>>4256563Look up how to use the defringe sliders on youtube to take out those purples and greens. I already did it for you on this pic and tweaked it a bit. You look like you are making the same mistakes I did when I first started. You are overdoing it. Its all too rich and too busy. You need to pick a subject and adjust your tones and shadows and colors around that subject. I chose the rich red roots in the back. I made the foreground leaves and reeds far less vibrant so they give way to the lighter middleground which in turn provides a nice contrast to the red roots in the back and naturally draws your eye there. When you are editing, you need to think about pictures like that. How to get other things to give way to the main attraction. In this picture, you have very little negative space, so you need to come up with creative ways to direct the audience to your subject. You do that by adjusting the hue, saturation and luminance of specific colors and muting them somewhat so others can shine. Its handy to think of your colors as like a budget and you only have so much color budget to work with before people dont like it. You could choose to make those brighter leaves in the middleground the focus and make the red roots disappear into the back or even make the river the main focus and play around with the blues. Either way, its a good idea to get a picture in the ballpark of where you want it and then dial everything back a bit. Keep a few reference pictures of what youre going for on hand and keep looking back at them and comparing. Take a break and come back and you might find your perfect edit isnt all that great and you start again. Ive done that countless times.
Also looking for feedback and tips on my fix of OPs pic. How badly did I fuck it up
