PiMagic Studio

Mosaic processing greatly expands the usefulness of Pimagic Studio V2, and AstroMagic allowing you to easily and quickly create outstanding mosaic images. This new tool takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

PiMagic Studio V2 is now installed entirely through the PixInsight Repository. Follow these simple steps and you’ll be up and running quickly.

PiMagic V2 Smart Mode takes the guess work out of processing. It knows the best settings based on the type of image data you’re processing. Just load your files and start.

Smart Mode makes processing easy, but sometimes you want more control. Expert Mode opens up the controls so you can control the process and parameters.

Layers and layer groups are the fundamental building blocks of a Photoshop image. Fortunately, AstroMagic uses the same layer structure for every image so it’s easy to find your way around.

Every AstroMagic image includes a layer group labeled Global Adjustments. It’s used to adjust brightness, contrast, color, etc. of all of the combined image layers below it in the layer stack. It does not affect the stars, so you can easily balance the background and stars for just the right look.

Color images and layers may be the most common types of images. All color layer groups will have the same basic structure making the adjustments easy and familiar.

Monochrome images captured with narrowband filters give us the opportunity to choose the color mapping scheme. The most common is the SHO or Hubble color palette, which is the default color scheme for AstroMagic.

You can think of astro images as being made of two things – stars and everything else. Fortunately, the stars are in their own layer group so it’s easy to find just the right balance between the stars and everything else.

One of the nice features of PiMagic Studio V2 is the inclusion of Annotations Layers. This video explains the three layers and how to work with them to fine tune your image.

PiMagic Studio is now able to capture image metadata, such as filters and integration time. That information is displayed in an editable Metadata layer group so you can easily keep it with your image.

Follow along as we use AstroMagic to help process an image from a monochrome astronomy camera using a typical set of LRGB filters. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Welcome to PiMagic Studio Version 2.0, the latest in the innovative set of software that makes astrophotography easy and fun. PiMagic Studio does all of the initial astrophotography pre-processing. Then, AstroMagic allows you to easily create a consistent, efficient and familiar workspace to finish processing your image.

The video was prompted by questions about PiMagic Studio and its use of generic SPCC settings for filter brand and sensor type versus very specific filter and sensor brands and models. In this video I run some test to see if changing to very precise, or completely wrong, settings makes a difference in the result.… Read more: How Important are SPCC Settings?

Follow along as we use AstroMagic to help process an image from a monochrome astronomy camera using LRGB+Ha filters. In this example we’ll also use red continuum subtraction to clean up red light contamination in the Ha data. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Follow along as we use AstroMagic to help process an image from a monochrome astronomy camera using a typical set of SHO filters to create a Hubble Palette image. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Follow along as we use AstroMagic to help process an image from a monochrome astronomy camera using a typical set of LRGB filters. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Follow along as we use AstroMagic to help process an image from a one-shot color camera using a combination of a clear filter and a dual-narrowband filter. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Follow along as we use AstroMagic to help process a simple image from a one-shot color camera. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Learn more about various tools built into AstroMagic for Photoshop. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Learn more about the basic Photoshop layer structure created for you automatically by AstroMagic for Photoshop. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Photoshop is a critical workflow element of a complete, non-destructive editing workflow. This video explores some o fPhotoshop more advanced tools, such as blending modes and smart objects. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Photoshop is a critical workflow element of a complete, non-destructive editing workflow. This video explores Photoshop layers and layer groups, two of the most fundamental features in Photoshop. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Photoshop is a critical workflow element of a complete, non-destructive editing workflow. This video explores the Photoshop workspace and explains how to organize it to fit your workflow. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.

Photoshop is a critical workflow element of a complete, non-destructive editing workflow. This video explores why Photoshop’s tools are so useful. PiMagic Studio takes the drudgery out of astrophotography post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop so you can focus your time on the creative steps.