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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 505188, member: 15309"]I agree Mike but that is much easier said than done, especially with toned coins. I have gotten much better and plan to steadily improve now that I have Mark Goodman's book. I now judge my photographic proficiency by how much my photoshop procedure changes the look of the photo. Ideally, you should be able to take a photo, complete the steps above, and see very little change.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is funny that this was one of the posts that was in the Cointalk HOF before it got wiped clean and now it has been nominated again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to say for the record that I am not a proponent of manually adjusting color settings in photoshop in order to juice photos. This method only adjusts the color and contrast according to what the software thinks it is supposed to look like. It works well for me to get my photos to look like the actual coin. Once I can achieve that without photoshop, I will be very happy indeed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 505188, member: 15309"]I agree Mike but that is much easier said than done, especially with toned coins. I have gotten much better and plan to steadily improve now that I have Mark Goodman's book. I now judge my photographic proficiency by how much my photoshop procedure changes the look of the photo. Ideally, you should be able to take a photo, complete the steps above, and see very little change. It is funny that this was one of the posts that was in the Cointalk HOF before it got wiped clean and now it has been nominated again. I would like to say for the record that I am not a proponent of manually adjusting color settings in photoshop in order to juice photos. This method only adjusts the color and contrast according to what the software thinks it is supposed to look like. It works well for me to get my photos to look like the actual coin. Once I can achieve that without photoshop, I will be very happy indeed.[/QUOTE]
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