Tomato Photo Recipe

Here are the steps, (not in order) that I did to create the finished photo.

Before:  As shot with my Sony A 200, underexposed by one f-stop.

After:

• Straighten
• Crop
• Adjust levels and color
• Adjust sharpness
• Apply Corel's "Early Color" photo effect
• Reduce saturation of parts of the background and foreground
• Fill bottom right corner using clone tool
• Apply Corel's "Albumen Photo Frame" effect
• Clean up a few distracting spots

It's not a lot of steps but it took a fairly long time because I try out several degrees of adjustment each step of the way.  

I'm planning on creating some cards from some of my shots.  This one is a candidate, no doubt.  I'm very pleased with how it turned out, and will post it on my Flickr page in the Corel group as well.