Levels

Everyone can these days take and publish photos thanks to cellular phones and social medias. Unfortunately way too many of those images are of lesser quality in spite of excellent image editing software being readily available cheaply or even free of charge. It could be quite easy to get the pictures to stand out instead of being bland.

A company posted this image straight from a phone on Instagram, I have taken it as it is and in three quick steps made it more appealing.

First alteration that was made to it was to boost the shadows to make it slightly more dramatic.

Next order of business was to increase the contrast to boost the red tones.

Finally the balance between light and dark tones were shifted to make the different reds blend better.