Rufous Treepie

How to make foreground less distracting, after the click? Thanks for any

comments, critiques, suggestions...

Nice catch Indraneel! To reduce prominence of the bottom leaf you could selectively mask it and reduce the brightness/push down the curve a bit, then select only the upper leaf (without including the bird) and increase/push up the curve for that a little. On my screen the color balance of the entire image looks yellowish, so maybe try shifting it towards blue and perhaps also slightly towards green/cyan.

I took a quick stab at it to clarify what I was thinking of, didn't spend too much time making sure to avoid noticeable edge artefacts so definitely not a finished product yet

Thanks Paul. I do see now that lowering brightness on the background will work just as well. Many thanks for your attempt.