I have just recently discovered this section in the forum and am absolutley amazed and what you people are doing. I am new to photography and a complete newbie when it comes to PP. Until recently I have been only using iPhoto. I did buy Lightroom 5.6, but am ashamed to say that I have not learned to use it yet. Although I have just joined a class at the local community college, so hope to remedy that. I was hoping that you very talented people could fix this photo for me. I did try but was not very successful. I would like the people removed and the photo made prettier. Sorry it is only a JPG image, as when I first started shooting I couldn't understand why the RAW images were coming out "duller" than the JPG, so I deleted all the RAW photos that I shot and continued with JPG. I know pretty silly hey! But I've changed my settings in my camera to RAW + JPG and now I am keen to learn. Oh, my camera is D7100 and the photo was taken at mid day - not the best of time, and it's straight out of the camera. I would appreciate any improvements and you have my permission to change and post. Many thanks.

I have just recently discovered this section in the forum and am absolutley amazed and what you people are doing. I am new to photography and a complete newbie when it comes to PP. Until recently I have been only using iPhoto. I did buy Lightroom 5.6, but am ashamed to say that I have not learned to use it yet. Although I have just joined a class at the local community college, so hope to remedy that. I was hoping that you very talented people could fix this photo for me. I did try but was not very successful. I would like the people removed and the photo made prettier. Sorry it is only a JPG image, as when I first started shooting I couldn't understand why the RAW images were coming out "duller" than the JPG, so I deleted all the RAW photos that I shot and continued with JPG. I know pretty silly hey! But I've changed my settings in my camera to RAW + JPG and now I am keen to learn. Oh, my camera is D7100 and the photo was taken at mid day - not the best of time, and it's straight out of the camera. I would appreciate any improvements and you have my permission to change and post. Many thanks.

I have just recently discovered this section in the forum and am absolutley amazed and what you people are doing. I am new to photography and a complete newbie when it comes to PP. Until recently I have been only using iPhoto. I did buy Lightroom 5.6, but am ashamed to say that I have not learned to use it yet. Although I have just joined a class at the local community college, so hope to remedy that. I was hoping that you very talented people could fix this photo for me. I did try but was not very successful. I would like the people removed and the photo made prettier. Sorry it is only a JPG image, as when I first started shooting I couldn't understand why the RAW images were coming out "duller" than the JPG, so I deleted all the RAW photos that I shot and continued with JPG. I know pretty silly hey! But I've changed my settings in my camera to RAW + JPG and now I am keen to learn. Oh, my camera is D7100 and the photo was taken at mid day - not the best of time, and it's straight out of the camera. I would appreciate any improvements and you have my permission to change and post. Many thanks.

Yep, Topaz is magic... I have them all! Addicted!

Taking your photo and playing a little with Adjust 5 (I started at 3 and no charge update thus far.. :thumbup: )

Playing a little suddenly I see that the photo is the same as this NASA Mars scape? You don't suppose that they... no, ... they wouldn't do that. And the flag waving in the breeze on the moon whee there is no air... no, that is just conspiracy bunk... still this NASA Mars photo looks a lot like yours!!

I suppressed the holes lower left they were distracting from the theme of the arch.

I have just recently discovered this section in the forum and am absolutley amazed and what you people are doing. I am new to photography and a complete newbie when it comes to PP. Until recently I have been only using iPhoto. I did buy Lightroom 5.6, but am ashamed to say that I have not learned to use it yet. Although I have just joined a class at the local community college, so hope to remedy that. I was hoping that you very talented people could fix this photo for me. I did try but was not very successful. I would like the people removed and the photo made prettier. Sorry it is only a JPG image, as when I first started shooting I couldn't understand why the RAW images were coming out "duller" than the JPG, so I deleted all the RAW photos that I shot and continued with JPG. I know pretty silly hey! But I've changed my settings in my camera to RAW + JPG and now I am keen to learn. Oh, my camera is D7100 and the photo was taken at mid day - not the best of time, and it's straight out of the camera. I would appreciate any improvements and you have my permission to change and post. Many thanks.

Well, I like the people! You've got a sharply captured image and with a little processing, it can look great. I did 3 quickie versions: one with just the ugly backpacks gone, one with only the attractive little family on the left, and one with nobody! You've got some serious spots either on the sensor, the lens or a filter. I got a bunch out but there's more!

Used NIK tonal contrast filter in the processing, then photoshop clone tool to amputate the people and the spots, a bit more dodge/burn. Thanks for the fun!