Pysanka Artist Loc: Rochester, NY

Thanks!

Howard5252 Loc: New York / Florida (now)

Not bad; you just should have been closer originally - the sharpness would have been better.

Pysanka Artist Loc: Rochester, NY

Thank you!

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

On my computer the color on your original is perfect. For a long time I was always making skin to red or over saturated. On this one as you made your adjustments it changed skin and the grass and for me became unrealistic.
I am not familiar with your software, I used Photoshop CC. I decided to work on this one just to see if I could do as good as you did removing the hose. Yours looked so good I had to give it a try. After I got that done using the cloning tool I decided to go all the way with other edits to see what I could get. I opened up shadows over all. I added another layer and opened up shadows some more over individual faces. I then tried to add sharpness using High pass filter with a setting of 1.0 and set the layer to Soft Light. This layer added too much harness over all so I added a mask and applied the sharpness to just eyes, mouths and women's hair. For me this picture now looks a bit more natural. Interested to see if you feel the same way.

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Pysanka Artist Loc: Rochester, NY

Jim-Pops --

Thanks for taking the time to work on my image. Yes, your image does look more natural and realistic. It looks just as it was on that day -- it was overcast and a tad dreary. And you removed the mystery fingers!