Originally Posted by
Isaac Grant
It is very hard for me to know exactly what your water looked like but in my head I have an idea of what the beautiful Florida gulf water is like. I tried to base the water color off of the warmness of the bird. As presented it seemed too dull compared to warm tones of the bird. Did the following.
Selected the background
In levels lowered the mid tones to -94 and the white to 230
Raised the saturation +10
Used NIK Viveza to cool the water and increase brightness a bit
Used Nik White Neuatralizer at 33% opacity to make it a bit more of a deeper blue.
Of course all of this could be done just by messing with the colors more in PS and not using NIK. It is just a quick way to edit and to try and bring out the crystal blue water. Also ran some minor NR on background. Easy to increase or decrease the level of blue depending on what you do. Thoughts?