saving a dark pic

[Nathan S]

This is not a photo i took so i hope it is ok to post my editing on it.

for this photo i used 3 layers, one for foreground midground and background.
For background i used curves to bring out the colors and light also i used saturation to help with the color a bit. Then masked out mid and foreground.
Mid ground i used curves also then masked back and foreground.
For the guy and fish i used curves,saturation,layers,screen blending mode,gaussian blur and masked the rest of the pic. Flattened the image together and i was done. Hope you all like it

Thank you for the advice,i have taken this picture back into the shop and worked on the sky.

[charmayne]

Your after shot is much better. I just find that the sky is very light, looks almost overexposed.

[dinez UK]

probably, next time, try to mask the clouds as well and maybe reduced the opacity...to taste.

[charmayne]

Big improvement on the sky. What a difference between the two photos. I like.

[Samanax]

Big improvement over the original dark image, but the water and sky look too purple to me.

I'd straighten the horizon too.

[charmayne]

Mmmmmm, sky and water dont look purple on my screen.....colours look good.

[trelaflip]

huge difference. good work!

[PowerPix]

Big improvement. I hope you got permission to tweak and post from the owner, though.

[kencaleno]

Ctrl+J
Select soft light for layer mode
Flatten and save

Regards, Ken

[fletch]

Originally Posted by kencaleno

Ctrl+J
Select soft light for layer mode
Flatten and save

Regards, Ken

May I ask why?