See if this works all help appreciated [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
second try @ a pic [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
that would be the torii gate, and yes it worked. very nice. glad you will now be posting images to the community.
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another try resizing is a trial and error it seems [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
same pic different settings [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
I'm not familiar with Faststone so I can't help you much there... I use Photoshop for mine. The last one was definitely the best one though.
trying again to see if I can get the sharpness [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
open for suggestions as to editing and anything else [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
another editing attempt [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]