I used Neat Image free to reduce noise in the BG, so it will not disturb when sharpening.
Shadows and highlights to lower the light on the straw.
Now this first of sharpening should be done before resizing the image (with a higher pix value) for good results, this way it becomes to hard.
Used USM 0.3 200 %
Now this other one after resizing
Again USM 0.2 250%
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