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I could not agree more with Pmans statement. You can only learn if your willing to accept help along with honest critiques.Should you show perseverance, this forum would assist you in your quest for excellence.
This is surely an improvement over the other pic. Since you show interest, I would like to be more serious in giving feedback.I made some corrections. Thanks.
This is not any better. Sorry.
Let any feedback you get inspire you to perform better. Importantly, enjoy the work and indulge in the fun in working with PS.
Thank you to everyone ,My advice will be to start with something more simple, try to work on better resolution images, if that is not a possibility and you have to work with that image of you on the boat, try to find a better match (girl), trying to find in that girl image the most possible of the good advice Iamsam and Polarwoc said, like the lighting, quality, color . You will have a lot less work and it will look 100% better. To me is one of the most important things.
I did a try and looked for a better match, because of the quality of the picture looks like 1980-90 photo, I start there, could be wrong but its what it looks like XD. But I didn't have much time to do the search.. so I picked the wrong picture. (i had to make a lot of changes), But I looked it as a challenge and I can't resist a good challenge XD.
My try and the image I used.
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I straightened the horizon of this image, and enlarged the image 10%.
Adjusted the man's body to an upright position.
Placed a suitable female companion. Adjusted the lighting and blending.
Performed some color corrections.
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With a low res image like this one it is extremely difficult to get a good result.
I'm a Photoshopper with many years of experience. But this is the best I could do with your image.
Thank you to everyone ,
You created much more realistic good photos than I did. But I would like you perform the work with the same girl's photo I swapped.