Kitty in boots

[temetvince]

To start with, I totally forgot to denoise this photograph. Also, I think the photo probably needs to be rotated slightly. Finally, the both images were resized and converted to rgb from adobe 1998 for uploading to the internet.

I'm sure there still is work that needs to be done as I am far, far, far from an expert. I named this photo puss in boots (a pun off of the Shrek character) but I didn't put that in the subject title for fear of it looking like a troll post.

Ok, here's what I did:
Increased contrast by 100.
Played with levels, setting black, grey, and white points with the eyedroppers and increasing the grey slider to 1.28.
Increased Vibrance to +50 and Saturation to +5.
Created a new exposure layer, and set these settings:
Exposure: +0.23
Offset: -0.0131
Gamma Correction: 0.95
Then I sharpened the photograph.

Here's a bigger version: Portfolio - temet vince | SmugMug