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Uploaded: 06/18/08 4:36 AM GMT
Simple pleasure
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Geranium on my back porch.

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::dabluechip
06/20/08 8:55 AM GMT
The flowers look interesting, but the photo is washed out. I think you could recover that with adjustments to the exposure or contrast or brightness. thanks for the share.
jonathan
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.mike4820
06/20/08 1:23 PM GMT
Does appear to be overexposed and a little bit out of focus.
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+nmsmith
06/20/08 1:51 PM GMT
Hi my friend,

I agree with the others - it does look a little washed out. Is it a total loss, though? I think not. A couple of adjustments in Photoshop can bring out the picture some...

Go have a look at this touchup of your picture - LINK

In Photoshop I duplicated your picture into a new layer and blurred it quite a bit - then I increased the saturation to warm it up some. Then I erased the flowers on this layer which brought back the image in the layer underneath.

I duplicated this layer and set the layer blending mode to multiply to vignette the edge (darken the edge to focus on the flowers).

Finally, I sharpened the original image a little, and increased the contrast.

So we end up with sharper, higher contrast flowers, yet softened background edges that also vignette the image a little.

Hope this helps.

Your friend,
Nathan Smith
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.zunazet
06/22/08 3:22 AM GMT
A bright and cheerful geranium. Very pretty.
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