Dana just got back from Hawaii and brought a whole slew of new pictures with him. He asked me to fix this one of the balcony at the Ohana hotel up so he could send it to the staff to thank them for the fine service. This only took about 15 minutes to touch up.

First I used the new Vibrance slider in Photoshop CS4 to enhance the sunset colors. Then a Curves adjustment layer set to screen to restore brightness to the plugged up shadows in the foreground (Katrin Eiseman shares this tip in the CS3 Video workshop CD), then another curve to adjust the color and saturation of the found buildings. Finally a Dan Margulis-inspired trip to LAB mode to give everything a pump and sharpen the image on the lightness channel.