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Hungry fellow (18)
PerR Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 21 W: 2 N: 16] (99)
Photo taken through our kitchen window.
This bird, Nötskrika in Swedish, was sitting on the snow under our bird feeder. He/she is to big for the feeder. But there was enough seeds on the snow that other birds had thrown out so hopefully he wasn't hungry all day.


Croped
Sharpened 1 step
Increased light a bit
Resized for post
Framed

Per
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PerR Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 21 W: 2 N: 16] (99)
Photoshop - contrast and saturation
Edited by:peter_stoeckl Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1629 W: 287 N: 3646] (10219)
Photoshop Elements

Trying to get more color saturation and contrasts for the bird to make it look even more lively and less distant.

1. Black border removed.
2. Colour saturation Blue reduced - 12 (all over, but mainly for the BG)
3. Colour saturation Red, Yellow increased.
4. Colour saturation Blue and Cyan selectively increased on bird only.
5. Contrast + 12 and brightness + 12 selectively on bird. (Increasing contrast and adding brightness all over would have "burned" the white snow in the foreground.)

Hope you enjoy the result. Thanks and regards.
Peter