Sunset!

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Ever wondered why you can see wonderful sunset images on the web, but your own images never turned out so saturated and even?
That´s why the contrast between sky and landscape are a stretch for any digital sensor. But there is hope, you can easily adjust that in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

This is the shot taken from the camera:


This is the shot after some PP:


Here you can download the Photoshop document to analyse it, (you can adjust the curves level, if you´d like to lighten up the whole image):
http://www.bloomi.de/images/sonnenuntergang.psd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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If you don´t know what to do with the curves level, you can look at the histogram, do you see a hidden curve there?
Here is a possible curve to fit that histogram. It works in many cases and it´s always worth a try!

[ritaB]

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Sincerely,
RitaB