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Curious which one people prefer. The first is the original where I just played with the sliders for saturation, exposure and vibrancy in aperture.
The second involved taking the camera raw version and exposing properly for the leaf, adjusting levels, sat., etc... and then importing into photoshop via a smart object. Then made a new smart object layer via copy, so that I could get another layer of the original image in Camera Raw, only this time adjust for the background. I adjusted the background in Camera Raw which updated the smart object copy layer in Photoshop. I then made a layer mask and painted the leaf and green background that I didn't want changed. Merged copies and here we are. Advantage of this process is that it is less destructive than altering in a lossy manner with JPEG/other format since all the main RAW adjustments were made in Camera RAW. Then applied an unsharp mask to bring out the bristles and noise reduction for the red/orange background.
And honestly after all that work, I don't know if the difference is really worth all that.
Paul
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