Show Me Photoshops Potential

[L i am]

Hi Guys. Up until now, I worked in 3D with Sketchup and twinmotion. I have been unable to progress the quality of my renders and have hit a wall. I strongly have come to the conclusion that I need to get competent at Photoshop. TBH I have no idea what photoshop can do to improve my renders with post production, that is why I am here.

I am simply trying to get my head around what PS can do for my renders in the sphere of Architectural Visualization. If someone can enhance this image for me, I just need to see the potential of Ps to give me the enthusiasm to take a deep breath and learn Photoshop. Hope you get what I mean.

Thanks

 

[Babine]

Subjectively, I balanced the RGB colour values of the apparent whites and blacks with a curves adjustment layer and thereby, removed the warm colour cast. Because of the attached mask to this layer, any portions of the warm appearance can be added back selectively. I then cloned over the reflections from the picture right side window and added a low opacity sharpening in Darken mode.

 

[L i am]

Thanks Babine! I will work out what you said and apply it. The image you did is very much appreciated and gives me something to work towards,

 

[IamSam]

Balanced the contrast. Color Balance and restoration. Improved tonal quality. Deepened the blue of sky. Most of all, I toned down that super annoying washed out glare that was robbing the overall image of it's focus!!!

 

[ex_teacher]

I'm going out on a limb here because I have no idea what kind of 3D output Sketchup and Twinmotion are realistically capable of and how one would modify that when outputting. I look at this 8 bit Jpeg image as a photographer and working on it in PS would be so much more versatile and capable if this image had color depth greater than 8bit / channel. PS easily handles 16 bit/channel. That's incredibly important because 2^8= 256 levels of tone in each of the three 8 bit channels of this Jpeg image whereas 2^16 = 65,536 levels of tone in each of three 16 bit channels would have so much more information

At the risk of insulting the OP, here's a example I posted many years ago. Please read the text below the images. Its easy to see a correlation between my example and the render here but, still, I might be beating a dead horse since I have no idea if greater 'usable' color depth is possible in this instance.

(8xR 8xG 8xB) 24 bit Jpeg https://pbase.com/misterpixel/image/158464765
(16xR 16xG 16xB) 48 bit RAW https://pbase.com/misterpixel/image/158464766

 

[ex_teacher]

This fall under the FWIW category:

 

[L i am]

Thanks guys I will revisit the image again keeping your comments in mind