Using Another View's photograph.
Go To Sharpen - Unsharp Mask
Amount - 88
Radius - 22
Threshold - 0

Now have a look at the haze on the mountains.

Very nice photograph - Excellent potential

PFitz








Quote Originally Posted by another view
Not sure why no one has answered so I'll try to help - not being a Photoshop expert myself. First off, two things about the second shot - the branch coming into the frame in the lower right corner, and also there isn't any separation between the palm tree and the huts (right word?). Not a bad shot, but I'd go with the first one.

The first thing to do is to take a good hard look at the image and decide what you need to do to it. What made you pick that shot? Whatever it is, you don't want to lose that quality by overworking it in Photoshop. Personally, I thought the bottom looked too dark, the sky too light and it could use some more contrast. I pulled it in to Photoshop CS, and did this:

1) Increased contrast 10%

2) Dodge tool at 50% exposure for the midtones at the bottom of the frame (bridge, trees, hut). I covered all of the area with a big brush (happened to be 139px which is pretty big in an image this small) and then went back to get some of the areas again. I did this quickly and would pay more attention to it if I were working on something that would be a big print.

3) Burn tool at 50% exposure for the shadows in the sky and clouds only. Waved the brush over this area once. This brush happened to be 85px, but again size isn't critical.

4) Unsharp mask at these settings - Amount: 115%; Radius: 1.2 pixels; Threshold: 80 levels. Sharpening is a personal preference. Maybe I did a little too much here but it's more for illustration I guess. Your settings for what looks good for you on a big print will probably be different, but use these values as a starting point.

Ask 10 photographers what to do here and you'll get 20 or more answers (well, usually;) ). These are just my ideas and should not be taken as an absolute. I'd probably make a "working" print and live with it for a couple of days to decide if I really liked what I did to it. I would save your Photoshopped file as a TIF and keep that as a master file. You can then edit off of that to make whatever changes from that point you feel necessary and re-save with no loss in quality.

Hope this helps.