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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2461134, member: 1892"]I use the Gimp. It's not for beginners, but it's pretty powerful. All I did for the following was reduce Levels by 50%: [ATTACH=full]515993[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]515994[/ATTACH]  That's the equivalent of just allowing less light to hit the camera sensor, the same as a faster exposure or narrower aperture or lower ISO. The color still looks off to me as well, but we've no idea what in-camera processing might have happened, especially if the camera thought the shot was washed-out and increased the color saturation to compensate. In-camera JPG processing is not necessarily designed to be "faithful," it's designed to create pleasing images for the customer, and oversaturation is the norm especially in less-expensive models. We don't know anything about these shots other than they're large and well-focused. No EXIF data exists, no hint as to what processing happened either in the camera or afterward. If we assume the shooter left the camera to make choices about color, and the camera oversaturated the colors, this is what it might look like - all I did for this was "dial down" the saturation equally for all hues: [ATTACH=full]515995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]515996[/ATTACH] We have no way of knowing which of these three sets of images - if any of them - bear any faithfulness to the in-hand look of the coin. Part and parcel of learning to evaluate coins from images is to learn to evaluate images.[/QUOTE]