Edit your time stack

With your time lapse taken, it’s time to blend the results together into a single, unique time-stack image. Here’s how to do it…

THERE ARE TWO ways to compile your time-lapse images into a single file – the quick and easy way, or the hard, lengthy way. The hard way involves cutting and pasting each and every one of your exposures as a new layer onto the previous and setting that layer’s Blend Mode to Lighten. The easy way involves simply downloading a clever (and free) piece of software called StarStax (http://bit.do/DSLR_starstax) and letting it do all the hard work for you – we’re going to go with the latter. Once stacked, you can chose to leave it at that, however the resulting image usually ends up looking a bit flat, as the multiple exposures even out the lighting. However, a few select tweaks to contrast and to enhance the sky are all…

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