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Enhancing a landscape by adding a lake

Enhancing a landscape by adding a lake

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Enhancing a landscape by adding a lake

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Today, what we're going to do is, we're going to take this relatively bland looking image that's on the screen, here, and give it a little more excitement. We're going to add a little more color, and we're going to give it a lake, a nice little mountain lake that lives right here in this little mountain range. So the first thing we're going to do is, let's go in there and give it some color. I'm going to go into my Adjustments, and I'm going to choose my Levels. And Levels, what I'm going to do is increase the contrast between these tones here. So I'm going to take my Dark slider and move it in, way in there like that. And I'll take my Midtones and just move them slightly. So see, right there we've got this nice intense contrast between all our. Different colors, and I might want to give them a little more color. So I'll go into my Adjustments and go to something like Hue/Saturation and bump up the Saturation just a little bit, not a lot. I want to get it iridescent but just a little…

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