Photoshop Creative

Marvelous example of high dynamic range. To make the most of it I had to work with 3 separate ACR conversions (highlights, midtones and shadows) and merge them in PSE with luminosity masks. We know that ACR is not bad at recovering highlights, but then, the colors are off. Here with exposure at -4, the clouds were visible, but grey. I added cyan back with a cooling filter. Additionally there was some purple fringing/chromatic aberrations which I reduced by using an inverted edge mask and desaturation. The level of details is impressive.

Full res:
http://www.prestophoto.com/photos/image/1289811/34004

Wonderful work, Michel.

Free style for the last one:
http://www.prestophoto.com/photos/image/1289902/34004

Looks good, Michel. Are you, Gene and I the only three on here who like to mess with ACR/Lightroom? Maybe it's the travel photos that are off-putting. If someone wants to volunteer for next week, just chime in.

Nope, Sunny, just been so busy. I thought I better post these before I start on your new set. Love your travel photos!!!

This one I used preset 2-sein effects


On this one I used preset called Less direct postive and add some fill light



This one was a tuff one for me. Not near as good as Michels. Just played with all the sliders



This one used a preset called NV Pop and then used alot of brush work



Now on to this week's challenge