1'st time photoshop

[gerolamo]

Any good?
http://www.geocities.com/mihai_cs/clouds2.jpg

Here's the original:
http://www.geocities.com/mihai_cs/clouds1.jpg

[GPR1]

It's certainly an improvement, but feels a little overdone to me, unnatural. I would also fix the horizon, which is dropping slightly to the right.

Greg

[Hellashot]

It looks a bit over cranked. But you did start with a miserable out of focus image unless you saved that original with low quality setting to make it smaller in disk size.

[Michaelmjc]

Looks very unnatural, Can you post the original to see the difference?

[lucasdigital]

Any good?
Here's the original:
http://www.geocities.com/mihai_cs/clouds1.jpg

Thats a good first effort!

I think the comments about overusing some of photoshops effects is valid. I've been using photoshop for about 8 years and I still tend to overplay things.

If you are intending to go to print with your work, you'll find that you can up the saturation and sharpness without suffering the image.

[gerolamo]

Thanks for the comments,

You're right, it is overdone, but it is the first time I tried editing from Raw, and I wanted to see how far I can push it. I guess that's a bit too far :)

The originals were taken with the worst light possible, an overcast sky, late afternoon, actually my first outside tests of my camera, so I didn't have much of a clue on what I was doing :)