Methods of incorporating Ha into RGB or Luminance

I've been using his methods for awhile.     He taught me first hand when I produced this image.     Love the technique honestly.   "Jimmy" as we call him is a whiz at pixinsight, and a wealth of information.   He honestly needs to produce more guides.

https://www.astrobin.com/trmt94/

I have a somewhat different approach than what is described above as I don't use PI, probably never will, too much Algebra involved.  I only use Photoshop, CCDStack and sometimes a little Topaz, maybe not the best, but it seems to work pretty well for me so far. As for the question, for pretty much all my HaRGB or HaLRGB images I just sum the red and Ha into one channel and use it as red. For me, I had issues with adding just the Ha later and having it turn almost all the red a pinkish color, using the combined HaRed stopped that from happening. For the Hargb images I just use the Ha as the lum layer. The only example I think I have hear on Astrobin is my image of IC63. Not sure if this will help with anyone else, but it works for me.
IC59/IC63 The Ghost of Cassiopeia ( Bob Lockwood ) - AstroBin

I'll check out the Bill Blanshanvideo, I found his star reduction video to be very helpful.

I have to come clean regarding the Charles Hagan method linked to above..... I had used the first part of his continuum subtraction method to create a stripped down Ha, but then I reverted back to the more traditional method of adding it back to Red and Lum.....not sure why exactly, maybe mixing it into all three channels seemed complicated....or stretching everything before adding the Ha seemed odd.... Anyhow, I just tried using his complete method on an M82 image I'm working on, and now I feel like I need to go back and re-work a bunch of previous images!.....Ha! One issue I had though, was stretching the HaMinusLum image enough to show the fainter detail and not have the core area blown out when I combined it with the Lum, so I combined the HaMinusRed image with the Lum instead. Haven't put it up yet on AstroBin, but here's where I'm at so far.

Cheers,
Scott

I think it will work the best for most people if PI has a tool that does HaRGB (and even LHaRGB) with a slide bar to control the Ha fraction and (nearly) real-time preview of the effect, while maintaining the overall color balance when the Ha fraction is changed.  It's surprising that such a tool doesn't exist in PI while so many people constantly ask how to do it, for years.

I am not a PI person (although I do calibration and stacking in PI). I can do almost what I said above with PS.