Lake view

Ok, I just discovered a new tool today

Magic eraser.

Following shot was exposed for the sky so the lake and the trees was underexposed.

I have attempted to recover that by duplicating the layer. Adjusted layers on the foreground layer. Then on the background layer I used a combination of the eraser tool and magic eraser to complete the photo.

What do You think?

Looks a little faded to me, maybe you went too far. I'd like to see the original. I like the shot though.

I forgot to mention that I boosted saturation some.

This is the original.

Looks pretty good to me. It does need some contrast though, which would help a lot. And you missed a spot on the tip of a tree just to the left of the reddish tree.

I think it lacks contrast too, you could have saved yourself some work by just using shadow/highlights and level it out a bit, I got this result with it (using your original pic, hope you don't mind)

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Thanks, that looks much better. In any case it was fun learning something new.

run the blur tool across the top of the treeline to get rid of the "cut and pasted look in the trees" use a small brush and just blur the edges of the treetops a bit.

I think that look is caused by the resizing (it also looks that way in the posted "original"), so it's probably just a sharp pic.