Hand Lake

[cbolstad]

First post here.

Before


With Picasa
Increased Saturation, Highlights, Shadows, Fill Light, Added a Graduated Tint, Sharpen.

With GIMP
Cloned out flag and boat lift from neighbors dock.

After


Let me know what you think.

Chris

[jojonac]

Very nice work, it really brought out the colors.

[Jae]

Very nice, I like the inhanced colors here.

[tchaap]

Spectacular...what a difference a few clicks make!

TC

[Lorimotl]

I like it! I like how the reflections in the water pop in the edited version. Great job!

[cbolstad]

I was afraid I had overdone the saturation. I originally did this on my laptop (which has a horrible monitor), and when I looked at it on a different monitor I had to back off the saturation so it didn't glow in the dark:-)

Chris

[zespri]

I just repeated all of your steps on a similar photo someone sent me tonight of a river and bank - it came out beautifully. I often use picasa for fill light, cropping, red eye etc, but have never used it as much as this. I have a whole new respect for it!

[Vash]

I like the overall result except the top of the sky. It looks a bit purple to me. It could be my monitor though.

[Andreas]

I like the end result very much, except for the sky that is a tad bit oversaturated for my taste. The foreground however looks amazing.

Good job!

Andreas

[cbolstad]

I'm not crazy about the purple either. If you look in the before pic, there is a thin band of clouds at the top of the pic which, because it was sunset, have a pink tint to them. I tried using a graduated tint to make them disappear but ended up instead with the purple band in the sky. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm open:-)

Chris