Open RAW in DPP
Adjust Brightness
Convert to JPEG
Open in CS3
Lots of healing and cloning on the candy to clean it up and make it perfect on a new layer.
Curves Adjustment layer
Channel Mixer Adjustment layer Monochrome, red to black and green and blue for brightness of whites, adjust mode to screen, opacity to 26%
Some smudging on the candy to make it smoother, reduce layer opacity to 50%
New Layer converted to B&W. Made reds really black, changed blending mode to multiply opacity to 50%
Flattened all
USM @ 150, 1.5, 2
Resize for challenge
GB @ 1px use fade command to 5%
USM @ 50, .5, 0
History brush set to resize on everything but the canes
Canvas size to add border
Resize again for challenge
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