Sci, did you rebalance the color? Othe orig looks like it had better color contrast. This one looks a little over-exposed/washed out.

I kinda noticed that too but he did remove the stuff on the bottom and top.

Theres like another version of this but bigger and better looking, same with a Nanoha version. Problem is when I tried to resize it to the size of a wallpaper I can use (1920x1200), it's either too small vertically or too big horizontally when keeping the aspect ratio. Of course it'd look ugly if I didn't keep the ratio.

Can you link those? I'll see if I can resize/crop/edit them to a decent res.

I can post them on here, since they don't really violate anything I guess.

I only shifted gamma about 1.3 (1 being no change) because it seemed to pale in places, though I think that was when I was outside so lighting was erratic. The borders were completely redone and the noise is filtered slightly.
Bigger versions would be easier to work, they always are.

Oh god, I can see 3 different Kanade. :o

Anyway, I hate these black bars.
They have the power to f*ck all good wallpapers.

Don't worry, the bigger/different versions have a bit more to it, probably cause their the actual originals, which I'll be posting in a few minutes.