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Sale ends on Monday 20th of June at 11:00am GMT

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How I Created The Image – Before/After Post-Processing

Workflow Explanation – Milky Way Light Trails

This image was created using Raya Pro – The Photoshop Plugin.

Thank you to my wife, Rachel for running along this path at with her iPhone. That’s how I captured the light trail. It took her 3 goes before I was able to capture it cleanly. Good job she’s a competitive runner!

This was a straight forward image to shoot and process. I shot one longer exposure at 1 minute 30 seconds for the foreground. A separate exposure for the stars at 25 seconds, and a third exposure for the light trail, at 20 seconds.

I blended the foreground exposure and the star exposure by manually masking. For the light trail I just placed that layers on the top of the layer panel, changed its Blend mode to Lighten, and voila! the light trails blended nicely into the scene.

Before all of that I’d added my usual colder cast to the scene, that I like to give my astro shots. This was done with the temperature slider in ACR.

After that, the processing was easy. Just a few contrast adjustments, the Orton effect from Raya Pro, and some selectively applied noise removal with Topaz DeNoise.

And I finished by creating a custom vignette that you can learn to do here: Quick Photoshop Secrets 9: Awesome Vignette For a Moodier Scene.

Finally, the image was sharpened and resized using my free sharpening tools, which you can download here: Quick Photoshop Secrets 16: Perfect Sharpening & Resize for the Web

As always, I hope you found this useful.

Jimmy