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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3260003, member: 19463&quot;]Isn&#039;t that the case with so many things?&nbsp; I wish we could convince people that using picture editors is not cheating.&nbsp; The idea is to make the photo look like the coin but the coin looks different every time we wiggle it in a different light so we have to decide what we can do to represent the coin best and most fairly.&nbsp; A lot of the time and practice needed here will be deciding not only how to use the tools available but deciding which tools are appropriate to use.&nbsp; At a minimum, we can ask photos cropped to eliminate extra background and lighted so you can see the coin.&nbsp; When you want to read something it is OK to turn on a light and use reading glasses as needed. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I could convince myself to learn free editors like Pixlr but I have so many years invested in learning the software I have been using for photos other than coins that I would be doing it just to help people who did not have the ones I use.&nbsp; Any of several dozen editors can do the same things.&nbsp; It is just a matter of learning the language.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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