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Old 03-10-2011, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
Nice shot there for a first light.

I can see a need for flats there. The corners are quite a bit darker than the middle areas of the image. Flats even out the illumination across the image.

Also a gradient handling is needed to get rid of the reddish/brown background. Gradient Xterminator is good for that amongst other processing approaches.

It would increase the colour contrast of the image quite a bit.

Flats can make quite a difference to an image and I think it is worth keeping it in your routine. In your case it will be a subtle improvement but an improvement nonetheless.

Greg.
Thanks Greg,
Flats a going to be a big plus, as mentioned in my first post, this is a crop of the original, I have attached the original uncropped version which clearly shows it needs flats. I will apply the Gradient Xterminator on my working image and see how this turns out.

Many thanks for your input as its desperately needed.

Paul
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