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Message:: [QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 8127641, member: 82549"]Keep in mind that you're the only one who can compare your photo to the actual coin, so you are much more critical of your photos than the rest of us. I guess it's sort of like listening to your recorded voice. I usually have to reduce the saturation on my coin photos and reduce the level to darken them a little if I'm going to get them close to what they look like in hand. Another time I "cheat" is when I'm stitching the front and back together and notice that there's a fiber or speck of something on the surface that I didn't notice when I photographed it. That drives me crazy. Here's an example. When I was processing this coin I noticed some weird fiber on the soldier's cheek that isn't part of the coin, so I used the "clone" tool (in Photoshop) to copy a 4-pixel-wide image of the surface right next to the fiber over the fiber. Here's the original image, much too bright and colorful, with an arrow pointing to the accursed fiber:[ATTACH=full]1415545[/ATTACH] Here's the final image, with reduced levels and reduced saturation and NO FIBER:[ATTACH=full]1415546[/ATTACH]Greek AE9TROAS, Kebren, ca. 412-399 B.C.Obv: Head of satrap to left, wearing tiaraRev: KE MonogramSNG Cop. 261SNG von Aulock 15479mm, 0.7gCNG e506, 985[/QUOTE]