is a huge step forward than the manual process that existed before.
Cool Tutorial, I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
I saw it on their update video. I’m considering dumping Adobe after twenty years with them. It was nice to see a fellow astrophotographers opinion. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you found it useful Garnett, I'm still exploring all the new features but this update is a massive leap forward from where the software was a few years ago when I last looked at it.
If you haven't seen them yet, you should check out James Ritson's dedicated astro macros for Affinity. He works for them in some capacity, but is an avid astrophotographer as well. Just search for his name on UA-cam and you will see.
Thanks for the review and demonstration I will definitely give it a try.
They have a free 90-day trail running at the moment so its a great time to give it a whirl!
Thanks for the tip about background removal up front. I had been using that tool later in the processing with good but NOT great results. Your method improved the final result so will be practicing now for the rest of the day..LOL
Learn a new trick = reprocess all your old data... the way of Astrophotography LOL
Great video. Appreciated the piece about StarNet++ also! Thanks ansd please keep them coming.
Glad you enjoyed the video Dave, if you have questions let me know and I can make another video to answer.
This was very helpful. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, let me know if you have questions!
Stunning! And great video. I’m waiting for Serf to do this and tutorials on same for Affinity photo for ipad!
I do hope this comes to iPad as well however its quite a intensive processing step (even with my PC Tower) so not sure how feasible stacking on a iPad will be unless its the "latest & greatest" model. Which model do you have?
@@EmberSkyMedia HI I have the iPad Pro 11 inch version. And i do all my Astro image processing on Affinity photo for ipad. I don’t have a desktop or laptop
@@cindymathe2519 That is a great model of iPad to have, those "Pros" are something else! Fingers crossed all the new 1.9 updates make it into the iPad soon!
Hi if you are having problems with the starnett section of this tutorial then make sure that when you export your 16bit Tiff you click ‘more’ and set compression to ‘none’.
Thanks for the Tip Richard, I was wondering why sometime StarNet++ didn't always give perfect results. I'm going to test that right now!
Thank you for the explanations. Just an idea to use Sharpen AI or Denoise AI from Topaz. You can use the Photoshop Plugins for that in Affinity.
I do have Topaz Denoise AI and Sharpen AI, those would be next steps if I was to process this further but I wanted to keep this video just about Affinity Photo. I do have a tutorial video where I use all the software tools ⚒️ I have including Topaz etc. Https://ua-cam.com/video/XFZnXR7veLk/v-deo.html
I appreciate this content. I'm trying to use this to show star trails and can't seem to understand the settings. Any pointers for this type of work?
Startrails.de is the app you want (it’s free), it makes startrails from your photo stack.
In GIMP and PS I use the levels adjustment to align the RGB colours on the histogram. Is it the same process in AP? I have just installed AP and am still getting familiar with the process. Hope to see more videos on AP processing.
I'm hoping to post a tutorial video soon on editing astrophotography with Affinity photo, however I'm still learning it myself and I want to make sure I get it "right" for the next step before I put out a video saying "this is the way to do it!" as its a slightly different method / thinking than PS uses.
wow thank you for sharing! I love sky watching I have 4 telescopes my self, but none are guided all manual wanting to learn more on this subject! Hit the bell and will be watching!
Thanks for the bell Mittens, let me know if you have any questions and I'm happy to help. Are you aware of the "500 Rule" when doing photography without guiding or minimal tracking?
@@EmberSkyMedia No I am not , but want to learn as much as I can. I have always been interested in telescopes but never owned one until a couple years ago when I received an 8 in Dobson with only one eye piece, Ironical I also received a 6in as well a few months later as a gift a few more eyepieces but not quality ones so have been buying some pieces here a nd there just bought a laser collimator so I can finally line the mirrors up. also bought a 7mm-21mm zoom eyepiece for starting. I also have a regular telescope which is easier to carry about for general viewing all these telescopes were second hand but am very grateful to have them! Ty so much I plan on viewing your channel to learn !
Oooo it made a right mess of the moon. Soft bleached out ball. Back to the drawing board.
For lunar I'd suggest PIPP and Autostakkart! which are free tools specifically for Lunar and Planetary processing (and Registax for Wavelet transformation although you can use multiple sharpening software these days).
hi, which option to use if I want to "show" meter showers .. thx
Meteor stacking is done similarly but instead of averaging out the stack you want to add or screen the layers. Trick is you generally do a stack (for the background) and then apply the frames with meteors in them afterwards.
Hello, i use fits file from dwarflab and stacked image is alaways green, Do you know why? Thank you!
Let me check, it’s likely due to the Bauer pattern being GBRG rather than RGGB.
it seems to me it can't really handle loads of files... Tried to stack 500 lights and it went on for 2 days with still no result... (the free) DSS did the same files in 3 hours...
Thanks for the Feedback Peter, I’ll look into doing a speed stacking test for a later video between the software I have.
Felt that “L A Z Y” … ;)
Its a lot easier to stack with Affinity then a lot of other programs, but your options to tweak the stacking method etc is more limited.
Is this on iPad
I used the Desktop version on my PC
Good but way too fast, there is No way to follow your work, so if you done this for beginners they as me, stop watching at 05.03
I’ve had comments to the opposite when I went slower, but I’m happy to answer specific questions but I’m assuming some level of knowledge in Astro photo processing before one attempts to tackle PixInsight.
@@EmberSkyMedia Just make it that slow so we have time to see which buttons you select or tool another way would have text on the video. I have just began learning Affinity Photo which seems to be very good for Astrophotography. I will follow you and probably ask some questions as well. I didn’t mean my comment in any bad way but you who makes tutorials has to remember that who is watching is mostly beginners not those who can the program already
@@pekkahautala2549 100% agree with you.
Way too fast can't keep up!
There is a feature in UA-cam where you can slow the pace of the video. I tried to pick an ideal pace so people didn’t start skipping ahead and potentially miss a vital step.