Week Eight - Playing with colors

I'm having quite the time converting Photoshop tutorials to PSP7, but they are very similar for the most part! I find myself assuming that the options will have different name, or just not exist altogether, but that is actually rarely true. I don't quite understand what they all do, so I mainly just move sliders around and see how the colors change. That is how I decided to turn this photo from a mid-day picture to a sunset picture (or at least try to...):



To get it I mostly just played with color, adding a bit of red and a little green. I also darkened it a bit. Everything else I tried faded the picture or made it look too fake.

The next set I have is... "crop-inspired":



I wanted to crop the antenna out at first, then I just kept going. I also messed with the colors a little bit to make the scene more fantasy like. The road is darkened to make it stand out a little, and the saturation is a bit blotchy for that "drawn" effect ... does that make sense?