Fixing a blown out sky

[deegolden]

Thank you for posting this and for doing a video too. I've never used the selective color adjustment layer before. I'm sure it will serve me well. It's always amazing to me how many different ways there are to do things in photoshop.

I hope your shoulder is all mended.

[hwellerlewis@ti]

Thanks Swampy for a great tutorial

So useful. Just found your tutorial after struggling for several days to fix what was otherwise a promising sunset pic from a viewpoint I'll probably never be able to find again!

[arphot]

Swampy, excellent tut. Thanks for taking the time to throw that together. Sometimes, I like to use the selection and delete the sky altogether and paste in my own from one of my many sky shots. Get well, soon. Wish I could PS your shoulder back to health for you ~ Kirk

[christo]

Swampy,
I would really like to view your "Fixing a blown out sky" video, but only have a 56K dial up connection, and it is taking forever to download. Is it possible to get this as a pdf file? If so where. I am in dire straights. We go to the printer on Friday, and I need to resolve this one as it is a cover photo.

[Swampy]

Christo...

The basic information you need is right in the tutorial step-by-step. I included 5 pictures of the progressive steps.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/rp-...n-out-sky.html

[christo]

Dear Swampy,

Sorry for taking so long to respond. This past week has been deadline and print week, always a hectic time resulting in little sleep, not enough time, etc. I will be off for a nap shortly.

I thought I downloaded the full sized images, but in checking today, it looks it was the thumbnails-hence the inability to se the images.

I will try this again-although tomorrow.

Thanks again for you patience and assistance. I will let you know how things turn out.

[dg12]

My first ever tutorial understood (by me) within a few minutes or ever.

I must have attention deficit disease or something..........

What's the subject?

Thanks Misses Swampy!

[christo]

What if the blown out portion is not the sky, but a white garage as in this case?

[Swampy]

Christo, This may not work as well on the garage door. I would first try a Shadow/Highlight adjustment and go from there. From your picture, I can't tell what the object or structure is to the right of the garage door (fence? shed?) and that may have to be handled separately.

[MaineTim]

I just wanted to add my thanks for this tutorial video. Great technique, exactly what I was looking for. I've been using it with great success on some B&W conversions, too.

Many thanks, Swampy!

[christo]

Thanks Swampy. It is the garage door and a fence. I was able to clone the the half of the garage door, flip it and skew it to fit. I then copied the fence to the right of that and pasted it in. It did not look too bad. The only problem I came up with was in removing the shadows on the grass. I used the clone tool, but it does not come out looking "realistic". Not sure how to handle that part of it, but need to get it sent off to the printer tomorrow, It will be in B&W, so am hoping it does not become that obvious. Thanks for the help.

[johern]

Phil,

I studied your filter/render/clouds solution (not sure if I can do this with GIMP) and was surprised and happy to see you took time to do the cloud reflections in the water too. That is some amazing work and I am going to try to do something like it myself.

I also just noticed that I am 'bumping' and old thread...but it seemed most appropriate to keep the comment in here, so I hope that's ok.

Jim

[ahope]

New to this forum, been lurking until I found my specific helps. Thanks so much for the sky tutorial. Excellent and well explained, still from 2005 thru 2008.

~Hope

[Swampy]

Thanks, Hope! Glad you found it useful. It's been one of the most viewed of all my tutorials.

[juggler]

Thank-You Swampy for the easy and effective tut.

[Belyama]

I know this is an older thread but wanted to say thanks for posting this tutorial and other hints, was so simple

[Swampy]

Juggler and Belyama.. Thanks for saying thanks! :-)

[ahope]

Hey Swampy,
A shared your sky tut with some friends. They all love you for it, even in 2009!
~Hope

[Swampy]

Thanks for the note, Hope! It has saved my tush a number of times.

[MiningArt]

Saw this tut and thought I would give it a try, thanks.

[Swampy]

Great job, MA!

[MrShilts]

Pretty cool technique I do something similar to that to remove blown out skies.

[ahope]

If you have other techniques for fixing blow out sky, please share it.
Thanks, Hope

[will55]

Very good explanation , would this work with Photoshop Elements as well?

[Swampy]

Hi, Will. Welcome to RetouchPro! Explore and Enjoy!

Fixing the blownout sky should be doable in Elements assuming you have the "Selective Color" adjustment available. I don't use PE so I don't know. Look around in your drop down menus for it.