[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

In Photoshop I make 2 layers, in the underlying layer I will tone down the highlights in the core, then in the upperlayer add a layer mask and paint out the bright core. It then shows the less blown out core underneath.
At least that's what I did here, in your initial stretching I would do it there and keep adding layers and adjust

Looks alot better.