This is a photo that I just took outside of some petals from a bunch of grouped Daffodil plants. I thought it looked pretty neat:

^Click to see full size^

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Good.  
 
adjust the color map and some effects, it will be good for a wallpaper.

Yes, it's a pretty neat picture! Good job.

Thanks guys! I wasn't thinking of enhancing it or anything, but I could give it a shot!

EDIT: Okay, so I did some color modifications to it in iPhoto:

I'm debating to upload some of the other pictures that I took that day...

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It's nice here is a lil tip (if already known well then im wasteing my time) but try expreimenting with curves in photoshop... And possibly the levels first

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The best way to achieve the right contrast between shadows and highlights and general lighting is to go to Image>>Adjustment>>Levels.

Move the black slider right to around where the graph REALLY starts to rise. Do the same for white, moving it to the left. For the grey slider, it's normally best to leave it where it is, unless you want to change the overall intensity of the light.

Curves can be helpful, too, as they are more flexible with unlimited number of plots and patterns, but I've never really felt the urge to use them.

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I've been wanting to learn using Photoshop to enhance them. But I'm clueless on the curves pallete, etc. I'll be sure to explore them.

I may try Aperture as well.

The only thing that I don't want to do is edit and enhance the pictures so much, that there isn't as much of a resemblance of the original. My grandpa did that with a picture a few years ago, it didn't even look the same. I really like slightly enhanced, or not enhanced at all.

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Ill most on one of mine, (hopefully by monday)
 
Have you tryed doing the 'spines' like you would to a tux's feet ( yhe gradient and area)

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I think you posted that in the wrong topic...

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I think he means adding similar effects to the petals, as you would to a tux's feet... hard to understand I'm sure...

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The only effects on a tux's feet are 1) An orange to yellow radial gradient for the 3D effect; and 2) A Transparent to white gradient for the shine
 
I don't think either would be useful in this case ...

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Me neither, I just translate

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I took some new pics of the same thing today. Now there is a lot of buds and stuff
 
I'll be sure to put those up as well.

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Well, what i actually ment was something like his

exept longer.

P.s sorry on a tinytux, Sorry for any inconvenience

EDIT:  Here is a quick example of what i meant by the curves

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As I said though, I don't want to make huge changes to the images. They are of nature, and I feel the pics should be as natural as possible. The first image you did just is too changed for my liking...
 
And I also don't really like the way the highlights look, and I don't want to add anything.

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Ok, it was just a suggestion!

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