Why photos coming out black and white? | Astrobiscuit | Page 1

noble basin Apr 12, 2023, 6:37 AM

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I been shooting in RGB24, when I process in deepskystacker and photoshop, they never come out in color. I been capturing over and over, night after night. It would be nice to figure this out.

lilac moon Apr 12, 2023, 8:55 PM

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Are you debayering ?

noble basin Apr 12, 2023, 9:44 PM

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Is that in dss? Ive looked and don’t know exactly where its at…

lilac moon Apr 12, 2023, 10:03 PM

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Under options, you should have something called “Raw/fits settings”

coarse echo Apr 12, 2023, 10:04 PM

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wait so if you change the settings to raw It will take them in raw format and just how your eyes would see it so that would make it colorful am I right or wron guys?

lilac moon Apr 12, 2023, 10:05 PM

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Are your files in fits format?

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Have a look at this https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/317733-how-do-i-force-debayer-in-dss/

Stargazers Lounge

How do I force Debayer in DSS?

When I capture raw frames in Sharpcap they are saved as .png files. DSS assumes they are debayered so the final result of stacking is a black and white image. Can anyone suggest how to force it to debayer them.

lilac moon Apr 12, 2023, 10:07 PM

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coarse echo wait so if you change the settings to raw It will take them in raw format and ju...

You mean during capture or in DSS ?

bright prawn Apr 12, 2023, 10:31 PM

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I had a problem similar a while ago, the problem i had was that DSS was reading my RAW files as grayscale, and so the output TIFF file was also gray