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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2174544, member: 19463&quot;]#2 strikes me as perfect.&nbsp; #1 is close but I&#039;d prefer a bit more light from the right rather than the left. </p><p><br /></p><p>#3&nbsp; If green is too vibrant try reducing the color saturation.&nbsp; I do not know Pixlr but some programs also allow you to adjust saturation for each color separately.&nbsp; If not, try just lowering the total saturation.&nbsp; If so, try lowering green and/or yellow to see if you get closer to truth as you see it on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>#4, 5 and especially 7 all seem to be redder at the top and bluer at the bottom.&nbsp; Mixed color like this makes me wonder if there is light on the coin other than from the lamps used or reflected from some surface.&nbsp; I once knew a photographer who had such troubles only when he wore his favorite purple shirt.&nbsp; I have no idea what makes the tint in your case.&nbsp; You might be able to help with a little less color saturation but don&#039;t go so far that you have monochrome photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some photos might be helped by raising the light so it did not graze harshly across the surface.&nbsp; You seem to take all photos with the light coming from about 10 o&#039;clock.&nbsp; I might suggest reshooting the ones you don&#039;t like with the light moved to 1 o&#039;clock.&nbsp; #5 in particular might benefit from a softer light bounced around more so you could give more exposure without increasing the glare on the back of the head.&nbsp; I believe a little more exposure would let you apply corrections without running out of detail in the &#039;toe&#039; of the curve.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you just started working with the process and the program, I&#039;d call the results something like miraculous.&nbsp; Practice makes perfect, they say, so make little changes and reshoot the bunch to see what each change did for the better or worse.&nbsp; Every time I make a change for some perceived fault, I seem to introduce some other problem which makes me wonder if I was better off before.&nbsp; Not every coin responds best to the same situations.&nbsp; Practice has not made me perfect but mostly more aware of what I&#039;m doing wrong that I used to do better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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