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Old November 23rd, 2017, 12:22 AM   #27
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I have played around with PaintShopPro to find a setting would recover a bit of that dulled color, and so far the best results are using "Vibrancy" under Hue+Saturation. With a value of 60% the above was produced, from the original seen earlier.
The damage done by the plastic cover as a reflective surface (sometimes made worse by the camera flash) is almost impossible to undo. I like to bring down the washed out highlights with the photoshop function image->adjust->shadows/highlights. Then leave the shadow amount empty and use 25% for the highlights. My second and last step would be the levels function to make the blacks black again. Here's what these simple two steps do to the image above:

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