Star edition startrail 5 how to#
Star edition startrail 5 update#
Star edition startrail 5 full#

Additionally setting opacity across larger number of layers is even more cumbersome. Even if you find it simple and manage to load multiple shots as layers, Photoshop does not give an easy way of setting up the Mode for multiple Layers. For me – personally – the concepts of droplets was little contrived. Though simple, I was never able to get my head around Photoshop droplets. This article also talks about Photoshop Droplets.

Star edition startrail 5 how to#

It was not too over whelming, just simple steps on how to go about achieving this effect. As I was working on this, came across David Kingham’s article, which was quiet comprehensive. There was information on processing too, but there was no step by step approach on getting custom effects. You can also download a sample set completely free to try hands on …Īs I was searching online there was lot of information on how to set up and shoot for star trails. The reminder of the article presumes you have a handful of exposures (of shorter duration) of the star lit night scene. But with shots like this, it involves – a combination of steps from shooting multiple exposures, and manually editing each layer to achieve desired effect. For a regular star trail you could just fire up to get the final trail effect like this. I prefer the latter, as it gets really interesting with the post processing options. The other is get shorter exposure of around 30 seconds or less and have them merged later in post processing. One is a really long exposure – getting everything in a single shot, exposed probably for even hours together. As to getting the normal star trail effect – there are two ways of achieving it. The more I was looking at these, the more I was intrigued. It all changed until I came across some amazing Comet style processing of star trails like this.

Star edition startrail 5 full#

For some reason I preferred capturing the Milky Way at its full clarity like this, rather than the star trail style. If you had read my earlier article – ‘Sleeping with the Stars’ you would have noticed that I mostly shoot milky way shots. If you ended up here thru Google looking to set up for Star Trail shoots check out this comprehensive article Star Circle.ĥ Different Creative Post Processing with the same set of 86 shots (each 30 sec exposure) The below article predominantly focuses on Post Processing i.e. If you are just getting started do check out – Sleeping with the Stars.

This is the second installment of the Star Photography Article. I am still leaving this old article in place (along with the script) as it provides some insight into how the codes is designed / works. Check out this article – Scripts to Make your Star Trails Awesome – for more details.

Star edition startrail 5 update#

EDIT : There is an update to the Scripts with much more features and a UI now.