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Garden Beautification 101
Garden Beautification 101
jomari


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Nonsense (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2011 Challenges
Camera: Canon Power Shot SX10 IS
Location: Ballarat, Vic. Australia
Date: Oct 4, 2011
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/160
Date Uploaded: Oct 6, 2011

 This sign doesn't exactly enhance this garden, which is the labor of love of a nice friendly guy. It used to be low down on the outside of his front brick fence, but for some reason now has pride of place and added barbed wire.

Open PSCS3
Crop
Duplicate layer
Topaz Adjust4> Spicify
Rectangular marquee select sign board
Cut pixels
Brightness/contrast
Topaz Detail
Background layer
Brightness/contrast
Flatten
Image size
Duplicate layer
Stroke border
Flatten
Duplicate layer
Sharpen
Cut pixels and erase all but sign and wire
Erase 50% over sign
Flatten
Sfw
Sfw

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 75
Avg (all users): 5.1429
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9429
Avg (non-participants): 5.2338
Views since voting: 700
Views during voting: 290
Votes: 112
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/13/2025 05:05:50 AM
Absolutely! 99.9999999% :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/07/2011 09:51:59 AM
a garden, the kind you find in almost all location. It's quite reasonable from different perspectives, IMO (won't vote here)
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 10/07/2011 08:46:09 AM
It is nonsense to spell "feces" the old school latin way, with an "a" like "faeries."
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