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Much too heavy on your black leveling. A lot of things that should be grey turned black and it makes the page look extremely sharp
https://puu.sh/C3kEf/cd464a9abc.png
Heres the raw without your level layer,
https://puu.sh/C3kEs/c7cbdbc8ae.png
You destroyed the lines with your leveling ...

Big improvement from the first time around. You got away from the over filtering which was your main detraction.

There are two things that you need to work on. Looking at your black/grey transitions to make sure they are not getting leveled out such as on page 5
https://puu.sh/BXxb2/17339f9a27 ...

Overall, very good improvement from your last submission. Thank you for toning down the filtering a bit but there's still a little way to go.

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https://puu.sh/BWVgK/342be09432.png
https://puu.sh/BWViT/e57fe442e7.png

Look at the difference between those two pictures. One of them is from ...

Hey, I'm currently at work so I haven't looked at your next attempt yet, but I will when I get home.

To answer your question, dusting is the process of using the burn tool and the Dodge tool to remove any specks of "dirt" from the page. These will always be found on the page and if you level enough ...

Hi, My name is Leviathan and I am a cleaner here at DT. I would like to start by saying that if you haven't cleaned anything before you have shown a great foundation to learn from. Some applicants get to where you are now after 3 or 4 attempts.

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Good job keeping everything straight on the ...

Hey!

Thank you again for going through the pages for me with exactly what I could do to improve. After playing with surface blur I am really enjoying using it and am getting away from Denoise. That bubble cleaning action was really cool and I never thought of it though I need to play with it so it ...

Hey,

Thank you very much for taking the time to point out what I missed on my pages. I really appreciate it.
On page 3 I was hoping you could make an example on the page so I could better understand what exactly you wanted changed. I understand what jpeg artifacts are and how they are generally ...

Hello, I'm Leviathan.

I did cleaning in the past for a group but it was self directed learning and had to do cleaning and redraws. I didn't submit a redraw test as I still have a long way to go before I'm confident enough to apply for redrawing, I did it out of necessity at the time.

I'm looking ...