00:00 Introduction 00:16 Installation 01:36 General Stacking Overview and How-to 04:00 Composition Setup Macros 05:00 Automated Tone Stretching Macros 05:50 Tone Stretching Macro Comparison 07:33 Live Background Mask and Live Star Mask 09:22 Live RGB Weighted Mask 11:02 Thresholded Star Mask 13:02 Weighted Saturation Mask 14:33 Live Background Subtraction 16:00 Reduce Background Luminosity 17:26 Reduce Star Luminosity 19:10 Reduce Star Intensity 19:40 Star Eater 20:21 Inpaint Star Detail & Inpaint Star Detail (Dimmer) 22:16 Remove Star Fringing 23:08 Star Motion Deconvolution 25:05 Soft Star Glow 25:23 Highlight Brilliance 25:40 Enhance Structure and Enhance Structure (Aggressive) 27:34 Local Contrast Structure 28:05 Soften Structure 28:43 Nonlinear Sharpening 29:16 Nonlinear Compositing 30:45 RGB Live Luminosity 31:13 Min-Max Live Luminosity 32:05 Deepen Colour Detail 32:35 Enhance DSO Luminosity 32:58 Golden Boost 33:20 SII Ha Tone Enhancement & OIII Ha Tone Enhancement 34:02 Enhance Colour Signals (Red/Green/Blue/Cyan/Magenta/Yellow) 34:55 Reduce Harsh Noise & Reduce Harsh Noise (+) 35:38 Denoising (Luma & Chroma, Chroma, Structure) 37:15 Monochrome Colour Mapping 38:26 Merge to 16-bit sRGB and Merge to 16-bit Wide Gamut 41:02 Outro and thanks

James Ritson has transformed my astrophotography results. I tried to use Affinity Photoo pre macros and struggled somewhat , now with James's Macros and his excellent back up and explanations I am getting far better results. Thank-you James.

Excellent work James, thanks for the tutorial. I've been trying the various macros since you released them but probably sub optimally so nice to get clear guidance how to properly use them.

Simply amazing. No need for expensive Sofware anymore + much simpler to process my astrophotos

I bought your macros simply for image stretching. I had no idea it could do all this other stuff as well! Thank you!

Wow! This is by far the best astrophotography processing tutorial out there. It demonstrates how Affinity Photo should be the software of choice for astrophotographers. Thank you very much for sharing, I have a lot of info to digest.

This is perfect!! Thank you so much. Now I understand your macros 1000-times better than before.

James - outstanding job on both the video and the macros. The demonstrations really illustrate how to get the most out the macros and the best way to use them. This adds significant value to Affinity Photo for astrophotography. Thank you!

An already easy workflow made easier. Fantastic. Thank you.

Quel travail impressionnant ! Merci pour ce tuto très clair et indispensable pour bien utiliser ces macros qui constituent une boîte à outils extraordinaire. All the best !

Thank you very much! Most of the macros are indeed self explaining with litte experimenting, but some seemed not to work properly - just because I did not understand the intentions and where to change settings. With your detailed explanation this is now clear!

An outstanding body of work here, James. If the AP community should ever issue awards - an 'appy' perhaps :-) - I'm sure the committee would be flooded with nominations. Bravo!

Excellent explanation James, thank you. Great work!

Well done James - saves a fair bit of headache!

Very well compiled tutorial. Looking forward to the next one.

what can I say just starting out and what a gift thanks James

excellent. Ill be watching that again before it sticks, but looking forward to trying some of them now.

Super boulot, j'espère que j'arriverais à tout comprendre. Merci beaucoup. Great Job, i hope i will all understand.Thank you very much.

Back to reprocessing some of my images. Thanks!

Awesome work! Thank you very mutch I love the Macros :)

Great tutorial, thanks a lot

Fascinating to observe what Affinity Photo is capable of doing for specialists in Astrophotography. I wonder if the audience for this niche interest represent an underserved or poorly served customer segment that Serif have identified as being key to their business strategy. Do the astrophotography features of Affinity Photo represent a significant point of differentiation within the market for image editing apps including Adobe Photoshop?

Hi James, I'm excited by the prospect of using this, but two questions: You say the lights are already calibrated, and the the sigma clipping will remove remaining hot pixels. This suggests there should be an earlier tutorial of preparing light frames. Where is it please?

Very cool picture

Great teaching with great software. Is your gumroad site not functioning? Tried to download your astro macros. Thanks

Was about to pull the trigger on APP cause I'm struggling to make a decent image even following the tutorials (I Suck at Computers). I still have some gradients I can't seem to get rid of, but I think I'll try again using Macros as I never tried them when I downloaded V10 because I didn't' really understand them. Just curious, about your "calibrated" frames, how do I Calibrate my frames prior to stacking ? (and yes I donated Again cause I love your tutorials and continued awesome content !)

James, thanks, awesome! It'll take me months to get through this lot! 🙂 I think I asked this before, but is it ok to remove my earlier macro versions of 'Astrophotography 16-bit' and Astrophotography 32-bit' ?

Hello james, This is my problem i cannot download your macros im using macbook pro, do you have tuturial how to download your macros … thank you

Question .... i have about 6 hours of data of the orion nebula taken using just my DSLR and 600mm lens (no filters) they are just straight photos in RAW from the camera /// can you tell me how i would go about creating the hubble pallet look using your macros please , huge thanks good sir :)

When exactly will Affinity 2.0 be released?

Hi James, very good video. I cannot get the "Live Star Mask" Macro to work. I followed your video carefully and then tried to do a curves stretch. The level of the nebula AND the stars was increased. Any ideas pease.

A tutorial with a basic modified dslr would be great using the macros...

I am only working with single 16 bit TIFF files. Can these 32bit macros be used to tone stretch my TIFF? I'm trying them out, but all of them seem to remove most of the blue clouds from my Pleiades TIFF

Do you have a tutorial how not to burn the center of the galaxy?? I have a session with andromeda, and every time I burn the center of the galaxy.

Just reprocessed some old data using this. Worth the purchase. Thank you. One question, when I go to add files, my data isn't just fits files. There is a fits and a jpg for each sub so I end up taking longer to select the files. I end up CTRL-click on each fits file. Is there a way around this, to only show the fits files?

How did you arrive at individual "calibrated" light frames to start the stacking process? I have always stacked my calibration frames with the lights and generated a single composite stacked file in Affinity in the past. Excellent vid BTW, thank you.

James, I thought about your macros the last hour or so and also re-edited one of my images. It worked like a charm. As you are a Affinity professional I hope you can help me with the following questions I got while thinking about the macros. I'm shooting with an ASI 533MC Pro. It takes the pictures with 14bit. The fits are saved with 16 bit. Astrophotoprocessor saves the as 32bit fits I think. Up until now I saved them as 16bit tiff for processing as the 16bit won't hurt my 14bit originally - I think. Do you recommend to use 32bit for processing or is this unnecessary as my source only has 14/16bit? Are there any advantages to use 32bit even in this case? For re-edit I used Tiff's I did with APP. I shot with a Duo-Band-Filter and extracted Ha and Oiii as separate images. Imported them to Affinity, labeled them as Ha and Oiii and then applied your macros. Worked great and I really liked the output.

A slider to reduce ringing in the Deconvolution macro would be welcomed…😊🙏

Nice work, but do these macros work with version 2 of Affinity Photo?

Never having used photoshop or any photography processing app, I am completely lost from the beginning of this. I've just bought Affinity with the intention of using it but purely with DSLR (unmodified) data. Do any of these macros apply or, are of use, for DSLR astrophotography?

James your Macros are great. I have installed them and everything works. only problem is that when I try to register my version of Affinity, the software takes me to an Open Sign-in Page which tells me that my Browser is not supported and I can not register Affinity. I am on Mac and use Safari 13.1.2 but can not put a later version of safari on my Mac as its old. any solutions ?

Excellent explanations James. I am excited to try out your macros however the link to the download the macros does not seem to work.

Great!! Does anyone notice the face in some pictures?!!

Are these macros free to download