Here is a quick video tutorial of how I use the luminosity masks described in my last blog post to manipulate / boost the colours in my Milky Way core.

The benefit of using this sort of method is that I can target the highlights more specifically so that I don’t get colour leak in any of the midtones/shadows of my image. It lets me have a nice clean Milky Way where I can either bring out the ‘natural’ colours that exist, or manipulate it for artistic effect - sometimes I will cool down or warm up the core depending on my surrounding foreground and the look/feel I am going for in my images.

Hope this is useful - if you find these useful leave me a comment here or on my YouTube channel :)