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Turning the sky blue in Photoshop

Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Do you find that whenever you has the time to take your camera out to shoot some photos and yet the weather is so gloomy that you feel like going back to your bed and rot away? Here is a little trick to make dull and grey sky become bright blue sky in Photoshop!

Step 1: Open the photo in Photoshop. You need to create a new adjustment layer for colour balancing. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Colour Balance. Click ok to continue.

Step 2: The Colour Balance dialog will appear and drag the top slider to the left and the bottom slider towards the right. This will create an bluish cast effect on WHOLE of your photo. Keep playing with the sliders and stop until the sky reaches the level of blue colour you wanted. Ignore that the buildings and foreground subjects turn bluish also.

Step 3: See if yourForeground colour is black in colour, if not press "X" to switch to black. Then press Alt-Backspace to fill the adjustment layer mask with black. The black mask will hide any bluish cast that you had created.

Step 4: Now if black covers the bluish cast, white colour will make the blue colour comes back. Just simply press "X" again to switch foreground colour to white and select a suitable brush size with "0%" hardness. Paint over the sky to make the blue colour appears! Use a smaller brush if you want to paint over a small and tight area.

Additional Tips: You might want to play with Photo Filters instead of Colour Balance. Just choose the Photo Fliter mode instead of Colour Balance when you are creating a new adjustment layer.

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