Improve Your Sky
I bet if you browse through your photos, you??™ll find many of your outdoor photos lack a certain
punch??”the sky is washed out, cloudless, or otherwise a little boring.
There??™s a good reason for that. When you compose a photograph, you usually concentrate
on the primary subject and pay little heed to the sky itself. Because the sky is a lot brighter than
your subject, the camera overexposes it and your sky ends up looking at least a little bleached.
Even if the sky is properly exposed, it sometimes just doesn??™t cooperate, and you??™ll have a
cloudless, boring sky that doesn??™t match the mood you were trying to get. By adding some snap
back into to your skies, you can dramatically improve your so-so photos.
Multiply Your Sky
The easiest way to fix a bleached sky is to multiply it. What does that mean? Well, you open a
photo, select the sky, and copy it to the clipboard. Then you paste copies of the sky back into the
image, using a seldom-used tool to multiply the colors in each layer of sky to produce deeper,
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darker colors. If even a little blue is peeking through your sky, this technique is ideal because it??™s
so easy to do.
For starters, find a picture with a weak sky. Open it in Photoshop Elements.
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