Isaac's entree -- assorted pasta shapes with cheese melted onto it. I wanted to get a shot with the cheese strands stretched out. Used the close-up lens to fill the frame with pasta from a few inches away.
-Handheld, Manual mode
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-A little burning-in on one of the highlights
-Crop from bottom to square
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 165KB
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This looks tasty. I kind of like how the grain gives this an old cookbook look, but it doesn't seem right to have the yellow speckles in the top right. 6