Some photographers just do levels and a little sharpening and that's it and perhaps a mimor crop.
How far do you go when the shot comes out wrong? Do you remake it?
Asher
This is perhaps a bit redundant, just posted a similar comment in another thread. This amateurs answer to "how far will I go?" To the limits of my editing abilities, then off to learn more, time permitting. This has been both the most valuable incentive to learn and progress with PS (in my case, editor of your choice in yours), and to learn new stuff.
Tools? Levels, curves, saturation, selective sharpening, softening, channel mixing, LCE (one of my favorites to add "pop" and de-fog)...to name a few. And the passion to learn new PS tricks and tools continues. The more I peruse my "junk" shots, the greater my passion. Next step? likely HDR (if I got that right). Not so sure that applies to old "junk" shots though
......but I can create a whole bunch of NEW junk shots as I naively pursue this new adventure.
Off to re-shoot is certainly an option, I guess in my case I normally don't take this quite that seriously (yet?), or more often, it was happenstance to begin with.
Thanks for presenting the opportunity to opine, Asher.
-Greg