So first thing we want to do is what the white balance looks pretty fine but we want to expand its dynamic range and we're gonna do that by lowering the highlights all the way increasing the shadows and the whites just until they peak so you don't want to go too high. There we go and this is just what I like to do. I like to increase the contrast and then turn off the blacks. Now it looks a little crazy right now. Don't worry we will change this later this just gives me something to start with. We're gonna start with the channel mixer. So let's look back at our photo. We got greens we got some kind of whitish blues and yeah let's let's see what we can do here. I'm gonna choose kind of a teocolor for the highlights. I don't know what I'm just gonna eyeball this you know that's what I do most of the time people don't believe it but it's how I like to do things so here we have kind of a new new-ish color. See I want to try 180. Still can a little bit too saturate still so I'm gonna go down just just a notch. Okay and we're gonna go here to the to the color panel and we're gonna mess around with these colors. Now remember this is you edit however you want to do this is just this is my my way of doing things. It's a lot of going back and forth and yeah let's see looking this color again. Okay it's not that's actually not that contrasty but we'll change that later. First we're gonna change the yellows kind of a greenish color. So I'm gonna push them you don't have to go all the way but just kind of look at it and however it looks you decide so that's looking okay and there's a lot of blue here way too much blue we're gonna tone that down so we're gonna go to this and just gonna eyeball it. I kind of like I kind of like that one let's see. It's still really saturated that's just a tone it down probably by a lot. Something like that there's some purple involved so I'm gonna mess around with the temperature this time. Okay that's probably too much got tone it down. There I kind of like that. Now the problem is it looks a little too dark for me so I'm gonna come around and play with the tone curve. Now like I say this is just the way I like to do things and people have their own way so whatever you choose to do is fine. I'm gonna bring up the shadows and the dark right here. Make a little bit brighter. I don't like to always do global changes sometimes I like to be more precise and if you're afraid of the tone curve don't be you can do some crazy shit just but I like subtle changes like this so yeah I think that's looking much better already not too crazy though see bring this one down. Okay and maybe here too. Like I said there is no preset for this you just gonna have to eyeball it and do it the way that you want to do and I'm liking that already so over here I'm gonna lower the contrasts. There is a lot more green involved over here. So my lower the contrast just a little bit. There you go and I do want more green so probably in the shadows. Okay that's a little too much. Okay actually I don't like that. So as you can see there's a lot of back and forth. I mean the imagination is you limit basically so I'm gonna use a gradient just because that's what I feel like doing and we're gonna see how it looks. Okay I don't like the yellow but I do I do kind of like this. I like the green and the buildings I am not liking the green here so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a brush reduce the saturation just like that. Now I am aware that I'm reducing it by quite a bit but that's fine we just leaving the saturation at minus a hundred so we can see where the brush actually is. Now I'm now slowly creep up some color back in there. There we go. Finally I want to do something about these oranges. We're gonna make them a little bit more yellow so go back to a color panel find orange change them to yellow and now we have something that more or less kind of resembles Akira. Akira. Now it ain't perfect but like I said you kind of have to go back and forth changing these kind of things you know. So this is something you guys can practice working on. There you go. And this is just a one of my takes on it. I can probably spend a whole hour on this editing exactly the way I want it but I kind of want to give you a little process of how I edit a city scape. So if you want to see more videos like this please be sure to subscribe and thank you very much. See you.