In this tutorial I walk you through start to finish how I post processed this image from Death Valley national park. I walk through my process for dealing with extreme image noise in a single exposure and how to stack images to reduce noise.
This tutorial covers:
-Stacking to reduce noise
-Correcting geometric distortion manually
-Dodging and burning
-Creating a warm Horizon glow
-blending in car trails
-selective saturation and color control
-Noise reduction
-The orton effect
-Creating a smooth texture like 3d animation
-Sharpening methods & Sharpening for the Web