Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
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@Tim 
the tree is for you! I like the trees to.
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Red squirrels are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
@Zbyma72age I like the brighter take. However, it appears that the cloning has created some artifacts…
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I knkow you shot the tree especially but I had to crop to the main subject. Using RT and gimp - My first time cropping in RT too
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Very nice capture, thanks for sharing 
! Had a lot of fun editing this one. A couple of weeks ago I discovered colour calibration in basic channel mixer mode is a great tool to play with the colours. Especially for getting green-red contrast it works wonders for me. Also smoothing out the bokeh with DorS with the surface blur template and using harmonic mean as the blending mode is a nice trick I learned on some playraw.
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Completely forgot while doing my first edit that there’s a red squirrel coaster right here on my desk.
Forgot about this too. Good for separation in this image.
Additional ‘colourful, blurry background, raised black level’ editing on top of my original:
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Here is my take with ART and AI masks. Basically, a background blur and exposure reduction, plus some shadow lifting and color work.
As discussed before, with AI masks used in the edit, the proper way is to zip them up, so here is the ZIP file containing them and the ARP profile:
DSCF110418.sidecars.zip (131.4 KB)
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