Sky Enhancement
Software : Photoshop CS2
Level : Advance

Concept: Sometimes you get the image with a pale background and the overall picture doesn't look as effective as it should be. Adobe Photoshop has the facility of blending mode that can be used to enhance the background. There are many methods to do the enhancement but here in this lessons, we have used color burn mode of the layer blending. You need to erase the portion of the image which you wish keep original and unchanged without colorburn.

1. Open Photoshop. Open the image to work with sky enhancement.

2. Make a duplicate of the background layer and keep the duplicate layer selected. Change the top layer mode to "Color Burn"

3. We need to reveal dark portion on the ground under the sky. Keep the top layer selected. Select Eraser Tool. Choose soft brush and erase the portion you want to reveal from the bottom layer. The layer palette will look like this.

4. The will get the enhanced sky as shown in the following image.