I have some photos with a grey sky seen behind gum trees. When I copy and paste a blue sky from another photo, the trees take on a silver sheen at the ends of their branches. I have selected the grey sky in the original photo with the magic wand using various tolerances from 1 to 100, but this does not seem to alter the problem. Perhaps I need to be able to darken the leaves on the trees. How can this be done. OR is there another way to solve this problem – any help greatly appreciated
Judy, I don’t know how you are selecting the sky, but, I would use the Select > Color Range tool and then Select > Modify and enlarge by 1 pixel. Leave the selection as is. This should get a little more into the trees. Then I would copy a sky I wanted with Ctrl + C. In the image where you want to place the sky, I would Edit > paste into and see how it looks. With the paste into choice, you can still move the sky around to get the result you want.
White sky is the bane of all photographers. Fixing it can be a tedious process. I have found that masking in any of its various forms is the first step in correction. After the mask, there are several gradients you can either create or download that serve as a nice "substitute" sky. Depending on their opacity and saturation, you can also introduce clouds, etc. into the sky for variation. Remember layers as well. Layers don’t permanently change the pixels until you flatten the piece for printing. Therefore, you can play with them until you get what you want without destroying your original.
One of the best tutorials I found is located at www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/index.shtml. Kudos to Michael Reichman for his site.
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