process raw file
adj levels contrat/brightestness, and color/hue
made a layer of background applied contrast/brighness and applied blur
made a new layer and applied unsharp mask
not a great photo just a cute idea i had at the last minute
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Funny picture and title. This really looks sharpened, though, a lot. The direct flash seems a little too harsh. Maybe that's what I'm seeing with the rest of the shot. It just seems a little too edgy. If you didn't use bounce flash, that would be a suggestion. I'm definitely no flash expert, but if it was direct and not bounce, I think a bounce might give the screen some more contrast, too, which might be a good thing. I really like the way the trackball came out, it looks like it's floating or 3d or something really dimensional. Oh, one other thing, and this is really picky, but I would have capitalized the "C" in Challenges if you're referring to DPC.