Photoshop Retouch Effect

[ChromeKaldra]

I've been building decks via regular folders on my computer, with copies of files representing dupicates. I've been using the MWS scans obviously. However, i pull the scans from magiccards.info, and some of the scans aren't always so great, particularly promos. I've seen better re-scans of them on here, so it seems the site admin doesn't have the time to update.

Regardless, i noticed that the FTV:Exiled scans are justifiably different from non-foil. I took it upon myself to replicate non-foil MWS proxies for these cards. I know there's a strict no-fakes policy around here, but i wanted to share a retouch method i came across while doing this.

Particularly for the art of a card, sometimes it appears faded out, lacks 'body', and its not something auto-tone/contrast/color can fix. So, consider the following image:

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For what its worth, i thought i'd share this.

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