Sea Shore, Sea Shore...appeal me more

[nikhildesai]

Tks JitterJive, tks that you noticed the udpate made to the color of the water.

I was pretty sure that when the sky is blue, it is obvious the color of the sky has to reflect in the water. I made sure that I matched the color of the water with the color of the sky, but a bit darker than the sky...'cos when we notice the sea, the sea looks darker than the sky.

[Dayton-G]

The wave is distracting me for some reason and I can't see why. Is it to bright?

Anyways, about the actual difference. The new sky look amazing!
Great job

Dayton.

[nikhildesai]

The wave is indeed a bit distracting. There was not much I could do except for change it using photoshop. I never wanted to change it. However, a good catch Dayton. Tks for stopping by giving this a peek

[windrider86]

This really isnt the place for asking for critique (or giving it). The before and after section is for posting pieces you have improved upon and then tell us how you did it.
Can you tell us step by step what you did to add the new sky in please? and thank you

[JohnnyDolce]

Great job, I really enjoyed this one.

[nikhildesai]

I shall post the link to the tutorial windrider.

[J.Mitchell-Christian]

Great skyswap! For the hills (land) you might get away with adaptive exposure (in PS it's under image/adjustments/shadow-highlight) pull up your shadows a bit, and add a little contrast to get the effect that the sun is out. Then once you have everything all sunnied up you can apply a bit of a cooling filter, just to get all the colors to have the aprox. the same temperature. One of the better skyswaps I've seen though.