I'll be giving suggestions of my favorite editing styles, but also pointing out some helpful hints to keep things looking accurate and realistic. I'll address color, exposure, contrast, and other detail adjustments such as sharpening and noise reduction. In this tutorial I'll walk you through eight steps you can take in Lightroom Classic to improve your Milky Way image editing. As more people move to the cities to live, more of us are losing the ability to look up at the night sky and see the Milky Way, so even if we manage to get a snap of it, how are we supposed to know what looks normal? Detail that we have to process when editing the images later. This is compounded by the fact that our cameras can take long exposures and reveal detail in scenes that we can't see with the naked eye. For starters, the photo is taken at night when it's dark and the rod cells in our eyes aren't very good at picking up color in low light.
There are plenty of reasons why it's difficult to edit photographs of the Milky Way.
