AstroFarsography | How To Reduce Star Sizes In Affinity Photo | Affinity Processing Guide @AstroFarsography | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 59 minutes ago.
Reducing star size is a quick and easy way to make your deep sky photos pop. In this tutorial I show you how you can do this in Affinity Photo, and show two examples with two different visual effects.

In this tutorial we'll cover:
- Selection Tools
- Expanding A Selection
- Feathering
- Minimizing The Stars
- Opacity
- Masking

I do hope you join me for this and I hope it's helpful! Any other requests for tutorials, drop them down in the comments below.
Clear skies!

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