two photos from the same capture created from raw were layered
layer masks were used to isolate the top flame from the bottle
unsharp mask on both layers
tone mapx2 on bottom layer
layer mask tone mapped layer to expose darker background of original bottom
merge visible layers
rotate
crop
cloned out sensor dust and hot pixels
bri-cont
used three layers of different levels of blurriness with layer masks to smooth out the noise
scale to 720px
healing and clone tool to remove pixel dust and minor black spots
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