Take a quick look at this tutorial, then open the beach image in Photoshop or GIMP and follow the instructions. You’ll learn a lot about post-processing!
My biggest surprise was when I added the “soft light” layer. Painting on it brought out detail or deepened shadow nicely!

3 Comments
Donncha (1707 comments.) on November 30, 2007 at 8:23 pm.
testing!
Deker on March 6, 2008 at 11:19 am.
Hmm… I have a lot of Photoshop Manuals, but this seems usefull.
Venkat on September 10, 2011 at 8:26 am.
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