Changing hue, saturation and brightness to parts of an image

For this task I looked at various ways of changing an image’s colour to make it look better. For this I had to adjust hue, saturation and lightness . The original is below :

For this I used a photo I took in Liverpool. The photo is very bad so I needed to improve the colours as they were dull and monotonous. First I duplicated the background layer to start my work from, so that if I messed up I could easily start again. I then used the magnetic lasso tool around the bridge and the lampposts. I then copied this onto another layer. I changed the hue to -30 and the saturation to plus 61. This made the bridge go a green-blue colour which emphasised that it was rusted copper. Personally this has improved the colour as they are now brighter and more vivid. A screenshot below of changing the above on the selected part of the photo.

Next I wanted to edit the sky as it is dull and too grey. I used the magic wand on it so that all of the sky was highlighted. This did it perfectly so I copied it into a new layer. I changed the hue saturation so that the hue was -30, this made it blue. Then I increased the saturation so that the colour was intensified. I then increased the brightness so it looked lighter and more washed out. The screenshot below shows me changing the background (sky), making it look better.

Overall I am happy with what I achieved as it improved the picture completely and made a bad photo look greatly improved even though it does look a bit over saturated. Below is my final photo.