- This is a mobile captured a bit overexposed image,
- which I will try to turn to something very dramatic using the free app Snapseed.
- First in Tune Image, I'm gonna bring the overall brightness down
- And increase the shadow values for some details from the darker parts.
- Now I'm going to use a bunch of effects with the Curves tool and a lot of selective masking for further edits.
- You can notice some blue color in the background sky.
- I also want to increase the colors of the vegetation.
- To do that, opening the curves tool here and below selecting the blue curve.
- Here I'm gonna move the blue curve towards right.
- Moving left adds blues but moving right removes the blues and also adds the opposite color yellow.
- Now the colors look better but not on the stairs.
- So going to masking. Tap on the 'Stacks' icon on the top right, View edits, latest Curves and Brush.
- Here with the effect enabled and the brush value at zero, I'm going to brush out the effect on the stairs.
- Zooming in to get precise selection.
- Applying it.
- Next with the curves again, I'm going to darken the image by bringing down the top point of the curve,
- also the middle part.
- And with masking, with the effect enabled brushing out the parts where I want to keep the light.
- Varying the transparency levels of the brush to not crush the details in the darker parts.
- To further darken the bottom part especially the stairs there, I'm gonna again use Curves with masking.
- Next to create sunlight with some morning fog, using Curves, I'm gonna crush the blacks by moving the bottom point up.
- Then applying this look with masking around the gap here where I want the sun rays to come.
- Varying the transparency values to give the foggy effect a more natural look.
- Next to further brighten the part where the light is coming, again brightening with Curves.
- Also adding yellowish tone by dragging the blue curve right and applying it with masking.
- Now some Selective filters. On the greens here to make them pop a bit.
- Also one on the stairs.
- One around here to darken the sky on these parts.
- Next for a warmer look, increasing the temperature and tint.
- As the stairs look too reddish now, I'm going to remove the effect a bit there with masking.
- Coming back to the Selective filters. Adding more brightness to these parts of the greens.
- To pop the brighter parts, increasing the highlights here.
- Also adding some saturation.
- Reducing the shadows a bit for some contrast.
- Now for some Dodge & Burn with the Brush tool.
- With the value at - 5, brushing on these stairs to darken a bit.
- Bit of dodging too.
- So here the changes applied after each effect.
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