Processing

Why is it this colour? When I did an inventory after having my house broken into, I found a filter for using daylight film under florescent light - it cured some of the nasty "green spikes" of colour. It is exactly this colour. For reasons that escape me, it appears that when I saw this scene, I put on that filter! Or perhaps it really was this colour.

When I cropped off the bottom of the picture, there was too much black space on the bottom right, so I cloned some of the rest of the image into it. I rotated slightly to get the horizon level. Then this needed little except cropping, levels & curves to improve the tonal range, and variations & colour balance to improve the colour balance. Then the web version was sharpened using "unsharp mask".

Main Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 features used

• Image size - rotate (a little clockwise), crop, image & canvas size.
  Image adjustment - levels, curves, variations, colour balance, hue/saturation, clone tool.
  Image adjustment using adjustment layers.
  Presentation features - automate - fit image, save as JPEG.
  In mid-January 2002, for the web version only - "unsharp mask" managed in layers created for the purpose.

Typical Photoshop 6 features not used

• Layers (except adjustment layers). Filters. Over 90% of the tools.
  But in mid-January 2002, I started to use "unsharp mask" in layers to sharpen the web image.