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Was about to PM you Mike about splitting the thread, you saved me the trouble. Thanks.
Andrew, knowing there hand-held makes them even better. Well done. This is how I first started, with the kodak easyshare. I eventually made an adapter & fitted the camera to the OTA.
I use picture Publisher #8 as my image editing software. First I took your image & gave it 2 points of less gamma on all 3 red green & blue channels. Saved. Went back into gamma, 1 point less of the blue channel. Saved. Went into tone balance, up 4 points on highlights. Down 1 on midtones, up 2 on shadows, saved. 5 points of sharpening, 1 point of unsharp mask, saved. Went into hue map option, in there I have 11 colour/hue sliders. Tweaked 5 colour hues. Saved. Saturation shift, up 1 point. Saved. Resized smaller, Saved. Back into sharpening, up 2 points. saved. Down 6 points of despeckle. saved. Into Colour balance, up 5 points of contrast on red channel only. saved. contrast/brightness, up 2 points on all 3 red green blue channels on contrast, down 1 on all 3 channels brightness. Saved. Posted.
This is all just a basic 'tweaking' really. A lot more is involved to get the very best out of an image. Takes hours. I do it that often I don't need to think about it now. I think its taken nearly 3 years to learn this program, rather complicated, lol.
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