Johns Red flanked Bluetail

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Altho John's photo was more than good considering the conditions it was taken in I thought the rarity of the bird and his efforts to get it deserved a little play in photoshop - I hope you don't mind John - unfortunately at the last minute I forgot to lighten in curves as stuff on the web always seems to display darker than on my machine. To achieve the result a Fade Correct and a Sharpen More or Unsharp Mask would do (its difficult for me to be sure how much as this was working on a very small pic lifted off the web) the original would give better results. Being me I carried on and removed the distracting branch and a nasty bright reflection ..........





The third one is lightened in curves but its still not as bright as on my machine - but hopefully it illustrates what I'm on about?! Err its not meant to be gospel as I can see places where if I was working properly on an original I would have been a bit more careful to blend in - but hopefully it shows what can be done if you have a photograph of something you really want to see reproduced as good as poss?

Pauline