Autumn sky in the water / #club100

My entry for the Post Processing contest. Round #34 had no special topic but an image for editing:
https://steemit.com/@bambuka/photo-contest-post-processing-34

Original photo:

...and my resulting image:
(download hi-res version by the link.)

Below I will explain how I got such an embellished image.
For editing I used .jpeg file, I used Adobe Photoshop 22.

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Step 1 - on the 1st step I cropped the image:

Step 2 - Lighting and pulling out details from the shadows.

Photoshop command was used: Image > Adjustment > Shadows/Highlights.

Step 3 - adjusting details and saturation.

Using Curves, I adjusted contrast and made image more saturated in colour.

After this, image looked like this:

Step 4 - more contrast

I duplicated the image to separate layer and mixed it with original at 20% opacity with 'Overlay' effect:

Step 5 - make sky more blue

The sky reflection is not clear and blue enough everywhere; I used brush tool and added a more uniform blue color to the sky reflection in problem areas.

Step 6 - radical artsy modification

Here probably I could stop.... but I decided to create more refined image. I copied left side of the image and mirrored it to the right side. Thus I got a nice elongated panorama of the autumn landscape.

Did you like my guide?

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