📷PortraitContest - Week #10 - My Entry (with Photoshop colour correction tutorial)

Would you like to know how I did the colour correction for my entry into the Water Portrait contest by @jasonrussell? I've included a basic overview of my process for improving the colour of your photos in Photoshop. I wanted to keep the photograph authentic so I haven't done any touch-ups, only colour correction and I've explained my process in detail below.

^{This is my entry into the contest}

A good friend of mine, Heba, who recently got married came with her husband to visit us in Cyprus. We went on a boat trip from Latchi to Blue Lagoon. The boat anchored for an hour and everyone dived into the crystal clear water of the Mediterranean and we were able to take some awesome photos with my GoPro.

^{This is me with Heba}

^{The original photo was a little washed out, so I began by adjusting the levels. It's best to do them individually especially for underwater photography where the red colour is often lost}

^{To bring our some of the detail in the water in the background, I added a mask and used a curve adjustment layer.}

^{Red colour disappears as you go deeper underwater. This was very shallow, but a minor adjustment to the colour levels helped to improve the skin tones.}

^{I wanted the colour to reflect the playful mood of the photograph so I increased the saturation.}

^{Finally, I wanted to highlight her face, so I added a mask and used a camera exposure layer to make her face more dynamic}

Thanks for reading
@deimus