Milky Way Compositing in Photo RAW

In this video, I’ll show you how to harness the power of Photo RAW to seamlessly composite two captures—a Milky Way image taken with my star tracker and a long-exposure foreground shot during blue hour. After decades of shooting night landscapes, I’ve found this approach delivers the best results: highly enlargeable, printable, and tack-sharp night sky photographs. What once required painstaking, complex hand-masking can now be done quickly and intuitively. Thanks to Photo RAW, blending these images has never been easier—or more effective. Let’s dive in.