My Photoshop challenge for ya

[NateS]

Here's my take. Basically it's seperate color control points on the sky and water. Then adjusted the curves on the rocks (selection control point), then added a bunch of tonal contrast (via Nik Color Efex Pro). All done in Capture NX2 on the jpeg.

 

[terryc967]

here is what I came up with

 

[UUilliam]

A tropical interpretation ...

oh wow... you so need to share how you did that...

 

[musicaleCA]

Nate: How'd you much compression did you give that poor image? There's JPEG artifacting, and it's especially visible in the water by the shoreline. >.< (That or Capture NX craps it's pants, so-to-speak, when resaving JPEG's faster than Adobe's compression algorithms.)

 

[Peano]

oh wow... you so need to share how you did that...

The main color changes were made in these five layers. You can see from the masks which parts of the image the various layers were affecting.

 

[manaheim]

You guys are putting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more work into those than I did.

I think I get the prize for best result with least effort.

 

[invisible]

Thanks again everybody for participating. Of course there are no winners and losers here. Still, I wanted to tell you that for my website I've chosen the following edits:

Photo #1: the edit provided by musicaleCA

Photo #2: an edit provided by someone from another forum

Thank you very much everybody for helping me out!

 

[mpasq66]

Beleive me, I'm new and I know it sucks !

As is this one:

My sat.'s seem to be different from one program to another...

 

[thekyle]

 

[artizenhdr]

Sorry guys i didn't use Photoshop but here are my results.

Steps

1. Using the small source (800x531) file loaded into Artizen HDR.
2. Using the Dramatic Tone Mapping Filter i exposed the darker areas.
3. Then finally used the Color Filter adjust Saturation, Red Hue, Green Hue and Teal Hue as well as tweaked the Temp of the photo to be a bit more afternoony

So here is my result.
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