The Nik Collection is still one of my favorite plug-ins for Photoshop! It has a wide variety of filters that pair great with astro, or even portraits, wildlife, and landscapes!

In this video we'll take a look at the Topaz DeNoise plugin for Photoshop, and see how it does at removing grain from my astro images.

StarSpikesPro4 is a great plugin for Photoshop that allows you to add a nice star glow to your images. Or, you can add star spikes, if that's more appealing.

One of the most important aspects of Photoshop is Layers and Layer Masks. These will give you complete control of your image. But you must learn how to use them properly.

We'll be using TIFF files very frequently in the Milky Way Course. It would help to have Windows configured to automatically open them in Photoshop!

Another challenge of using Photoshop is quickly finding the tools you need. In this video I'll explain the various hotkeys I use. Now you can quickly hit a button on your keyboard to get the tool you want! No more hunting for an obscure button...

As you follow along with my tutorials, it would help if your Photoshop interface looked exactly like mine. In this video I'll show you how to configure everything to match my workspace.

This is one area where I tend to disagree with the general consensus. Although Adobe RGB may have more color information, most people will not be able to see it. If you're not careful, saving your photos in AdobeRGB will actually cause problems!

I'm guessing you already have your own photo organization workflow, if so, that's great! If you don't have a good system for importing and organizing your photos though, I'd recommend watching this video.

A color-calibrated monitor is essential to the editing process. If the colors on your screen don't match the industry standard, then your prints will look weird and your photos may not look the same to other people.