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Glamson: I see you added some more sharpness (which I neglected to do **chagrin**); what else did you do? How did you manage to keep that hill from going dark?

Leonard



Leonard,

Since you asked...

First I took the image into Capture NX and did the global lighting adjustments with levels followed by local adjustments with control points (that's how I lit the bluff). I think I used 5 or 6 control points to adjust the local lighting, saturation and contrast.

Then I took it into Paintshop Pro (I use this and CS2 sort of interchangeably with PSP being the quicker of the two) to clone out the riffraff and to apply selective sharpening to areas that I thought needed them. The selective sharpening could have been done in NX too but unfortunately NX doesn't have a clone tool or I could have done it all there.

Hope this is informative.

Geo

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