The Sun Really Wasn’t Setting ~ A PSE Tutorial

I posted the edited version of the photo below yesterday. I just happened to be taking screen shots while I was doing it. Believe me?

This tutorial was done on Photoshop Elements 6.

I shot this photo early in the morning. I had my camera on auto mode and lo and behold, it’s a little overexposed. I liked the composition overall, and hey! you can see me standing on the bridge.

When fall descends upon us and the leaves turn a kaleidoscope of orange and gold, my mind turns to nesting. I nest by cooking, watching football and writing tutorials. I’m a simple girl.

I’m also a Photoshop Elements girl. It’s cheap and powerful relative to many other editing software out there. It’s just my humble opinion. If all you want to do is a little bit of editing, this program is for you. Since my computer crash, I have not readjusted my workflow so the default with all the apples are still there.

Anyway, the first things I do are, Enhance>Auto Smart Fix, Auto Contrast, Auto Enhance, etc. Easy.

Then I added a layer Brightness/Contrast layer and a Hue/Saturation layer and adjusted according to my eye.

I flattened the image. Then I decided that it needed a beautiful golden color. Go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Color.

Choose a nice golden color with your color picker. It will come up automatically once you do the step above.

Go to your layer palette and choose Color.

I finally zoomed in. Sorry about that. Got your glasses on?

Then I played with the opacity. I zoomed it down to 41%, a nice round number:)

I then followed my tutorial on how to do a edge burn that I wrote last January. Click here  for it. I really had not written a thorough tutorial since then. I better do them now, while the weather is bad.

It looks quite a lot different than the original and I think, better than the SOOC.

I also nest by decorating. I’m pulling out the first of our Christmas decoration tomorrow. I’m already in the mood.