Help with creating blue sky for real estate images

[LCKT13]

PhotoShopElements 3.0 Mac Mini OS 10+

i am a real estate photographer where many agents request a blue sky on cloudy days. how do i create on using Elements and not a supreme power?

1. if i need to create a new layer and fill with blue how do i do that? step by step please?
2. or can i use a tool and add blue just to the sky?

thanks
Hank of California:rolleyes:

[kayser]

Hi Hank,

This has come up before, check out this thread and see if it helps:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?p=66736


(http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533&highlight=blue)

[karen donnybrook]

Welcome to the forum Hank. Good luck with your blue skies :)

[jwhitten]

There is a video tutorial in the subscriber area titled "Changing Background" that might help you.

I have also found that often, if I use a Levels adjustment layer, I can wash out the sky making it much easier to select.

If the photo you are trying to repair has trees with lots of leaves or other intricate patterns, you may have trouble with fringe, but if the sky is open it should not be that hard.

Joe

[PaulH]

I use a seperate layer - just because it's easier to move,adjust,etc.

I generally use a piece of sky from an existing photo.

Some actually shoot and keep a selection of sky shots (and clouds) for fill purposes.

[mom to 4]

That's what I do. When it is a beautiful day, I take a couple of shots of the sky and just stick them in a folder for when I need a better sky.

[Wendy]

Hi ....

... if you look at the tutorial Joe suggested then you can use that method to either make a new sky or you can insert sky from another image into it. Either way you new sky is on it own layer :)

Wendy

[jwhitten]

I do that too. I have several hundred cloud photos and a series of moon photos in all phases. I just moved to Denver from Texas about a year ago and the cloud formations here are really beautiful and different from what I was accustomed to seeing in Texas. With a digital camera, it's hard to resist taking photos of clouds several times a week.

When I take a photo on a gray day, I just delete the sky and insert a nicer sky behind the foreground.

With digital cameras and editing software, pushing the shutter release is only the beginning of the image creation process.

Joe

[Bernie K]

PhotoShopElements 3.0 Mac Mini OS 10+

i am a real estate photographer where many agents request a blue sky on cloudy days. how do i create on using Elements and not a supreme power?

1. if i need to create a new layer and fill with blue how do i do that? step by step please?
2. or can i use a tool and add blue just to the sky?

thanks
Hank of California:rolleyes:


Hi Hank

Instructions on how to add a blue sky are in the Photoshop elements 4.0 bonus edition.
Hope I responded OK. This is my first response.