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My own private false-color Saturn

So I've been going to the Cassini-Huygens site, digging all the articles and pictures of the "Frigid Ringworld." Now as cool as the natural color images are, why be stuck with natural?

I went into the raw images and found quite a few grayscale images of the same subject, just with different filters in front of the camera. The different filters show different kinds of detail and different contrasts, similar to the differences between the Red, Blue and Green channels of an RGB image.

So I took a few of the filtered pictures and assigned them to different color channels of a single picture in Photoshop. Using RGB channels gave me very odd results, so I created a CMYK image, which gave a much more subtle result — although still not natural.

Another issue was registration, I had to make sure that the different color channels were aligned, or the image would look blurred.

At the end I just converted to RGB and saved out as a JPG image.

So what do you think?

I was aiming for a subtle effect, but still different from the natural color images. I really need to do this with a more interesting shot of Saturn, something with rings and shadows and stuff.

If you are really interested, here are the images I used for this composite: N00008519, N00008520, N00008517, N00008515.

Now, go thou and do likewise!