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Step 10:
At this point, to make the color more vi-
brant, you could save the file as a JPEG,
TIFF, or PSD, then reopen the image in
Camera Raw and increase the Vibrance
amount. If that sounds like a lot of work,
try this instead: Press Command-E (PC:
Ctrl-E) to merge your two layers, then
go under the Image menu, under Mode,
and choose Lab Color (don't worry, this
is a non-destructive move). Go under the
Image menu, again, and choose Apply
Image . In the dialog (shown here), first
change the Blending mode to Soft Light ,
which builds up the contrast. Then, from
the Channel pop-up menu, try all three
channels, Lab, “a,” and “b” (ignore the
Lightness channel—you'll never use it),
and see which one looks best to you. In
this case, I chose “a,” which added a lot
of warmth to the foreground and rock for-
mations in back. When it looks good to you,
click OK, then go back under the Image
menu, under Mode, and choose RGB
Color . Now you can sharpen it by going
under the Filter menu, under Sharpen, and
choosing Unsharp Mask . Pick some nice
strong settings (here, I chose Amount: 120,
Radius: 1.2, Threshold: 3), and click OK to
finish the image (seen below).
 
 
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