Dried Fruits

[TacoChellz]

HI . This is my first post on this board, so here goes...

Before

After

Fist I opened it in Adobe's Camera Raw and added a little fill light. Then I opened it in Photoshop and cropped it. Next was a color balance adjustment layer to just make the colors look better. After that, the main change was a curves adjustment layer. For this, I raised the red in the highlights and dropped reds in the shadows. Same for Green. Blue was the opposite: dropped it in the highlights and raised it in the shadows. Next, I added a gradient map adjustment layer (the blue to orange one), set the layer to soft light and dropped its opacity to 25%. Border was the finishing touch.

Hope you like it. Please let me know what you think.

[eleanor06]

Nice job on color, and great pic overall....But,
One thing is distracting to me. When I look at the main focal point my eye's are drawn to the intense brightness in the top left. I would maybe try to tone that area down.
Just my 2cents, but good job !

BIRD

[TacoChellz]

Thank you. And thanks for the input as well. I'll try another version when I have time and darken that a bit.