Hey Joy,
It just occurred to me, being the PS expert that you are, that you might have been looking for a much more detailed answer to the quickie I gave you.
That row boat image is many many years old. It was taken from a dock on a VERY cloudy winder day. The lake was calm as glass. I liked the image. I've had it around for years but it was not until I learned Photoshop a few years ago that I was able to make many of my "pretty good" images into great ones.
I did not actually do much to that image. To begin with, I love minimalist photography. When I came across that old slide I scanned it into the computer. I opened PS and used hue/saturation to bring out the subtle color in the boats and reflections. I then selected the boats and reflections, reverted the selection, gave it a one pixel feather and blurred all the water around the boats until it was perfectly "smooth." The water was just reflecting a grey sky anyway and that was a perfect backdrop for the subtle color in the boats.
That Atlanta skyline was kinda the same. Taken went the sun was very low in the sky to give the light that orange tint. The image was actually taken for a client back when I was a advertising photographer. Anyway, I came across that one a year or so ago, knocked out the original sky, found a dynamic cloud formation that was almost the same color as the color in the buildings and voil?. That's to PS it became a much better image than the one I originally shot with film a looong before image editing was made "easy."
Lee
PS Welles, I hope I did not describe how I made that image the first time I posted it. Like the image itself, I couldn't remember so just said the hell with it and described it again. Sorry if it's another re-run. I'm old now ya know. The mind is the first thing to go.
Great camera - its a keeper. I see a nice chunk of property in the mountain area, we could subdivide and make a fortune. [slick] 
