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It's surprisingly easy. Just expose and develop normally (slight overexposure helps), but without fixing. Bleach with potassium dichromate/sulfuric acid bath to remove the exposed silver (the image will disappear); then blast it with light to completely expose the remaining silver halide, redevelop and fix. Quick search on the web will find descriptions of the process.
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The proof is in the pudding - what it looks like. And if it looks "fakey" then that is bad enough.
But as it turns out there's nothing fake about it -- It was made with hand-coated paper, and those are the brush strokes where the sensitizer was laid down. Nothing was done to the picture but reversal and slight brightness/contrast adjustments.
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If you are interested in this technique, I have a brief description at:
http://www.photo.net/users/Godoggo/Cyano/cyano.html
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Better signal/noise on your individual images would help a lot. It's difficult to get the color right on both the bright galaxy and the dim sky. Try raising the floor on your V image, so the sky is almost black, before merging them.
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