Our assignment was to edit a picture we had taken in class on photoshop and make it look realistic.

To start off I edited the gradient and made it black and white, to create a nice realistic effect. I thought it would work best because we used charcoal which is black, so basically grayscale would make it look more real. I increased the hue and the saturation. I also increased the exposure, and gamma. Finally I decreased the brightness and cropped the picture. As you can see above, this was what I had ended up with. :)