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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 4564968, member: 9270&quot;][USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Great images.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I&#039;m not a professional photographer nor do I aspire to be one.</p><p>I just want an image that shows what my coin looks like.</p><p>I know that many (most?) of my images don&#039;t accurately show what my coins look like in hand.</p><p>Where I miss is mostly toning and overall impression.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. I would like to see what you can do with a 19th century coin in a grade of F or VF with all its circulation characteristics.</p><p>Coins of the grade that many of us happily include in our collections.</p><p>Those are the type of many of the coins in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use Photoshop Elements for cropping and resizing my images.</p><p>I gave up trying to get the images to look like what they do in hand.</p><p>I&#039;ve got no training for that and no inherent nor artistic sense of how to apply the various capabilities of Photoshop.</p><p>My abilities seem to be limited to:</p><p>-- take an image</p><p>-- crop</p><p>-- resize</p><p>-- save</p><p>-- repeat on the next coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d post some of my images but you wouldn&#039;t be able to compare to what the coin really looks like, i.e., how my image changed the look of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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