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<p>[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4875829, member: 112673"]As a professional numismatic photographer, and a coin lover, I can say I use Photoshop to make a coin look as accurate as possible. I don't think anyone is slimming the jowls of a Emperor's profile on a coin like they do with women's photos. So why do Pro coin photos look better? </p><p><br /></p><p>The tools and techniques I use allow me to capture more texture, detail, correct colour balance, contrast range and image depth than a cell phone or iPad can, and with professional editing tools applied, it seems people often mistake this superior level of capture as image "manipulation", as though the coin doesn't really look like that, simply because my system and techniques reveals things theirs don't. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177651[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177654[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177663[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177660[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4875829, member: 112673"]As a professional numismatic photographer, and a coin lover, I can say I use Photoshop to make a coin look as accurate as possible. I don't think anyone is slimming the jowls of a Emperor's profile on a coin like they do with women's photos. So why do Pro coin photos look better? The tools and techniques I use allow me to capture more texture, detail, correct colour balance, contrast range and image depth than a cell phone or iPad can, and with professional editing tools applied, it seems people often mistake this superior level of capture as image "manipulation", as though the coin doesn't really look like that, simply because my system and techniques reveals things theirs don't. [ATTACH=full]1177651[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1177654[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1177663[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1177660[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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