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Hi Gail
You have replaced the sky with a solid colour. If you look at a real sky it lightens and gets less saturated as you go down to the horizon.
You could use another photograph and mask it so that it replaces the sky or, if you want a clear blue sky, you could do this.
Add a Gradient Fill layer (Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient) and set the Blending mode to "Darken"
Click on the gradient and adjust it so it goes from blue to white and the opacity reduces as shown.
Finally right click on the laye
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Hi Gail
There was nothing attached to your post. Don't worry too much about the file size - the max for an image attachment is 8MB. Just attach a reasonably detailed jpeg using the link at the top of the posting box.
Photoshop is the right tool to do this work. I will be dropping offline shortly - but will pick up in the morning, if no one else has picked this up for you in the meantime.
Dave
thanks for the reply. I did manage to blue up the sky but it looks unnatural, so still need help. gail
Hi Gail
You have replaced the sky with a solid colour. If you look at a real sky it lightens and gets less saturated as you go down to the horizon.
You could use another photograph and mask it so that it replaces the sky or, if you want a clear blue sky, you could do this.
Add a Gradient Fill layer (Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient) and set the Blending mode to "Darken"
Click on the gradient and adjust it so it goes from blue to white and the opacity reduces as shown.
Finally right click on the layer and select Blending Options.
Set "blend if" as shown (you will need to Alt click on the slider to "split it). This will mean it does not touch the mountains and reduce the opacity until it looks right
Finally I used crop to straighten the water edge
Dave
Good point Dag
Gail
Just to follow up on Dag's point, I Have added two curves adjustment layers above the original image.
The first is masked with a gradient (on a mask White shows the layer black makes it transparent or in the case of an adjustment it hides the adjustment).
The second was a similar curve but masked only to impact the top of the 2nd peak.
I hope that gets you started
Dave
If you shoot raw, you can recover some highlight detail - raw files contain a lot more information than what's initially visible.
In the example below I used a graduated filter in Camera Raw in the top left corner with Highlights set to -100.
This retrieved color and detail in the overexposed sky.
When shooting raw, do as much work as you can in Camera Raw - the editing you do there is non-destructive, it doesn't change any image pixels, and you can always go back to the image and do further edits, or reverse what you did before without doing any damage.
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