Did a little cleaning up with the clone and heal brush.
Curves
Hue/Sat
Saved
Opened in NI and ran it through
Saved as TIFF
Back to CS3
Photomatix soft effect on dup layer reduce opacity to 50%
More healing and fixing of the face
USM
Resize for challenge
USM
History brush on all but the face/eyes set to resize step
Canvas size for border
Resize again
SFW
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Post challenge: Thanks for the GREAT comments and votes, guys! This was really hard to do and the number of times the papers didn't flutter just right was frustrating. Pick em up, drop em... no! Wait! Don't move!! Gahhh!! BLUR!! Again! Dang, that paper went the wrong way! Again! I'm SO glad I have kids to pick up paper :) LOL!
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Place: 12 out of 36 Avg (all users): 6.4211 Avg (commenters): 7.7917 Avg (participants): 6.0000 Avg (non-participants): 6.4533 Views since voting: 2156 Views during voting: 696 Votes: 323 Comments: 25 Favorites: 0
Brilliant image but maybe a bit muted for stock. Boost the contrast on her a smudge and submit to a stock site then watch the money come in. One of my favs so far! 8
I could imagine this as an advertisement for headache-pills or an antistress training. The motion is very well captured, I also like the red blouse, which breaks the greyish-black environment of this burn-out office-life. Motion and emotiveness make this photo live. The only thing I cannot really take is the border. I think the photo would work better without it. (8)
Very creative!!! Really good job on the motion in the paper! First off, I would say that the backdrop should be white, BUT then you wouldn't see the paper as nicely, so i agree with your choice, NICE! (8)
This is an effective comp. The model is perfectly expressive. I like the sense of motion with the falling papers. It's well lit. I just noticed one of her shoes is unbuckled. Stylistic choice?
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