Landscape Photography Editing Tutorial - Photoshop CS6
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One of the biggest challenges with Landscape photography is that the sun creates intense differences between highlights and shadows. By Shooting in RAW, and with a flat image (start with a standard profile and do the following),
Contrast -3
Saturation -1
Sharpness -3
You can leverage the information captured in the image to reproduce what you actually saw with the naked eye.