A candid of one of the members of the comic brigades in the 2007 (rain delayed) Philadelphia Mummers Parade.
Post: Converted twice from raw in PSElements 3.0, one with a +1.0 exposured compensation and one with a -1.0. On the lighter for the subject: Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Layer of curves. Pimped his eyes a bit selecting them and doing payer of levels and some dodging and burning. Sharpen. On the darker image: Layer adjustments for hue/saturation and brightness/conrast. As this would be used for the area behind the subject I basically let it only except for healing one dust spot and cloning another. Placed he darker image on the lighter and erased down to the layer for the subject. Merged. Resize. Sharpen.
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