Can you help me fix this picture?

I simply lowerd the Gamma Level to .50 using IrfanView. I tried changing contrast and adding effects but that was killing the soft nature of the image...What do u think about it?

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My go at the image posted. I could do soo much more with the RAW image.

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ldibo wrote in post #2157457
These look great everyone! joblack, how did you get the leaves so colorful? And shung, could you tell me how you did yours? Boy do I need practice! Thanks everyone!

Lynn

1. change the Level
2. create a new layer apply gaussian blur, apply mask on this layer change the mask to gradient so progressively more blur towards the top.
3. flattened the layer
4. duplicate a new layer, apply noise dust and scratches, apply gaussian blur for smoothing the skin, apply mask
5. use brush to change mask to show smoothed skin
6. manually blur the lower part of the tree.
done.

here's my quick redo. did it on my monitor at work, don't know how it'll show up others.

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Gave it a couple shots:
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Here is my attempt, multiply a copy layer with about 40% opacity, and adjust black point in levels, and tweaked curves.

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I am not sure it is much diffrent than the other's but...

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Maybe one a lil less "dreamy"...

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