Anyone For A Lightly Tossed Salad??

Oh this took for ever!! I couldn't get the salad to balance, then I struggled wih the lighting and don't get me started on the processing!!

This has been through Affinity (twice) with healing, cloning and inpainting and tidied up in PhotoscapeX with painting areas I'd missed black and inserting the before photo.

Please don't look too closely as this is no where near perfect- I'm still on a very steep learning curve!!

Knackered photographer - Jackie
Theme before and after processing

Why oh why didn't I stick to my original plan to discover what that twirling button does???

[thedarkroom]

@wakelys I'll stick to bananas I think!!

[Richard Sayer]

Forget the pain... look how much you learned.

[Lynda McG]

Haha - maybe it will look good twirled too! It is very good - I must try some time!

[Wendy]

This is so cool!
You dun good, gurl!!

[katy]

beyond impressed! you continue to inspire! Thanks for the BEFORE shot too!

fun tags!

[Walks @ 7]

I completely admire your diligence. It turned out so very cool!

[Jacqueline]

Super cool! You have set the bar very high for the rest of us 😉

[KoalaGardens🐨]

WOW

[Susan Wakely]

Crazy mixed salad, fab effect. I dreamt that I did something similar with carrots last night.

[Granagringa]

That is unbelievable...I thought this was a shot of a gazillion images put together, but actually mounting the salad ...holy lettuce leaves!!!

[Sylvia]

So cool, fab composite.

[JackieR]

@sprphotos thank you
@granagringa two is my limit Madeline!
@wakelys I tried carrot
@koalagardens He
@jacqbb you're all cleverer than me
@joysabin it's ok!! I can see the flaws
@grammyn glad you read them
@farmreporter thank you ma'am
@lyndamcg I'll play with it one day
@vignouse but I fear I won't remember the lessons Richard

[Esther Rosenberg]

I am glad you put in the small pre shot. I was wondering how someone is even getting this done. You are really getting good at this editing.

[Shutterbug]

Amazing! Awesome! I need more superlatives. I think this is terrifically well done.

[Graeme Stevens]

very cool, nicely done

[Kathy]

OMG! This is excellent! I really like that you included the "before" photo.

[aikiuser (jenn)]

Well done!!

[JackieR]

@aikiuser thank you
@randystreat it's part of the challenge ) first one I uploaded was wrong one do glad @scrivna put in option to change photo!)
@graemestevens most kind
@shutterbug49 it could be improve
@dutchothotmailcom but it takes so long to do!!

[Anja]

Wow!

[Gavin.J]

Fantastic effort, well done, looks great. 🙏📷👍