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03-JUN-2001 Ted Lane

Lake Champlain - after

Burlington, Vermont

1. Staightened and cropped via the measure tool along the horizon.
2. Edit-Convert to Profile - converted to LAB color.
3. Made the curves steeper for both the A and B channels (about 10 for A, 15 for B).
4. On the L channel in curves, moved the mid-point about 5 points up (darker).
5. Created a duplicate layer, unsharp mask 20-200-0 on the L-channel (Ctrl-1).
6. Flattened image.
7. Edit-Convert to Profile - converted back to aRGB.
8. Unsharp mask 20-60-0.
9. Resized/sharpened/converted to sRGB for web.

Nikon Coolpix 990
1/185s f/3.1 at 11.6mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Photo-Focus Group07-Dec-2005 18:06
By lord... look at those gorgeous colors Ted! This really 'pops' now.. Way to go!! - Christine