Post-Production of "Blue Paradise" with Adobe Photoshop CS5

A short screencap showing the post-production process of my wallpaper "Blue Paradise".

First, I duplicated the layer and set the blending mode to "Soft Light" to deepen the colors and increase the contrast. Parts that came out too bright or too dark were removed with the eraser tool.
Using the elliptical marquee tool (feather: 250px) I selected parts of the sky and had Photoshop auto-adjust the levels in LAB (good for blue tones) and RGB mode.
(Repeat these steps a couple of times.)
Then I used the dodge tool to brighten the colors of the plants and the clone stamp tool to remove the highlights in the clouds.
Finally I used the Noise Ninja plugin to remove the noise.

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Howto & Style

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• wallpaper
• photography
• tutorial

[victor5peru]

i dont like the fact that you dont do a run through of what you are doing... And everything is going too fast.... Other than that... Good Pic..

[nxxos]

@victor5peru Thanks for your comment. The steps are explained in the video description, and you can pause the video at any time. Keep in mind it's not really supposed to be a tutorial but a demonstration of how I work.

[nxxos]

@KHAOSxZeRo That's no problem (However, I have more than three Maldives photos ;)). Can you please send me a message with links to the three images you like as well as your email address so that I can send them to you? (Unfortunately Youtube doesn't allow links in video comments...)

[adiar]

awesome picture, dude!