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Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and some other programs, there is an easy way to adjust an overexposed. overwhite sky in some photos (not all).

Let's look at one.

As you may note we have selected the entire sky with the magic wand tool. Then we copy it into the clipboard. Then we turn off the background being displayed so that we see the new layers without the original image.

The next step we create a new layer and following that, we then paste the sky we have copied into that new layer.

We then go to the layers menu and create a new adjustment layer, with levels as its type.

It is important to check the Group With Previous Layer check box.

Accept the defaults and click ok, as shown below.

Above the Layers display is a drop down list. The default would say normal but we want to select Multiply, as is shown below.

This is what it looks like, a much darker sky essentialy the same sky multiplied.

We control the amount of blue by using the opacity slider on the adjustment layer in this case set to a mild 61%.

The finished sky is only a bit bluer, because it looks stupid to overdo this.

Look below to see the original

This is not the only solution to this, but it is an easy one and is the actual sky rather than a gradient or a tint or a replacement sky.

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