jersey shore...

sorry, no snookie here, just a church and a sunset...

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Looks very to me.

thank you very much.

The sky turned out really well, but shame the building didn't, no detail at the top and it looks like you need to correct the cyan or blue color and tame the neon green grass on lower left hand corner. Maybe some dodge can help with the top of the building to lighten it up. Maybe it's the size of the image that is making it appear dark? Otherwise, nice job.

I did try dodging on the building (though honestly, I'm still learning photoshop) and liked it better darker than what I ended up with, though I agree that a little lighter would improve it. I didn't even think about it at the time, but I assume you can adjust the degree of brightness with the dodge tool?

as far as correcting specific colors, I'm not sure how to do that. is there a good tutorial on that on an internet somewhere? or is it something you can explain quickly?

thank you for the advice. I'll give it another go...

Usually for color correcting I like to add new layer - so something like Layer Add New Layer Hue and Saturate. Now you got you new box up for adjusting colors and can even use the eye droppers for adding and subtracting colors you want to adjust.

For me, I tend to correct a lot of blue so I will tame the blues down via this method, but often times will mess with the sky. So I than can use the layer mask that is automatically added doing the new layer thing and use the brush tool to paint back in the sky.

Dodge tool has lots of options for control, but should be done in a duplicate layer, not on the original layer.

With photo editing, layers is key to learn as you can work in a nondestructive way. Tons of tutorials on the web for photoshop.

wolfden wrote in post #12726147
Usually for color correcting I like to add new layer - so something like Layer Add New Layer Hue and Saturate. Now you got you new box up for adjusting colors and can even use the eye droppers for adding and subtracting colors you want to adjust.

For me, I tend to correct a lot of blue so I will tame the blues down via this method, but often times will mess with the sky. So I than can use the layer mask that is automatically added doing the new layer thing and use the brush tool to paint back in the sky.

Dodge tool has lots of options for control, but should be done in a duplicate layer, not on the original layer.

With photo editing, layers is key to learn as you can work in a nondestructive way. Tons of tutorials on the web for photoshop.

thanks very much. I need to just take a whole day and watch a ton of tutorials...

swetsastonic wrote in post #12729319
thanks very much. I need to just take a whole day and watch a ton of tutorials...

ehehhehe, I wish in a day one could do such a thing, photoshop takes years, but yea, get the basics down.

I played around with it this weekend a bit and it worked very well on the majority of the church. where I ran into problems were the two areas behind the bushes. how the heck do you handle those?