2 days of photoshop for this?

I have tried like everything I could figure out to do, every tutorial that I have found, but nothing seems to work with this picture! This, that is so simple to do, is the most I could come up with, that actually came out like something not that horrible!

As you might understand, my photography inspiration is not at the top at the time. I just have so much to do, with school and everything! But, soon I will take some time out for photography too. I promise. But Photoshop has been a big part of my days in this time. I think its maybe because I cam work in Photoshop both on school, at home or everywhere else, as long as I bring my computer with me...

I'm really sorry for not uploading or updating anything lately...

Sunlight photo - Before and after

When I find a picture in my archive or take a photo that I'm not that happy with, I try to play in photoshop to maybe do it a little bit better. This is a example of that. Just take a look at this picture here:

 This is the original picture. When I took this into photoshop, I took auto tone and auto contrast on the whole picture, duplicated the background. and took auto color, then erased the sky, so the auto color just is on the water and mountain. Then I set the exposure and gamma correction to 0,30 on the sky, and I don't remember exactly on the rest. And all this easy work ended up with this:

What do you think of the final result? Not too much done, but it did a big difference in the photo!