[Sticky] Not getting enough colour in my final integrated stack, how to increase?

Hello Vincent, I made sure everything was default and went thru the whole process again and everything seems fine, getting plenty of color now, not sure what is different this time but I really appreciate the fast responses. I purchased APP full version a few days ago and I am sure I will enjoy using it, thanks again.

While and old post, it is still useful. Color-preserving arc sinh stretches have their uses, but integration time works for me in this sense with some tweaks to the saturation options in APP. I am using an OSC camera, 16-bit native and large full well (ASI2600MC). the increase color, especially depth of color in the image I find that HSL selective color tool to remove chrominance noise and background be desaturating all colors between  0 - background is a good first step. Then, in a standard 15% saturation (for example), I reduced the saturation threshold to about 5-% and that bring up a lot of the color depth. Although, I have not seen such a bleached out effect in APP since using the 1.082/3 versions, and I have never used the older versions myself.