Starship Asterisk*

To the trained eye, it's quite obvious. I've used Topaz AI for the sharpening of DSO images before and it yields the exact same results in terms of the detail on dust lanes. Just because the metadata editor says it's last been opened in PS, it doesn't mean that Topaz wasn't used. My processing routi...

I haven't seen this much overprocessed 4565 - perhaps ever. All of the detail in the dust line is simply "invented". You could have pretty much used a paintbrush. I don't know what the editors are thinking. It feels like it's becoming a trend to put overprocessed fake images on APOD latel...

TOPAZ! Why are so many APODs going crazy with Topaz?! It feels like the entire concept of an APOD is being ruined, using these artificial AI sharpening tools turns the image into a water-color painting, not an astronomical image! All of the detail here is entirely fake and undermines the astronomy c...