I took the image and in PSE3 I used the SHadows and Highlights to darken ad give some contrast. The selelcted the whole thing and gaussion blurred it Trasnfered over to PSP8 and pasted both to each other and erased over the background.Thats my fast way of doing it.I never spent the time on edges or anything, but just was seeing if having it darker and more blurred would be more suitable. Took about 40 seconds to do that.

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