I had to use manual focus to stop the lens focussing on the laundry basket. (It's a laundry basket).
8 bit
Polygonal marquee tool to define the inside of the border.
Brush - 280(?) points - black - 65% oppacity for the border.
Crop with rotating handles to straighten the thing up a bit.
USM 400, 0.8, 0
Resize via reduction to 72 dpi
Neat image
Up saturation
Up contrast
clone sensor dust
Hue/sat up green down magenta
Resize (up!) from 599 to 640
Sharpen edges
Make cup of tea, save for web, etc.
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Very nice of you to provide the graphical divisions to aid the voters. :-) Good challenge entry, but I much prefer the one you didn't enter (though I understand it was beyond basic.)
This would be greatly improved by cropping out the light fixture at the top. Also, the horizontal lines extending through the border doesn't add to the image.
Nice photo, but I think your border actually takes away from the photo in a couple of ways. It looks like you are trying to use the border to make it fit the thirds challenge (which may not be the case, but that is what it looks like). And also your overlaps into the border and can still be seen.
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