Photoshop trick - LAB mode

Without strong colours, it tend to be difficult to make the photo lively.
So many of my photos have a standard, "only blue" and no activity sky.
Plus in India or China, we have sufficient dust and hue to spoil most of the landscape photos.

Default mode for Photoshop CS2, which I use is RGB.
Recently I checked LAB mode, specially for images that are not "vibrant".
Here are 2 photos, one enhanced with Photoshop CS2 in LAB mode.
I just played with the sliders and got a satisfactory effect.


Original:

LAB changed:

Original:

LAB changed:




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