Course outline

Art Panel Pro v3

Get to know the tools in Art Panel Pro and learn to use them in your processing with step-by-step explanations and real examples. Explore masks, selections, working with stars and cleaning the sky.

The training includes the Art Panel Pro plugin and brings together 13 modules with 64 lessons, from the panel controls to complete edits and Astro Match. Expand each module to browse its lessons before you choose.

Modules and lessons

Introduction

5 lessons

Installation and license activation
Options menu
First look
Modals
How to follow the tutorials

Master Buttons

9 lessons

Zoom and delete layers
Brushes
Create layer and quick fills
Mask control
Create ground layer with mask
Clipping mask
Control: New
Control: Buttons around New
Custom actions

Masks

6 lessons

Luminosity masks
Midtone mask
Channel and color masks
Blur mask
Merge masks
Modify masks

Selections

4 lessons

Types of selection
Modify selections
Define a selection
Apply Mask

Adjustments

4 lessons

Adjustment Layers
Default filters
Smart objects
Blending modes

Stars

11 lessons

Remove black halo
Reduce star brightness
Reduce star brightness DS
Reduce stars manually
Remove color halos
Star saturation
Starlight
Blur stars
Diffraction spikes
Recover Stars
Starless AI (v 3.2 PRO)

Corrections

3 lessons

SCNR
Color corrector
Remove hot pixels

Sky cleaning

2 lessons

Art Gradient
Remove gradients

Filters

5 lessons

High Pass
Dark structures
Noise reduction
SBS
Denoise AI (v 3.2 PRO)

Final adjustments

6 lessons

First steps
Dodge & Burn
Look & Finish – Light pollution
Look & Finish - Orton
Look & Finish – Vignetting
Look & Finish – Black and white copy

Transform and save

3 lessons

Position
Resize
Save

Editing examples

2 lessons

Example 14 mm
Example ground + tracked sky and H-alpha

Astro Match

4 lessons

First Look (v 3.2 PRO)
Align Multiple Images (v 3.2 PRO)
Natural Horizons (v 3.2 PRO)
Add H-alpha (v 3.2 PRO)

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