this is original ..
processing steps were ...
processed twice in RAW .. once for sky to deepen and make more dramatic and once for landscape .. coz processing for sky made landscape very orange ...
brought landscape image into sky image and erased sky so landscape showed thru then merged both layers ...
cloned out grass stem and power poles and red roof ...
increased canvas size and warped image to give more drama and to take eye into image ..
vignette ... selectively erased bits of vignette eg. fence post RHS and foreground grass and clouds ..
did adjustment layer channel mixer and increased blue to give pink hue to clouds .. erased in adjustment layer everything except the sky and then made 40% opacity ..
dodged grass that you can see looking thru fence + foreground grass and the fence going off into distance and burned clouds ..
did noise ninja but erased it from landscape ...
resized .. to 660 pixels largest side ..
sharpened more and erased from clouds so ninja could still showed for clouds..
selectively sharpened foreground grass and fence..
border ... save for web .......
when i put this dpc i realised grass has lost zing ...
opened it again in photoshop and did adjustment layer selective colour to lighten the green a bit and another ajustment layer levels and made grass more green ... and got rid of a bit of the pink in the sky .. resized the normal 640 pixels for largest size ..
which resulted in this ...
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