This is a basic tutorial covering how to boost your Milky Way and get the colors in the galactic core to really pop. I also go over some quick basics of processing Astro-photos using just Lightroom 5.

To help break down the basics of editing a photo in Lightroom, Marc Silber of Advancing Your Photography has created a convenient video that walks through just a few rudimentary alterations.

This extract is from chapter 4 of the Wiley title 'Lightroom 4: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process' by Nat Coalson. After adjusting the settings on the Basic panel, you can further ...

Basic Lightroom workflow: Create a new catalog in Lightroom on the MacBook Air (File -> New Catalog). Give it a unique name to help distinguish it from other catalogs on your drive.