#Could someone try editing this and explain how you did it (Orion Nebula)
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Here is my process:
First I remove the background gradient with GraXpert. The program creates a grid of points, calculates the background and then subtracts it. The preview does usually not look to great, but as long as the brightness is even that's ok. 😉
Then I do a basic stretch on the data (levels and curve adjustments) in Affinity Photo. The stretched image should not be too dark:
After that I crop the image to final dimensions, denoise it and run StarNet to separate the stars.
Now that the stars are gone I bump up the contrast and color (also Affinity Photo):
Finally I add the stars back.
It's not my best edit, I had limited time, but I hope the information is helpful. 😄
That looks amazing! Thank you very much for that.
No problem 
I gave it a real quick process, went for a bit of a softer look
I used noisex to get rid of the noise there for you 😄
How did you get so much color?
the processes I did in order (in pixinsight):
Crop
DBE
Colour calibration
Blurx
EzSoftStretch
Noisex
Curves
Local histogram equalisation
Curves
Aside from a few tools only in pixinsight, a lot of this can be achieved with similar things in other software (e.g. blurx is just a deconvolution algorithm, noisex is denoise, ezsoftstretch is just a fancy histogram stretch)
Thank you!
Ran a colour calibration before stretching (did a fancy version of the histogram stretch on it)
Do you need a license to use PixInsight? @shrewd jetty