I don't mind either the side-lighting or the boxy crop, but of which usually bug me. SH and EXP look good. The brightest WHITEs could use a 10-15% Linear Burn. I like the image design and the raised foot but not the shadow on the foot.
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Hi Ian, Do you use Photoshop? Do you use NIK Color EfexPro?
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Linear Burn is a Blend Mode choice in Photoshop. I usually select the WHITEs with Select/Color Range, put them on their own layer, apply a Linear Burn by selecting that as the Blend Mode, and then usually reducing the Opacity and fine-tuning that with a Layer Mask. All as detailed in our Digital Basics file, an instructional PDF that is sent via e-mail. It includes my complete digital workflow, dozens of great Photoshop tips including Digital Eye Doctor techniques, several different ways of expanding canvas, a section on sharpening, a section on creating time-saving Actions, all of my time-saving Keyboard Shortcuts, Quick Masking, Layer Masking and NIK Color Efex Pro basics, and tons more.
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Digital Basics. Thanks for your purchase. Just do a search for Linear Burn and start studying. I'd love to do a repost. Be sure not to over-do it. About 15% usually restores detail nicely w/o greying things out. A 20% layer of Detail Extractor in Color Efex Pro does a similarly excellent job.
When you have some time, it would behoove you to study all of the Photoshop stuff--there is literally a wealth of info there. Same as with ABP and ABP II. :)
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