JR Astrophotography Macros for Affinity Photo (tutorial)

It's finally here and is a monster! 41 minutes of instructional content on how to use my astrophotography macros for Affinity Photo. If you're using Affinity Photo for astrophotography stacking and retouching, these macros not only speed up various aspects of the workflow but also enable additional functionality that you might not have known you can achieve in the software. Free download: https://jamesritson.gumroad.com/l/jr_astrophotography_macros I also have available some example astrophotography documents that you can fully explore to see how to achieve non-destructive editing in Affinity Photo: https://jamesritson.gumroad.com/l/jr_astrophotography_example_documents More Affinity Photo macros and resources on my website: https://jamesritson.co.uk/resources.html Timestamps: 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