This has been filtered when it was completely unnecessary to do so. Looks like a light gaussian blur pass was done on the entire image.

Which begs a question. Should non-moderator users be more aggressive about flagging fixes that they feel are bad and should be deleted? It seems like there are more and more posts tagged as fixed that not worthy of being called that lately.

Xcalibur said:
Which begs a question. Should non-moderator users be more aggressive about flagging fixes that they feel are bad and should be deleted? It seems like there are more and more posts tagged as fixed that not worthy of being called that lately.

Please do.

Xcalibur said:
a light gaussian blur

it's apparently a sharpen filter.

fireattack said:
it's apparently a sharpen filter.

If you look at places like the shading on the socks the transition has been averaged almost like what a surface blur filter would do. That and it has this overall look like it was blurred and then re-sharpened. The unfixed image looked great already if you ask me it just needed the crease removed.

Xcalibur said:
If you look at places like the shading on the socks the transition has been averaged almost like what a surface blur filter would do. That and it has this overall look like it was blurred and then re-sharpened. The unfixed image looked great already if you ask me it just needed the crease removed.

I just talk about it technically. Surface blur may applied, but not gauss blur.