Comments on: How NASA Photoshopped A Galaxy

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:34:01 +0000

How can they tell a bad pixel from a tiny star? :P

By: Har Rai K.

Har Rai K. — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:46:12 +0000

Looks like a massive amount of work.

By: Simon Lynch

Simon Lynch — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:42:26 +0000

@Tuukka,

thanks you for making it slear to everyone! ;)

By: Von Wong

Von Wong — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:34:13 +0000

Bouuu…galaxies are just an extremely fancy custom-coloured HDR image

Oh well, I still find it puhretty <3

Awesome find guys!

By: Tuukka

Tuukka — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:34:56 +0000

This is not a fraud. The galaxies do exist like in those pictures! They just used 3ccd cameras – different kind of those.

Despite of using three main color sensors they use sensors that detect three different wavelengts. And different wavelengths = different colors.

Those wavelengths has to be manually matchet to colors. After that it’s just normal photoshop.

By: Martin Jensen

Martin Jensen — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:24:00 +0000

This is nothing new that they need to “fix” the images. in the film days they used blackwhite film and shot with color filter on it and then developed the print in color..
now I´m going to watch the vid in 30 min.. :D

edit: well they does it the same way now… even thou it is digital now a days.. ;)

By: Martin Jensen

Martin Jensen — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:14:11 +0000

By: Jun

Jun — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:08:48 +0000

so…. if i actually fly up close to one of those galaxies, it won’t look like how it appears in my coffee table book?

By: Patrick Hall Admin

Patrick Hall Admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:39:03 +0000

@Erni, they tell you in the final credits :)

By: Erni

Erni — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:30:07 +0000

Wich is the name of the song?