Paint Shop Pro X
- brightness & contrast : histogram (1,2,245)
- brightness & contrast : b/c (5,5)
- duplicate bg to new layer
- brightness & contrast : clarify +20
- set layer opacity to 14%
- merge all layers
- smart photo fix (9,-10,0,10,78,1,3)
- noise reduction : salt & pepper (3,3)
- brightness & contrast : hms (0,0,-10)
- clone out couple of specks on ball
- rotate left .50
- crop
- resize
- usm (.35,100,10) +luminance
- borders
- save as jpg
The "@" symbol was a surprise discovery and not originally intentional. I was messing around with a chinese checkers board and various game pieces. The wood balls were not all nice perfect circles. Some were a little oblong, some had flaws in the finish, etc... As I was looking these over I noticed a few had some circles on the end, from the production process I guess. Figured this would add a nice twist - circles on a sphere with circles on the bg.
See what happens. :D
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