pick apart a pic

Fun Pic


Before

After

List of steps I did to make this picture better

1. Cropping the picture, I didn't want to at first but
   I ended up doing so

2. Then I took the sponge tool and went over the
   trees to brighten them, instead of making them blurry
   and their trunks stick out from the snow

3. then I took the dodge tool and made it a bit brighter in
   white areas and to have it like more daylight
   and some of the snow caped ares