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<p>[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 603655, member: 7957"]First off, by your definition, I believe they are all juiced. "...intentionally altered (juiced) the colors of the image in an attempt to increase financial gain." I am positive that each picture was purposely taken to bring out the colors. They're goal is to sell colorful coins. They would be fools to take pictures that did anything that flattened or deadened the colors. Just setting my camera on "vivid" or a hyped "custom" as opposed to "neutral" would accomplish most the differences you are seeing.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said, I played with the pix using GIMP. Just using the saturation, here is the number I had to use to turn the seller's pix into an approximation of your pix. Granted, this is an approximation, but it is better than a SWAG.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. -30</p><p>2. -30</p><p>3. -50</p><p>4. -40</p><p>5. -30</p><p>6. -70</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion would be that #3 and #6 went too far for sure. I will let you draw your own conclusions for the rest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 603655, member: 7957"]First off, by your definition, I believe they are all juiced. "...intentionally altered (juiced) the colors of the image in an attempt to increase financial gain." I am positive that each picture was purposely taken to bring out the colors. They're goal is to sell colorful coins. They would be fools to take pictures that did anything that flattened or deadened the colors. Just setting my camera on "vivid" or a hyped "custom" as opposed to "neutral" would accomplish most the differences you are seeing. All that being said, I played with the pix using GIMP. Just using the saturation, here is the number I had to use to turn the seller's pix into an approximation of your pix. Granted, this is an approximation, but it is better than a SWAG. 1. -30 2. -30 3. -50 4. -40 5. -30 6. -70 My opinion would be that #3 and #6 went too far for sure. I will let you draw your own conclusions for the rest.[/QUOTE]
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