FITS Liberator
July 20th, 2008 by kentPlaying around with a new (to me) Photoshop plugin, FITS Liberator. After downloading raw image files in the FITS format from NASA or various universities you open them with Liberator. Then import then into Photoshop and edit them to get the types of photos you are used to seeing from the Hubble space telescope.
Start out with this. (Actually it takes 3 images of red, blue and green layered together to get the final image.)
Blue channel
End up with this. I filled in the blank space to keep from wasting black ink when printing.
Final
I’m going to download some more to play with to see if I can get better at it.
