![]() These are night photographs, so that helps tremendously in reducing noise. The reason why the first method is the best option is that the multiple exposures enable you to keep the exposure time and ISO on the low end. ![]() Using Multiple Exposures for Star Trails Photography ![]() The first is the recommended method to get the highest quality image, but method two can also be used. Here are two popular methods for doing amazing star trail photography. I promise I won't send you spam.Mastering Star Trail Photography - Two Best Tricks Subscribe to any of my lists to be the first to know about new courses, upcoming photo tours, night hikes, workshop dates, new blog articles and much more. I named it Karmay (it used to have a horrible generic name).Fixed a bug to make the Help button work in macOS.Donations help me keep creating this kind of tool completely free of charge. The script is completely free, but below there’s a button to make a donation if you want to do that. That’s it! Then you have to wait for Photoshop to do its job, If you loaded a lot a pictures the program will take longer and vice versa. You now have to select a star trail look (I tried to get as closed as I could with just text lines instead of images) and then click on Create star trails. Just make sure you saved the metadata to the XMP files (in Lightroom this is done by right clicking on an image then Metadata > Save Metadata to File)Ħ – A little window with options and buttons will open: Tip: if the files are raw imagenes and you first develop them using Lightroom or CameraRaw, the script will read those adjustments. Choose the folder with the pictures you want to work and make star trails. How do I use the script?ġ – Download the script from this page (above are two options to download) and unzip the file.Ģ – Open Photoshop and close all documents.Ĥ – Search for the file Karmay_v1.x.jsxbin you unziped on step 1 on open it.ĥ – A window to select a folder will open. Please note that I used 100 pictures for every example. Iridium flare star trail: this look has 100 opacity in the center and goes down to 0 on both ends, that’s why I compare it to an iridium flare.Comet star trail, right to left: this is the same as above but the opacity is inverted, from 100 to 0.On one end it has 0 opacity and it goes up to 100 to the other end. Comet star trail, left to right: this look creates a comet-like trail.Regular star trail: the most common star trail we all know about, equal from end to end.So, for those two reasons in particular I prefer to use Photoshop to create star trails images, because by using that application I can do everything I need from StarStaX and I can do it without converting from raw to another file format, plus maintaining the develop adjustments I apply in Lightroom or CameraRaw. And second, if I do a lens correction before making the star trail picture, strange and horrible lines appear in the final image, as you can see in this 100% crop (pay attention to the mountain): But the most important thing to me and the reason I needed an alternative is because I hate to convert every image sequence from raw to TIFF to be able to create star trails (they take too much space). On the table above I listed the most importante functions without too much thinking, but I insist, I don’t mean to compete with anybody, so I won’t make a huge list of every single thing. They are just three, but let’s see a comparison anyway: FeaturesĮnglish, Spanish, German, French and Italian Markus Enzweiler’s application is, I think, the first one anybody who wants to create star trails would use, but it has some things I’m not very happy with, so I decided to develop this script that takes advantage of Photoshop’s engine to solve some of the issues and limitations I encountered with StarStaX. Download Karmay Click here to download Karmay A simple alternative to StarStaX I guess I’m not the only one who faced some issues I found with StarStaX, so I decided to share this script so everybody can use it. ![]() I don’t mean to compete with those programs, I just needed something that suit my needs. I created this Photoshop tool as an alternative to other software that lets you stack pictures to make star trails.
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