Sky modifications in Photo Shop

I have some great shots of the Tetons at dusk. But in order to get the pictures of the Mountains and animals, the sky is blown out. How do you modify the sky color back to the original blue in Photo shop.

Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions.

For something jagged like mountains where the straight line of an ND filter would be too obvious (including a grad ND), you can bracket your shots and blend two exposures in post.

The "in camera" solution is to shoot really early or quite late when the overall dynamic range is more manageable.

If your sky isn't too far gone (and you shot in raw), you may be able to recover your sky via the Revovery slider in LR or ACR.

Try "blending" the pictures where you mask the sky and ground separately and independently adjust the exposure. You can also play around with the hue/saturation to get the sky color the way you want it. If you lost cloud detail in an overexposed sky, you won't be able to get that back though.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #14623201
For something jagged like mountains where the straight line of an ND filter would be too obvious (including a grad ND), you can bracket your shots and blend two exposures in post.

The "in camera" solution is to shoot really early or quite late when the overall dynamic range is more manageable.

If your sky isn't too far gone (and you shot in raw), you may be able to recover your sky via the Revovery slider in LR or ACR.

You can also play with the luminance/hue/saturati​on sliders if you have any color left in the sky. You can over do it and get some halos quite easily though.

If you've already been, have no chance of going back and the photos you have are totally blown in the skies, your only choice is sky replacement.

Scour your archives for nice looking skies and then mask them in to your Teton skies - a google on layer masking/exposure blending should give you what you need to accomplish this. Unfortunately, this is not a great option - but it's the only one you may have left. You'll have to deal with issues related to scale, reflections, shadows and lighting in the foreground that may prove to be very difficult when trying to add in a sky that never happened in that location.

MNUplander has the solution: replace the sky. I make a point of photographing interesting skies with various cloud formations. That way I almost always have a good choice for a replacement sky.