yellow rose

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A very nice rose Sharon, but if it were mine I would sharpen it a bit more.

Love the rain drop and the setting is great.

thanks Jan this is an old one taken with the fuji, but i'll see what magic photoshop can do

Sharon! Try this.

Open image > adjust > Brightness & Contrast > Clarify.

It will give you two copies of the pic, the right hand one will change.
At the bottom you have a dropdown box and a choice of depth of alteration of 1 - 5.

Cheers Jan

The composition is fine but as Jan says a bit out of focus Sharon.

Have you tried manually focusing on the centre of the flower and then taking it?

I would also get a background that doesn't reflect so much light as the one used here is showing creasing and is a little distracting thus spoiling the look of the pic a bit.

Black velvet or velour would be better and well back from the subject. :)

thanks Jan, i'll try that, thats one i didn't know about lol, Stewart this was taken with the old fuji so i can't try it again but i'll bear that in mind in future, thanks

Jan wrote:

Sharon! Try this.

Open image > adjust > Brightness & Contrast > Clarify.

It will give you two copies of the pic, the right hand one will change.
At the bottom you have a dropdown box and a choice of depth of alteration of 1 - 5.

Cheers Jan

Jan is this in pscs2? i don't seem to have the option to clarify :(

couldn't find that option Jan but did a quick smart sharpen and a levels on the black background to make those creases disappear, what do you think now?

Much better - how did you end up sharpening it, Sharon?? I pulled it into Elements and had a quick play with a High Pass filter, set to soft light with a second high pass filter set to vivid light over the top, and it came up a little over sharp, and I didn't have time to fine tune it there and then... this is a nice result overall, especially considering how soft the original was...

Thanks Stuart, i just did a smart sharpen, first i duplicated the image, did the sharpen, clicked on the snapshot icon, made the snapshot the history brush image to use and then clicked on where i had made the duplicate layer, last but not least i used the history brush to go over the flower in the places i thought most imporant and left out the background and leaves as this seems to be where it over sharpens most, for the background i used select colour, feathered it by 25% and used levels to darken to an even black

It looks really great now Sharon, it's amazingly different.