Retouching and enhancing the beauty

Dear all , this is what i had promised previously . To show the technique on retouching and enhancing . I'm so sorry that I always blog at night . No choice ! Extremely busy with classes, assignments and mid-terms. Fyi, I'm sick yesterday . Luckily, everything gets back to normal now.
Alright, let's go straight to the main point :)
First , let's look at the photo that I had uploaded after my layering process. I guess you guys had already forgotten how it looks like . I'm so gonna refresh your memory now !

Do you have a slight memory about this eWallpaper ? I bet you do remember this although it's not so attractive . My tutor, Miss Lydia said i didn't use much skill of Photoshop . This time round , I'm going to change the wording style of "Faculty of Management" and add on shadow to the eBee as well as the logo . Just double click on the layer and a dialogue box as below will appear.

At the dialogue box , you can see a few options on the left hand side. For instance, drop shadow, inner shadow, outer shadow and etc. You just select which style you prefer and adjust it to your own preference . As for the 3 elements I had stated above , I emphasize on drop shadow and inner shadow . That is the main reason those wording and logo aren't that clear . Remember to click on preview so that you're able to look at the adjustment .

Look at the circled wording and compare it with the original one .

After adjusting the wording , we are now moving on to enhancing and retouching. Well, my eWallpaper has nothing much to retouch on. So I will focus more on enhancing. In enhancing, I will focus on only adjustment. Adjustment will be available on the right hand icon. Just click in adjustment, and one whole set of icons will appear .

Now you know where to find all the adjustment icons. Each and every icons represents a different function. In my eWallpaper , i had used colour balance , brightness/contrast, and levels. These 3 components help me adjust the colour and brightness of the image to suit my preference .Besides that , I manual adjust the colour balance of the background building image making it a little red so it would look so ordinary and dull . Colour balance has 3 tones which include shadow, midtones and highlights. Each of this brings different effect after adjusted . Focus on image during the adjustments.

 

Drag each of it to adjust the colour intensity

Shadows&highlights

Colour balance

Next, I would like to enhance on the cloud. The cloud are just looking too pale with little clouds intensity . Now, I'm going to increase the clouds intensity by reducing the noise . people might wonder what is it has to do with noise . Curious ? Just follow the steps. Go to filter , select noise then reduce noise. The same goes to smart sharpen . Select filter , then sharpen and finally smart sharpen. As usual, dialogue box will appear for adjustment purposes.

reduce noise process

smart sharpen

That's the process of mine in retouching and enhancing . Isn't that simple ? A simple adjustment change and modify the original beauty of it . Try it out !
Now, let's have a look at my final outcome after adjustment .

Taaadaaa ! :)

That's my final outcome of adjusting everything . Like it ?
Do give me comment if you think I'm still lacking of skill or there are places that need to be improved .
I gotta sleep now . Good night all my beloved readers ♥♥