When you edit Milky Way and astrophotography images, perhaps you tend to experience some frustration with Photoshop. Where should you even begin?

The truth is that Photoshop is a huge software, and it can do almost anything you can think of. It's impossible to cover everything in one video, but these five tools in particular are some of the best and most useful ways to add some "pop" to your astrophotography.

The five tools I explain in this tutorial are as follows:

1. How to re-edit any sliders you changed in Adobe Camera Raw
2. How to make natural-looking color edits to the night sky
3. How to selectively edit the foreground in your Milky Way shots
4. How to add a glow effect that's become so popular lately
5. How to post-process just the stars with a smooth selection

These only scratch the surface of Photoshop's tools for astrophotography, but hopefully they give you some good ideas so that you can post-process your photos as well as possible.

Let me know if you have any questions about editing Milky Way photos!

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