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Mike Needham Senior Member Registered: April 2002 Posts: 411 users gallery	I pulled a bit of a swifty on this one. First I colour corrected by adding a threshold adjustment layers and finding the true black and white points in the photo. Then discarding that layer I added a curves adjustment layer. That got rid of the green tinge that was so evident. Then I ran a high pass filter at around 3-10 and set the blend mode to hard light (although the linear light technique mentioned by some1 else in this challenge entrigued me, it didnt seem to produce the effect I needed) Here comes the silly bit: No matter what I did to this photo I could not get rid of the 'halo', so in the end I decided to employ a little trickery. I cut around the main petal shapes with the pen tool, this gives a hyper real sensation and makes the flowers jump from the page. I had to then blur some of the further back flower heads, to give the impression of depth of field. I could have concentrated more on the depth of field but after 34 channels of petals, I was fair broken by the experience. Anyway been away from RetouchPro for far too long (work as always) so it was good to touch my toe back into the water.
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Flora

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Registered: March 2002
Location: Milan, Italy
Posts: 2,291

5/27/2003 3:42pm

.....WOW....and WOW again .....
This is absolutely stunning, Mike!!!!
....Apparently I'm not the only one using unusual techniques

...but your result is really superb!!!!

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vijayan

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Registered: January 2003
Location: Trivandrum, India
Posts: 73

5/29/2003 2:31am

Mike, it is very clear, sharp and really it challenges.
perfect entry...

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Thanks,

Vijayan
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Mike Needham

Senior Member

Registered: April 2002
Posts: 411

6/1/2003 1:52pm

Cheers for the positive comments. I realise I cheated a bit, but I was at a loss at what else to do.

ACTUAL iMAGE

Junior Member

Registered: September 2003
Location: Gurnee, IL
Posts: 4

3/17/2004 3:03am

I don't quite understand how that's cheating...I mean, it looks to me like you've just slammed the challenge home! It's a fantastic entry. I honestly appreciate the chance to view it. :-)

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The Pantone Menace

freelancer
Member

Registered: June 2004
Posts: 36

6/7/2004 3:58pm

I like how you cheat!

Great work... it doesn't matter how one gets the job done.

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lkroll

Senior Member

Registered: January 2005
Location: Alabama
Posts: 4,156

2/12/2005 5:01am

Sharpest and best I've seen; wouldn't want to be you while you were doing all of this though; too bad there doesn't exist a decent deblurring tool.

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Lyle
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timmyl528
Junior Member

Registered: January 2009
Posts: 1

2/16/2009 1:58pm

This is the best of the group that I've seen. Keep up the good work!

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