Summer Heat by Maxstar

Nice !

I really like this filter allso.I'm a big fan of portrait distortion & any filter that helps me do that is great in my book. Mikhail Gorbachev.>http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/v...ev&large=1

A challenge and a little trick... Browsing through the pictures I found this picture (the highest one). It's a sunny day. but there is some blue color cast and the image doesn't feel as sunny as it supposed to. The summer heat filter would be an interesting option. But I couldn't find the right adjustments - it was either not enough or too much too soon (the middle image). And here comes a little trick. In Photoshop I copied the filter layer three times and applied it onto original image three times in different modes and opacities. Like Soft Light - 35%, Screen - 45% and Normal - 35%). Than I masked the skies out to keep them blue. A simple Auto Curve layer was the finishing touch. The last image was the result. Much sunnier.

P.S. Of course I could do it without Summer Heat as well. Choosing white, black and neutral points, adjusting contrast, sharpning, blurring for some glow, applying some yellow filter etc, increasing vibrancy... Still prefer to start with Summer Heat in case I need to add some sun

Thank you for your suggestion, Skybase! I shall try to figure out the way remap works.

Thanks again! Figured that out. And learned to use remapping to reverse the values!