Just Playing with LAB color

Trying to relearn past knowledge

Years ago I knew how to do a lot more 

in photoshop than I remember now.

Recent events have caused me to reload 

my OS to ElCapitan since Sierra

did not work with many of my programs.

In so doing I lost several actions, one of 

which I had gotten from Photoshop CS3 

and Scott Kelby's book 7-Point System

that I used for sharpening images as I would convert

from DNG to JPG files.

I had loaned my book to someone who

gave it away so I went online and found 

an old copy so that I could recreate 

the action. In doing so however I decided 

to go through the lessons again as 

much as possible since the newest Photoshop

is far advanced over the CS3 version.

Below are three images that I have played 

with to try and use LAB in my processing again.

 Before

After

 After

Before

 After

Before

I still need more practice to get what I really want 

but at least it has sparked the desire again.