I understand that this photo could belong to this group.
Original the first one.

Good start, Issabella!
After you entered this fascinating world (photo enhancement/manipulation/interpretation), I'm sure you will continue with enthusiasm, the same you put so far in text management!

Did this one recent (believe I posted here too).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 8/sizes/o/

cool, looks like Simcity graphics.

Lyle, It's a effect very nice. It would be great if you told us how to get the effect or the link for novice people like me. In this way we could learn.

Other try about enhancement.

very good
much better defined
still bluish (is it your camera?)
using levels - grey point I got:

Dinasset, it's possible that my daughter's camera to give the bluish tone to the photos. it's a canon one. Your outcome it much better, You give it the magical touch
I hope to learn and to have the right eye to see what a photo needs one day.

I'm experimenting on photos. Here a new try.
Firstly, I got the pic a lower bluish colour and I played with retinex, then in G'MIC Sharpen, and finally I made a layer copy and filters - unsharp mask mode overlay.

Issabella, a lovely outcome. I spent hours trying to recreate your image from the original. My problem was that I could not keep the reds that you have on the roofs and the crane. So I would love to know (roughly) what you did to get your outcome.
There was a comment about the blue tinge. I agree there is a slight blue tinge. Note however that this may be a problem with our screens not being calibrated or using the wrong color profile or even atmospheric conditions.

I present an outcome, using your final outcome, with a slightly reduced blue hue and a slightly blurred distance and slightly sharpened foreground using masks.
Is it an improvement? I really do not know. It is very subjective. You can keep on trying to fiddle and fiddle but in the end a quick sharpen and obvious color balance and a crop (if warranted for composition) usually makes a huge improvement.
My outcome could probably use a slight final Brightness and Contrast adjustment to get that beautiful brightness present in your outcome
Well done.

Very nice outcome Wooble, What a busy area that is. Where is it?

wbool63 I'd like to be able to help you, I am a complete profane in this topic. I'm a little overwhelmed as I really don't know what did exactly to get the result. However the final result was made by Dinasset. Anyway I tell what I remember. I took off a little the blue tint to the picture. Then I applied some retinex, in G'MIC Details - Sharpen (deblur). Then Dinasset duplied my final outcome and applied unsharp mask and put the layer mode to overlay.
You have a very good outcome too. I'm so sorry that I play around and I didn't take any notes about as I am still learning it's only intuition about what I see.
Molly, the city is TOKYO.

Sallyanne, you've got a beautiful outcome too. Did you remember the settings you put to get it?

Thank you Isabella. Only a few filters were used.
a little contrast, some saturation, colour enhance, white balance, and unsharp mask

Thank you so much Sallyanne, I used that too. I'd like to help to wbool63 about settings, but I didn't take any note about.

I did my best on this photo. I should have written down what I did, but I didn't.
I know the first thing I did was a "Levels" adjustment and I also isolated the sky to give it more depth using "curves". I made a duplicate layer of this image, desaturated, inverted the color, and gaussian blurred it by 100, then set the layer mode to "overlay", lowering it's opacity to around 30 or so.
Other then this I can't remember what else I did to it, sorry.

Oh... I also cloned out a white object or what could have been a building that was at bottom along the boarder, near center of the original image with some of the surrounding trees.

Wallace, you have done a very good outcome. In my opinion you got la sky zone which almost didn't exist. The colours everything it's great. The cloning perfect too.
The Warrior you have thought me that it's possible to give relevance to one parte of a photo by blurring around.
Thank you so much to both of you.

Issabella, it is ok to not remember what you did. I do that all the time. I play and I forget what I did. I only record what I do when I make a tut or comment.
Dinasset and Sallyanne, lovely clean crisp outcomes.
Warrior , is that an attempt at tilt shift photography? I am not sure that the photo lends itself well to that purpose . Perhaps, a centered focus with a vignetted blur would be better. Just my opinion though!