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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 576078" data-attributes="member: 9240">FYI, 90% of the time when you want to mess with your unnatural looking greens it's not the greens that need adjusting, it's the yellows.  Seriously.Here's you raw file with adjustments only to the yellow channel in ACR (Hue: +43, Saturation: +30) - [ATTACH=full]224789[/ATTACH]The other option is not to mess with it in ACR but to just open it as is in Photoshop and use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.  When you add the layer, use the pointer tool to click on the area you want to adjust and it will pick the proper channel (in the screen grab below I clicked on the bush on the bank - it chose yellow)...[ATTACH=full]224790[/ATTACH]Once you've done that, make your hue and saturation adjustments to that channel (changing the master channel adjusts the hues on all colors, and this doesn't need that).  The adjustment layer has a wider adjustment range than ACR, so you don't need to vary it as much. Here I've adjusted the Yellow channel so the Hue is +16, Saturation is +20, Lightness is -30, and for giggles, I actually completely desaturated the green channel.  That's right, there are no greensin this photo...[ATTACH=full]224791[/ATTACH]There's still a lot you can do. I might tweak the color balance in the midtones, moving the Magenta-Green slider to the Magenta side a touch, and maybe the Yellow-Blue to the Blue side. But again, remember, in nature it's the yellow channel that messes with your greens.</blockquote>

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