Before and after... I am learning how to do all sorts of things in Photoshop... like very natural changes to eye and hair color in photographs. Oh, I could always change them, but these are new techniques. What started me on this new path of exploration is a set of screensavers within Win 7- photographs by German photographer Mathias Kentrup. His photographs have these beautiful gold and lavender skies and others are images filled with deep browns, brooding and beautiful. I went through some of my old photographs and experimented with different adjustments trying to duplicate some of his effects. I had some success with a few photographs. Of course they have to be fairly decent photos to start out with, and most of mine are "grip and grins".
Here is a scene with a gold and violet sky. This is Tampa's "Channelside".