!! My quick and easy "Sky Fix"- #2 !!

As some of you already know, I recently posted a thread titled
!! My quick and easy "Sky Fix" !!
Well.... In my never ending quest to find shortcuts in CS2, I came up with this.
I don't know if I'm "origional", or if this technique has already been discused here, or elsewhere, but in all my searching to learn, I haven't seen this method. This is quick, and easy. I have had success on .jpeg, .tiff, .psd, and raw, and works well on a sky that's not screwed-up, if you just need to enhance it a little.
No messed-up treeline.
Here's how:
Open photo in CS2 ( other ver. that allow gradient "color burn" will probably work)
Magic Wand>sky
Gradient Tool>choose Blue of your choice>choose Linear>
Mode ColorBurn>choose Opacity (I've had best success between 40-70 % )
drag gradient from top of photo to treeline. Badda Bing, done deal.
experiment with opacity to get results you want.
I edited a gradient, to create my own sky blue.

origional

Add a quick play with this pic. There's a bit of a halo on the treeline, but it was a quick play...

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Nice work!

Nice PP Mike! It is obvious your Photoshop skills extend past framing scripts.

Mike, would you mind explaining what you did? I'm trying to learn, and don't see the "halo" you fixed?

replied to your PM.

The halo wasn't in the origonal, it was after I adjusted and sharpened. Having said that, on a second look it doesn't look too bad.

You could elimoinate that halo with a feathered selection of the sky on a mask. Once your action is done just change the pen to black and remove the halo.

Here's my take. I selected the sky, made a layer from the selection and changed the blending mode to Linear Burn. Used a little curves and levels on the foreground.

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