Abqorian Planet

I got this task from my friend. She needs the image for her journal publication, but the committee want a more 'clear' picture instead of the actual picture taken from her lab's machine (dunno the name, she's studying some chemical thing).

At the end I agree to help, but I didn't promise I could clean it up because the background seem very mesh-up! With gradation of color there and here, it looks very hard to clean.

Well, after several trial I finally able to clean it. In case I would forget how to do it, here are the documentation.

1) Open the picture in Photoshop; here is the original