LAB-AB-blur, NeatImage, Sharpening

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Photo Information
Copyright: Grzegorz Wieczorek (red45) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-12
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Edited by: Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 257 W: 185 N: 215] (710)
Edited Image Upload Date: 2005-12-20 14:00:31
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon Powershot S2-IS
Exposure: 4.5, 1/80 seconds
Workshop Note
Purpose: To fix the chromatic aberration (coloured fringes), reduce noise, and bring out a bit more detail.

How? Converted to LAB mode, selected A-channel applied GaussianBlur 4px, repeated with B-channel. Also reduces colour noise.

Loaded into NeatImage, used the top right hand area to create a noise profile. Filtered.

Sharpened using USM three passes on L channel: (10% 20px 0) (40% 1.2px 0) (20% 0.8px 0). Faded to 45% - could have used lower values, but I have that setup as an Action.

Ran a high-pass Sharpen: NewLayerViaCopy, HighPass 10px. Merge HardLight. (30%)

Finally if there were any fringes remaining, used CloneTool in Color mode to mop them up :)

I hope you like it!
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