Red & Purple

This is a picture of the entrance to an antique store situated along the Ohio River not too far from downtown Pittsburgh.  The picture was taken in April of 2010.  From what I remember the day was cool, gray and rainy.  I worked on this image in Photoshop (after a few exposure adjustments and noise/sharpening work in Camera Raw).  That darn red door.  Red seems to be tricky in digital images.  Red is really red.  This red door was blotchy in spots.  I had it evened out pretty good but looking at it in this .jpeg format I still see some blotches at the bottom.  Working on that.  In Photoshop, I adjusted the levels on the door itself, the purple wall and the white "Open" sign.  I worked with the Hue/Saturation layer adjustment on the red and I swear the .tiff file looked great, but again, I see blotches in this image.  We'll see what it looks like once it's posted.  This photo, like the last one, was taken before I knew how to use my digital SLR.  (not that it's mastered at this point - I'd put myself on a 5th grade level).  I didn't really want to clean up the bricks.  I kind of like their imperfections.  An imperfect foundation.  Imagine that.