19 Well, so far so good. Let’s take a closer look at the sky and
target that next. Click on the Graduated Filter tool and
drag down from the top of the image to just below the horizon
line. If you hold the Shift key, you can constrain it to vertical/
horizontal if needs be.21
A Radial Filter is next, to enhance the sun. You can use
it to drag an ellipse around the rising sun and some of
the surrounding clouds. Make sure the Invert Mask button
is checked so the effect of the filter is inside the ellipse, not
outside it. The Feather amount controls how soft it will be.22 Push up the filter’s Temp value to 90 and the Exposure
to about 0.55. Doing this increases the warmth and
brightness of the sun. You can click and drag any of the filter’s
control points to either move its position or alter its height and
width to get it just how you want.23
An Adjustment Brush can also be used with increased
Temp, Exposure and Highlights values and painted over
the foreground rocks to increase the highlight brightness and
colour tone. The beauty of the brushes is that you can add as
much or as little as you like and erase any parts you want.24
A nice touch used by landscape photographers is to use
the Split Toning tool to adjust the colours of shadows and
highlights. Split Toning is often used to mimic the colour effects
seen in cross-processed film stocks in pre-digital times. Click
the Split Toning tool to open its panel.20 The adjustments available to the currently selected filter
will drop down and you can add a subtle darkening of the
sky using about -1.20 Exposure. You can also enhance the warm
tones on the sky by pushing the Temp slider right to a value of
about 30 to increase the yellow/orange tones in the sky.132
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