

Select the mask and use SHIFT+K on the keyboard to invert this layer Under the General tab in Color Balance tool select Blend Mode Color then click on Adjustment tab, Color Levels: Select layer copy(2)of background, add adjustment layer Color Balance the layer shall be between copy(2)of background and the mask. Now will you have 2 layers and 1 group layer (Name that group to "sky") including copy (2) of background and the mask. The have I made a mask of the selection, I use Show selection. I have select the sky with magic wand the adjust with freehand lasso

I make on more copy of background "Copy (2)of Background" this layer have I use to make a mask so the blend mod have I set to Normal. I make a copy of background with Duplicate change blend mode for the new layer to Overlay I also did a selection on the sky with the magic wand and applied a heavy dose of noise reduction to keep it smooth. The sky is pretty much a gray, and there was not much that I could do for the color, however, the histogram was very flat on the light end and a quick levels adjustment really helped the shot. Rampant flowers edited this topic ages ago. The grey sky should now be replaced by the one in the image underneath. Touch up mask layer if required, gaussian blur 1 pixel to soften edges may help. (An alternative method would be to use the background eraser instead of steps 4-7)ĥ. Select the balloons - try the magic wand on the grey sky and (holding the shift key) also the foreground then 'invert selection' to get a start, then refine it using the 'edit selection' function. Move duplicate balloon layer to top of stack.Ĥ. Copy and paste the new sky as a new layer.ģ. The alternative is to replace the sky with that from another photo:ġ. You could just select the sky with a magic wand with high tolerance and adjust the hue set to colourise to turn it blue - but I don't think the result would be much good. Well a quick answer.is to do a White Balance.this is accomplished by opening Levels and then selecting Level which gives the White Balance.īTW there does not seem to be any detail in the sky to bring out. I am trying to fix the sky in this photo.
