Enhancements

The last stop before export: eleven gentle, one-tap finishing moves for colour, stars, dust, glow and detail. Tap once for a nudge, tap again to stack — every tap is its own undoable step, so you dial the look in and back it off precisely.

Drag the slider on any example to compare before and after, all from the same frame — NGC 7000. Each effect is shown at increased strength so it reads clearly; a single tap is much subtler, and you stack taps to taste.

Colour boosts — hue-selective, they only touch their own colour

Four hue boosts, each targeting one colour. Boost Red (Hα) and Boost Gold (dust) are shown here; Boost Cyan (OIII) and Boost Blue work exactly the same way for those tones — most visible on OIII- or blue-rich targets, so they don't show much on this Hα-dominated field.

Boost Red (Ha)

Deepens the red hydrogen-alpha regions and leaves teal alone.

Boost Gold

Warms the golden-brown dust lanes and amber star fields.

Colour, smart

Vibrance

An oversaturation-resistant pop — lifts the muted colours more than the already-vivid ones.

Star Colour

Recovers the natural colour of stars — blue-white through gold — via a star/starless split, so only the stars gain colour, not the nebula.

Sky — shadow-masked, they only touch the dark background

Darken Sky

Deepens the background without dimming nebula or stars.

Lighten Sky

Gently lifts a too-dark background to reveal faint outer nebulosity.

Structure & glow

Dark Structure

Adds definition to dust lanes and dark nebulae — a brightness-neutral local-contrast lift, no muddy darkening.

Soft Glow

A dreamy Orton-style bloom that bleeds gently out of the bright signal.

Detail

Sharpen Nebulosity crisps up nebula structure and nothing else. Sharpening a whole astro frame finds the noise first and leaves ugly rings around the stars, so this doesn't do that: it sharpens the starless layer under a signal mask — excluding the faint background, so noise isn't amplified — then screens the stars back in untouched, where they cannot ring. It's the easiest finishing move to overdo; one or two taps is usually right, and if the noise starts to look like texture you've gone too far.

Every tap is captured in Recipes and replayed in Batch, so a night of the same target finishes consistently across sessions.

Finishing that survives a batch run

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