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Old 02-10-2013, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
Yes plus I was agreeing with Marc the highlights look a tad blown and the image overall seems (at least to my style of processing - not necessarily correct) overly smooth.

But that's picking at it. Its overall a splendid image and I can see why you like it. Its detailed, sharp, has a lot of depth to it. So the criticism is a minor point really of a splendid image.

Greg.
Thanks Greg! I appreciate your advice. I actually did smooth, but used an inverted mask of the image so that it would only smooth in the dark areas. I didn't detect it smoothing in the highlighted areas (I used noise Ninja). And I sharpened (unsharp mask) doing the reverse. Ie, with a straight mask of the image so that only the highlights would sharpen.

Anyway, perhaps one of you experts would care to have a quick go with my data? I'm uploading the raw image from CCDStack in case someone might want to see how they would present it. I certainly would be curious and I'm sure I would learn a great deal!!

Peter
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