I thought this was a somewhat interesting shot, taken during a rainy walk a few days ago. Spring is coming, but many trees are still full of brown leaves from autumn.
I am half-way satisfied with my attempt, but would be eager to see what hidden potential lies in the image!
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20230411_0013.DNG (31.0 MB)
My version:
Here is my attempt. I found the color zones module useful for lifting the brightness of the brown leaves and increasing the saturation of the greens.
20230411_0013.DNG.xmp (19.1 KB)
GIMP. I made a reduction in the dynamic range by blending two exposure values. Then local adjustments to saturation - probably overdone!
Ah … too bad, the sky is lost. Otherwise I like the picture 
edit: probably the sky was just gray/white and you had no options, its just that I had preferred a more dramatic sky to work with 
Yeah, it really was white, because it was raining. 
I really love how you highlighted the pathway. Well done! I will have a closer look at your sidecar.
Interesting idea and it looks nice! What exactly do you mean with “watermarked”?
Really like the colours on your Gimp version!
You can do a sky swap or even use some texture by using a PNG file and the watermark module. Sometimes adding something even at very low opacity to that white sky can give you something to work with or change the mood
@priort
How about a swift tutorial?
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
It works well if you can get a good mask which when you have these mostly or almost blown skies is pretty easy. Often only a parametric mask will do it or maybe a little help from a drawn mask if other parts of the image remain after parametric mask tweaking . Then just pick a png file. I have several that I got from ON1 as jpg and converted them…These might be free or some of them might be for the public… there are other or you could use one of your own skies…
That’s really it. So if you can mask the area then you can use that hack to do a sky replacement……
