another easy image

[mikemeister_admin]

a horse,of course.GregM

[mikemeister_admin]

Interestingly, the Wizard didn't help on this photo.
I had no idea what color the barn wall was, but was fairly confident that the grass should be green.
Serendipitously, I discovered the description of "Lab and the Greens of Nature" on pages 47-49 of the book "Photoshop Lab Color" by Dan Margulis.
An ACV file with the suggested tweaks of LAB, even though I did not follow all of the theory, did most of the job in one click.  To that I then increased brightness and contrast and slightly sharpened the focus to bring out the features in the horse's face.

[ggroess]

a horse,of course.GregM

Of Course Of Course....

[ggroess]

Interestingly, the Wizard didn't help on this photo.
I had no idea what color the barn wall was, but was fairly confident that the grass should be green.
Serendipitously, I discovered the description of "Lab and the Greens of Nature" on pages 47-49 of the book "Photoshop Lab Color" by Dan Margulis.
An ACV file with the suggested tweaks of LAB, even though I did not follow all of the theory, did most of the job in one click.  To that I then increased brightness and contrast and slightly sharpened the focus to bring out the features in the horse's face.

Nicely done...but a bit cold...Try setting a neutral on one of the White surfaces.  Yes, White can be used as a neutral as long as it is a reasonable white like the gutter.  The grass looks better and the tonality of the image improves greatly.  The rest is really spot on as the Brits might say....
Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Now that Greg (G and M) is very interesting - feeling that my little grey cells are getting past it and I need a refreshed, I decided to curve in rgb because I noticed that the guttering was a different colour along it's length and also the down pipe (and you can only set one neutral in Lab [forgetting about Jacob's Ladder]).

So I set multiple neutrals and clocks next to them - the variation is quite alarming.

Don't we have fun!

[mikemeister_admin]

What I wanted to do was bring out the bars in the window and keep the insulators on the fence white.First I used the shad/light in PSE to accomplish this.Then in CM Lab I did a highlight threshold on the downspout extender.For the neutral I zoomed the image several times and found a spot the fence that read about -0,1.Treated  wood has green moss and much magenta(oxidized chemical?) messing up your readings.Then a nudge to the saturation slider.In a second pass I cut back the green of the vegatation a bit ,it was an overcast day.I'm also posting a darker version of this image that I think is truer to the instant the shutter was clicked.GregM

[ggroess]

Now that Greg (G and M) is very interesting - feeling that my little grey cells are getting past it and I need a refreshed, I decided to curve in rgb because I noticed that the guttering was a different colour along it's length and also the down pipe (and you can only set one neutral in Lab [forgetting about Jacob's Ladder]).

So I set multiple neutrals and clocks next to them - the variation is quite alarming.

Don't we have fun!

So which neutral is making the fence look too red??  What an interesting exercise. Zog Try a straight By the Numbers correction using 1 highlight and 1 shadow as well as a suspected neutral.  That's my next move... 

[joann]

Here's my version. Since I don't know what I'm doing I used the wizard. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I'm sure it could be better.
JoAnn H

[mikemeister_admin]

Julie,I think you got the color and detail just right for the horse's face and the grass.GregM,the unofficial one

[joann]

Do you mean JoAnn?