Layer Mask Retouching
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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to retouch your images with layer masks. This can be very handy when you’ve taken a few photos, but the best one you have is slightly out of focus and you’d like to blend in the focused part onto the your preferred image.
Photomatix Pro – Software
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Photomatix Pro is a photo enhancing program for stacking differently exposed images and enabling you to create HDR images. Then you can go on to do Tone-mapping of that image.
Star Trails (.exe) – Software
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Taking long exposures of star trails is really fun and interesting, but its only when all the exposures are stacked together that all your hard work is appreciated. So this program called “Star Trails” :) is brilliant for quickly stacking your shots!
Here’s the author’s homepage: https://www.startrails.de/html/software.html
Download(200kb)
For those still learning and experimenting with night photography, Lisa Row has an excellent how-to guide on astrophotography, please follow this link to learn more: How to photograph the stars, moon, and Milky Way: a beginner’s guide to night landscape & astrophotography :)
For more astrophotography tips & tricks, as well as much much more please check out Charles Wade’s tutorial and ultimate astrophotography guide here: https://nightskypix.com/beginners-guide-to-astrophotography/