Hi guys,

After having a read of the raw processing tutorial that Rick had posted, i thought i'd give it a go. The main problem i had was that i was't too sure where to start making the adjustments. Is there a step by step process to making adjustment ie: an order to adjusting the sliders, or does it not matter too much?

As this was my first time doing any post processsing i made the mistake of not noting the changes each slider made to my image and was unable to back track to figure out what i had actually done. Silly me. I also accidentally saved my pp image over my original raw file so i couldn't start fresh... which i've been kicking myself for.

Original jpeg from the camera:


Attempted pp:


Was hoping someone would be able to explain a couple things for me:
- which slider adjustments made sections of the trunk and leaves gain a purpley tinge?
- is the noisey grass area due to cropping or something i had done with the processing?

I've seen some amazing pp work on here and have no idea how to go about it myself unfortunately Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys,