In the comments Stu Savory asked what I would do with his panorama of his local village in Germany. I pulled it down and punched it up a bit as it was a bit underexposed.

What was interesting to me was the fact that I have learned enough about photo manipulation to know that to correct the exposure I was going to end up with a higher contrast image that I could further correct but lowering the mid-tone contrast. I am beginning to understand what is happening when you slide those sliders. I'm also getting better at evaluating images and knowing what needs to be done to them. I hope Stu liked the results it was a fun assignment. Anyone else need their images adjusted?