Hmmm....well set the timer and shot. The crack refers to the knuckles and not me....well not yet....depends on how this does. LOL!
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Camera raw adjustmens in PSElements 6.0.
Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue saturation.
Adjust sharpness.
Spot edit dust and a distraction or two on a cuticle and some hot spots in the background.
New layer of levels and a layer of gradient map converting to black and white.
Open the levels dialog and adjusted each of the RGB channels.
Flatten.
New Layer, Topaz adjust, dramatic preset, merged down, normal blend mode 51% opacity.
Crop, crop, crop.
Resize.
USM.
Be nice. It's number 700.
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