do you have to use photoshop

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Bryan I also use lightroom how did you acheive this in Lightroom would love to know specific settings also ever use any actions like in CS3

I've had a few folks PM me regarding the PP for this image, so, I'm going to share it here instead, so more members can benefit from the information.

The processing was done completely in lightroom, and I'm not going to share exact numbers of all the settings, as this doesn't really do much for you guys - it's what worked on THIS photo, not EVERY photo.

I brought exposure and fill light up a little bit, and really cranked up Blacks (+26) to give the desired dramatic/contrasty look. Pushing Clarity up a little to 15 helped with some pop also.

I did a bit of a curves adjustment to give the photo the desired punch and pop, focusing on Darks and Shadows and bringing them down for drama. I adjusted the channels in HSL to where I wanted them - this doesn't really contribute to the feel/look of the photo as much as everything else, this is more so fine tuning.

The magic in Split Toning is where the color effect is from. I gave it a bit of a cross-processed look with the following settings:

Highlights Hue 31
Highlights Saturation 34

Shadows Hue 193
Shadows Saturation 43

Balance +25

Other than that, a fairly heavy vignette and I was done

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions at all

so mainly we can say that the post processing required to the picture is either global (the whole picture) or local (some retouches to parts of the picture)
This way i think post processing is ok with me. cause i thought people change a lot of things. Now i use lightroom a lot to do effects, adjust WB and other stuff.... i am sure it is helpfull