If I park my car behind my apartment building this is the view I get. A stone wall holding up a pretty high hillside. (Let's hope for little rain this Spring because I can't see this wall holding up all the mud that's on the hill out back.) I usually park in the side or front of the building anyway.
After I got out of my car I took a shot of the stones and loaded the picture in my laptop and thought the image looked really flat and dull. I don't know if got the look I was going for but I definitely like the direction the After image is going in. The stones seem earthier to me with some hints of colors on the leaves that are wedged in between. The biggest challenge was selecting the stones in Photoshop and working with the edges. I had a bluish halo around many of the stones so I have to figure out where that came from - whether camera raw or Photoshop. The blue rings around the stones weren't in the original image so I know it was something I did. Once in Photoshop I mostly used the sepia preset on the adjustment layer and then adjusted the hue, saturation and lightness accordingly. Long way to go yet with editing these things - for now just working with what I know. Was this a fun exercise? Yes and no. Yes, because I liked seeing the change in the after image. No, because my neck hurt after sitting over this laptop for hours painting in Quick Mask all the details of those edges. Not complaining though. Just realizing I have to read up on ergonomics.
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