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Salmon
23rd of October 2007 (Tue), 18:50
Second attempt using Photoshop. This capture was underexposed. I reduced the time it took by half to post edit this pic. If you can recommend any edits you would have made i would be happy to know about them. Thanks for viewing.
dancad
23rd of October 2007 (Tue), 19:09
Hey Rick, the most obvious recommendation I can make is to level the horizon. Use the measure tool (located with the eyedropper tool) to draw a line parallel to the virtual "tilted horizon". Then go to Image >Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary..voila! Your image is now level. All that is left is to crop...
busbyea
23rd of October 2007 (Tue), 19:36
Nice work Rick.You catch on fast...

Maybe try a tad bit more sharpening. I did a quick Smart Sharpen at .2 and around 100...you could probably push that a bit more too...
Salmon
24th of October 2007 (Wed), 19:33
Hey Rick, the most obvious recommendation I can make is to level the horizon. Use the measure tool (located with the eyedropper tool) to draw a line parallel to the virtual "tilted horizon". Then go to Image >Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary..voila! Your image is now level. All that is left is to crop...
Thanks Dan, I followed your advise and made the change as best i could. Marc also pointed this out but I forgot where to find the measure tool and my help feature is not working. I also re-cropped and I went a lot further with the crop this time.

Nice work Rick.You catch on fast...

Maybe try a tad bit more sharpening. I did a quick Smart Sharpen at .2 and around 100...you could probably push that a bit more too...

Thanks Ted, but I feel like a very slow learner I have had Photoshop for 10 months and only got the nerve to start dabbling with it. I did add a little more sharpening but I am notorious for over sharpening.
canonloader
24th of October 2007 (Wed), 19:40
Nice shot, but it's blurred. Try this in Photoshop. Open the jpg, go to the channels palette. Click the red channel first, look at the blur, then the blue channel, and green. Find the one that is blurred most. Probably the red channel. Select that channel and do some Unsharp mask to it, with settings of 50.0, 0.3, 0.0. Then look at the RGB channel to see if it was enough. You might have to do it to the green channel too with the same USM settings.