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excellent
this green is stunning!
Love that "lomo"
look how smooth the sky looks! awesome!
This is amazing!
Oh Gosh this is beautiful.. I want this for my desktop background :(
wow... gran detalle
Es un ojo
ahi deseo estar
The tone is amazing!
Tutorial - after by Soffia Gisladottir.
http://www.soffia.net

Hi guys.
I´ve been getting many emails where people are asking me how
I work my photos
so I thought you´d like a tutorial.

Well, this is the first time I do a tutorial. I hope
it makes sence. If you find this helpful
I ´ll try to find a photo that needs a massive
work, and do another one, with more steps and screenshots.
This tutorial is made with Photoshop version 8.0, and a basic
knowledge to do this tutorial helps.


STEP 1
duplicate layer, name it sky

STEP 2
with layer we called sky, go to
IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - LEVELS
and put in the numbers
68
1,38
255


go to IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - hue saturation
-12
-55
0


STEP 3
name the background layer mountain (turn off the sky layer)
go to IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - LEVELS

49
1,03
217

STEP 4
turn on sky layer, and with that layer selected, erase everything but the sky

STEP5
duplicate sky layer, name it blur

go to filter - blur - gaussian blur 8,4%


STEP 6
erase everything but the blue tones with a soft brush to make the clouds in focus
and bring down the opacity of the brush at some points

STEP 7
merge sky layer and blur layer and name it sky
at the sky layer go to:

levels
44
1,00
255

hue-sat and change Cyans, blues and master.
Cyans
-5
-38
0

blues
-7
-28
0

master
0
-18
0

STEP 8
go to mountain layer

levels
31
1,00
255

at last I put on a radical gradient
with 50% opacity, to do the vignette
(make new gradient from gray to white, with
opacity at ca 70% on the gray part)
This is what I basically do, with some
images I duplicade layers again and again
to ajust the levels, and the hue sat untill I´m
happy. I sometimes use gaussian blur at the sky
if it´s noise after all the ajustments, and then
erase the clouds part to get the focus. 
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Hrönn Thorarensen (NinnaK)  Pro User  says:

Svakalega falleg mynd! Mikill munur eftir að myndin hefur verið unnin. Fer úr því að vera svona lala mynd yfir í mjög flotta. Þarf greinilega að fara að læra á photoshop :o).

Takk fyrir kennsluna.
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Soffia Gisladottir  Pro User  says:

The before photo

Tutorial - before
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Soffia Gisladottir  Pro User  says:

I took this photo in 2002 with a 2 mp ixus, so the quality is not the same as the photos with my canon cameras I have to day, the colors
are not so faded, but this is a good tutorial to show what you can do to your photo. The main thing is that the photo has a good composition, or some interesting material to work with.

Yes, Nanna , það er ágætt að kunna á photoshop, stafræn myrkvakoma 21.aldarinnar : )
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jkurl11  Pro User  says:

great tutorial - thanks!
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Luis Montemayor  Pro User  says:

The result is just great! Thanks for sharing!
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FrankInUlm says:

wow - I never dared to ask! Thanks so much for sharing this.
Although there's far more in your photos than only the colors!
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Soffia Gisladottir  Pro User  says:

thank you jkur11 and Luis, thank you FranklnUlm
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nancz  Pro User  says:

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

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frizenkov says:

Fine place
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Lab2112  Pro User  says:

Most excellent result, Soffia. I'm now a new fan of your work. ;)


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Lazlo Woodbine  Pro User  says:

Great photo and excellent processing... I'm going to try to use the tutorial too. Many thanks.


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sparpy1980 says:

thanks that's so precious
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thanks you very much~!!! : )
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[RosyWarda] says:

Great result! I'm not able to use photoshot yet, but thanks to your tutorial soon I'll improve!!
thank you!!!
your photos are always wonderful!!!
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wow, impressive transformation...
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.nicky.  Pro User  says:

woww!!!!!excellent!!

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nothingasitseems says:

awesome shot. great work. thanks for the lesson.
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sniper_88 says:

Good work! I got really similar effect after doing it another way;-)
1)Auto levels
2)I've copied the sky onto a new layer (blending mode=multiply) and used gaussian tool (7px)
3) Copied ground onto another new layer (bm=multiply again) and brigtened a bit.
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NymphoBrainiac  Pro User  says:

ha, I think people like your processing ;)

you didnt mention this, but a lot of your color and hue changes can be achieved by processing in RAW.

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Dyrk.Wyst  Pro User  says:

wow, thanx for the insights to your fantastic work!
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casper17 says:

intresting tutorial, I"m sure it will help many people
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surferdog says:

Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us how you do your wonderful work. It is spectacular!
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agedsenator  Pro User  says:

Excellent tutorial !
Thanks !
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Ana de León says:

Wow! The change is amazing. Thanks for the tutorial.
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jasondunsmore says:

What an improvement! Nice tutorial!
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The World Through My Eyes
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kasia wska  Pro User  says:

lovely!!!
and thank You (dziękuję in polish) for the tutorial:-)

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Dalla*  Pro User  says:

Þessi er mjög flott!
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Samyra Serin  Pro User  says:

Great work !
Thanks for sharing your tips !

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wow

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Mace2000  Pro User  says:

Thanks a lot for that tutorial! It helps me a lot!
And your reslut is just fantastic. Well done!

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Levan Kakabadze (tabu) says:

very beautiful!
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Melville B.  Pro User  says:

Great. Wonderful processing work. I'm absolutely unable to do the same :)
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amatr  Pro User  says:

wonderful treatment and lesson! Thank you!
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damn cool treatment! rocks! very nice shot!

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great! thank you

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I'd like to think that it's just magic!
Beautiful work...!
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Stefanie Bamberg says:

fantastic work!!!!!!!
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Meredith_Farmer  Pro User  says:

I love that you would share - not so many people are willing to do that. Beautiful work.

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very interesting! thanks for sharing
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pätricio londaits says:

Breath taking and usefull at the same time :D

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IngaHel  Pro User  says:

Flott hjá þér, bæði mynd og upplýsingar. Takk fyrir það.
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Lilia♥ says:

Lovely view
Great colors

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Thanks for sharing. Of course it helps that the composition is stunning to begin with!
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Superb composition!!!
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LiLi S.  Pro User  says:

Soffia your pics are awesome!!! Really make me happy to see them.
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Beautiful

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Frábær mynd!!!
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Niiiiice. Ég set þetta í Bookmarks hjá mér, prófa þetta einhvern tíma. Magnað hvað er hægt að gera mikið með Photoshop. :]
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dancedownsilence says:

amazzzzzing. i love how you fixed it. i also love love love the shadow of the clouds on the face of the mountain. brilliant.
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moveSHiFTstay  Pro User  says:

So nice of you to share your technique. It's easy to tell from your photos that you really know what you are talking about! Incredible work!
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Stunning work.... congrats!

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faxao  Pro User  says:

Wow...complicated but it is definitely worth !!
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that's some very interesting PS work !
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Thanks for the tutorial! Lovely image.
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Pro Account Members, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Beautiful colour and composition, and an interesting tutorial! A great photo.
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Great. Congrats. Thanks a lot.
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judo_dad1953  Pro User  says:

Yesterday was Mozart, today is Frederic Chopin. As i'm viewing your photostream, i'm listening to Chopins Revolutionary Etude C minor; Op.10 #12. Wonderful photos always mix well with great music! Bravo!
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matthewmitchell.ca  Pro User  says:

soffia, my dear this is wonderful!
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Jeremy Orban says:

unbelievable. the before/after is incredible. i faved it, the processing is incredible
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really beautiful
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Darren C.  Pro User  says:

Amazing image, and thanks for the tutorial! I used to explain a little of that with each of my postings, but that can be time consuming.
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mac_raw says:

wooowww!!! :)
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Wonderful landscape and thanks for sharing knowledge : )
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Rolling Blue says:

I like your work but I'm having trouble following the tutorial. If you ever get in the mood to provide some screen shots that would get great. Good work.
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Great photo and thanks for the tutorial! Very much appreciated.
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