Quote (hestJaevel @ 18 Nov 2009 02:06)
It mainly looks as if you tried with burn/dodge, there is quite a heavy ring of light in the middle - but you cant sharpen something that's out of focus very good as an after effect (my short experience from guides/trying myself)
Didnt use eny burn or dodge, i used high pass filter, partial sharpening, brightness/contrast and curves layers that i removed from some spots and partial blurring. That heavy ring of light is actually heavy black ring on edges and thats called vignetting and can be used for taking out eyes from the edges, in this case more closer for the squirrel