Simple Levels adjust

Here is a simple post-processing technique. The following photo of Rio de Janeiro is quite dull. It does really not reflect the beauty of the colors at time of shooting. Download the photo and try yourself

Nevertheless it is possible to do some simple post-processing and get a nice picture out of it. Open your favorite editor and choose the Levels Adjust dialog.


Slide the right and left cursors until you get a pleasing result. Now finally we need
to adjust the composition a bit.

Find a new composition that gives an more interesting point of view


Voila. Simple