speters wrote:
Hi GC, was looking through some old posts and just noticed your request, it is just a few very simple steps, You do not even have to go into Photoshop, it is best done in ACR. You open your raw file in ACR and go to the HSL/Grayscale tab. In there you click on the word Default, as that set all the sliders to zero. Than drag both, the Yellow and the Green all the way to 100. For your black skies, dial the Blue slider all the way down to -100 (you can try to do the same with the Aquas slider (preference). Now go back to the Basic Panel and boost your dark skies and brighten the foliage with the white balance to bluer and greener (temperature to the left toward blue, tint to the left toward greener) Adjust Shadows and Blacks to taste, you can go as far as 100 (just dial down if you feel its too much. If you want to give your images that little foggy quality, dial down the Clarity, but do this carefully ( you could loose too much detail). This is pretty much it, you could add some grain in the Effects tab, but that is again preference. Go try it out and have some fun playing with it ( I think it's fun!!!) Wish you a nice day!!
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