tutorial need to make sky blue dark

Hi
i need a cs3 or cs2 photoshop tutorial
in some photo i have a light azure-white sky

i tried curve but i'm not able to make it dark blue

why don't make a tutorial to correct colors

thanks

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Have you tried masking the area of the sky and then editing?

Anke wrote in post #3301124
Have you tried masking the area of the sky and then editing?

yes
but what could i use to make more dark
hue -selective color layer?

I work in elements but you have these controls in CS2, you could try putting a black to transparent gradient adjustment layer on the image. Change the blend to overlay on the gradient and adjust the gradient fill to match your skyline. Or you could do a hue and saturation adjustment and choose to edit blue and adjust the saturation.

make one of the foreground with corrected color and exposure. then make another one with the sky, darkening the sky by using Hue/saturation. move those sliders till you get the color you want.
then, on the sky layer, apply a layer mask using the layes pallet and set opacity to 50%, then by using black paint, paint in the parts that cover the foreground. If you make a mistake, use white paint to un-erase them. work slowly so you dont make a mistake.
once you are done, flatten it.

easy huh?

Layer > New Fill > Solid Color ,,,,, then pick a blue you like click ok ,, set blending mode to Color ,,, paint on the mask with black to bring what you want back ,, click on the color to adjust to the tone blue you want .

Rod

use the gradient tool...

I realize this won't help with your current dilemma, but I STRONGLY recommend for the future that you get yourself a high quality circular polarizer filter.

I used to run into the situation you have here. Granted, by PS skills are not expert so whatever "fix" I'd come up with always looked either fake, somehow lacking or just not quite right for what I was trying to achieve.

I got my CP earlier this year and pretty much leave it permanently attached to my 17-40L. It's easy to use and you can quickly "dial in" the desired sky darkening effect. the more you create properly upfront, the less you have to correct later in with photoshop . - Stu

ACR 4.0 can do a lot with jpegs. Also your image does need a polarizer and some better exposure control. It's way too hot.

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Try
Select the sky, ctrl J to copy this to a new layer. And use apply image with the layer set to layer 1, and the blending set to multiply. Repeat as many times as needed.

all these would work. I personally would mask it off, create a hue/sat adjustment layer and play with the opacity to get what I want.

Or adjust the exposure properly and hit the recovery slider pretty hard.