Milky Way Editing Workflow
Explore Landscapes #35: As you get into dark sky photography/astrophotography, whichever term you prefer, there’s much to learn. In this post I focus on post-processing/editing.
One of my Dark Sky workshop attendees and newsletter subscribers requested this post, and I'm happy to oblige (thanks for the request, Dean). Here’s the workflow I use to edit my Milky Way images.
There is no one ‘right or wrong way’ to edit your images, but this is the workflow I use, and it gets me where I want to go with my final images.
I use Lightroom (and sometimes) Photoshop for all my post-processing and editing, so my workflow refers to the specific tool panels in Lightroom. The workflow should read across to other editing software; however, some features/panels may be called something slightly different.