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[Realist]

Well i'm okay at photoshop, i'm not pro. I want to see how you would fix up this otherwise "bad" photo. I'm posting my take on it right below. What i did was make selections in a new layer one for the beach and trees, the other for the sky. I put color on the new layers and blended them into the original layer. Adjusted curves and channels.

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[asnow]

I played around a little in Lightroom and this is what I came up with.

[Marko]

i think your fix is quite good Realist!

[Realist]

i think your fix is quite good Realist!

Thanks Marko!


Asnow: Good work as well! You took out the horrible grayness in the picture.

[Richard]

Here is my attempt:

>Levels
>Curves
>Overlay (Sky grad)
>Overlay (Add some colour)
>Overlay Dodge Burn
>Vignette
>B/W conversion
>Sharpening


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[Realist]

Good job Richard. Got some nice hard light in both pictures.

[tbransco]

Hi folks,

Here's my attempt using LightZone, where I added local contrast, bumped up the "Vibrance" to 40, and sharpened. Hope you like it.

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[edbayani11]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5027/5552418451_a67fbf6c5d_z.jpg

tried it with cs2

[Nic]

I just thought I'd have a go.

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[Mad Aussie]

Figured I might take a moment to tackle this one also.

I didn't do too much other than straighten, duplicate layers and apply a blur then blend together and adjust levels and colour. A bit limited with this small res version.

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