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Title: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 10:58:52 AM
(https://johnfriedland3d.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/3/1/123141876/old-dish_orig.jpg)

- John -
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Nena on December 18, 2025, 03:25:09 PM
As if from a long gone time.

The sky looks familiar, is it Luminar?
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 03:37:56 PM
Nope !
It's a stock image.

- John -
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Nena on December 18, 2025, 05:22:07 PM
Possible, where Luminar got it from, this nebular has been used many times for sure and still is beauty :)
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 05:42:44 PM
Go to Unsplash and type in "Milky Way".
You'll be spoiled for choise ...

- John -
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Nena on December 18, 2025, 06:34:09 PM
This, or I use my filter Glitterato  :))

Flaming Pear (http://www.flamingpear.com/glitterato.html)
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 06:38:38 PM
I do have Luminar - but the 2018 edition and I don't use it for anything nowadays.
The reason was that there was no other RAW-editor at that time that could read RAW-files from my Olympys TG-5.
Now, if i use that camera, i shoot in jpeg, so I can edit them in Photoshop or any other image editor.

- John -
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 06:44:19 PM
"This, or I use my filter Glitterato"

Yes, but Photoshop is quite capable of doing nebulas, planets and starfields.
Takes a bit of patience but the result is top.
I would do that instead because then I can decide exactly how I want the outcome to be .. :)

- John -
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 07:01:32 PM
Like this moon backdrop:

(https://johnfriedland3d.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/3/1/123141876/moon-struck_orig.jpg)

- John -
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Nena on December 18, 2025, 07:21:14 PM
I love this old movie style render :)

I can't even tell, how old my Luminar version is and I barely use it and if, just for fun for myself.
Title: Re: Old Dish
Post by: Friedland on December 18, 2025, 11:20:27 PM
"I love this old movie style render"

I am an old fart !  :)

The oiginal Luminar I got in 2018 did its job well.
Converted the RAW-files to PSDs. The update  did some funky sheit and converted the files to garbage.
So I kept my L 2018 as is, but I was never interested in Luminar Neo...

Normally I used Canon's in-house software to convert the CR2s.
It also allowed me to shoot tethered (for studio use).
And it was free (if you had a camera serial number) !

- John -