Rose

[Michelle Jones]

This is from a bunch of roses that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Hope you like it. Comments are always welcome.
http://www.missyspixelplace.com/sspryte/3/imgOrig/pinky_rose.jpg

I set the urls between

to let them appear here. Asher

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

This is from a bunch of roses that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Hope you like it. Comments are always welcome.
http://www.missyspixelplace.com/sspryte/3/imgOrig/pinky_rose.jpg

Not bad (both image, and quality of the rose after a couple of weeks no less), but there's some room for improvement. Personally I'd have cropped (given the result) the image to a portrait layout, just cropping the curling edges of the petals in the left and right background. That would also lose the dark area on the bottom-left which now asks too much attention. It then could also use a bit more sharpening to bring the 'fabric' to life.

Bart

 

[nicolas claris]

I tend to agree with Bart:

Though the attempt for sharpening shows that the original image was not that sharp/detailed (lens blurring?), despite my tries in this regard, I couldn't get a better sharpened/textured of the image, I'm sure Bart should give it a try!

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

I tend to agree with Bart:

like this?

Yes, although I envisoned it even tighter on the right.

Though the attempt for sharpening shows that the original image was not that sharp/detailed (lens blurring?), despite my tries in this regard, I couldn't get a better sharpened/textured of the image, I'm sure Bart should give it a try!

Well, there is a lack of sharpness at the original size and a JPEG isn't the best start for manipulation. This is what I could extract without too much experimentation and without prior knowledge of the camera.

I initially even cropped tighter, totally losing the lower righthand side vertical petal edge, and I could have applied noise reduction, but then we're not going for the Nobel price on this one. When the image is resampled to 800 pixels high and then sharpened, things look much nicer on screen (here I kept the original size for comparison though).

Bart

 

[Michelle Jones]

Ok here is what I came up with.....I recropped it and sharpened it a bit more.

Michelle

 

[Asher Kelman]

In order to get off gto a clean start with the best file, please go to the new thread here .

Asher