Decided to stay well within Advanced Rules. I want to see if the others are going to kill themselves over-processing images. Hoping the photography purists will save me ;-)
Just a bit of cloning for dust and a dead pixel or two.
Traced the rose with the burn tool.
Saturation.
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Clear and crisp. A Valentine classic. My one nitpick would maybe have a white background- the pink and red don't go together as the red is more of an orangy fire engine and the pink is more raspberry.