Check out the SKY!!???!!!

[specialist]

Hmmm.. I have been really curious on how this picture was done.. I already asked the photographer if he used a filter or he just edited it.. He told me he edited it but had no time to explain it because he was running late... So if anyone can help me how to edit the sky/clouds to have that certain color, I would be so thankful!!.. Hmm ive seen some pictures that had like a real bluish hue and orange too... Thank you in advance...

[epoh]

It looks just like a colorcast over the whole top of the photo. If you look at the trees, you'll see they have the colorcast too.

[specialist]

If ya'll dont mind.. Can ya'll list the step by step process if its not to much.. Thank you..

[babybluetx23]

it looks like they burned it to me. I could be wrong though.

[boxofrocks]

Looks like the Photoshop gradient tool to me.

[epoh]

I'm using Photoshop CS2, it should be pretty much the same in other version.

Open the photo. Create a new layer. Select the gradient tool (same button as the bucket-fill tool). On the top tool-bar, click on the gradient picker and choose the 'Foreground to Transparent' option. It's the second one on mine, it's got color on the top left and fades to the gray box pattern. Now select the color you want to use. Click on the top of the photo and hold, drag down to somewhere around the horizon line and leg to. Voila.

Personally, I think it looks more realistic if you switched the layer blending to 'Multiply.'

Origional photo:


Photo with colorcast sky:


Photo with colorcast (multiplied) sky:

[babybluetx23]

ohhhh ok I see the gradiation now! Yeah!

[specialist]

Wow! I really love TPF!! Alot of helpful and humble people that have great knowledge in this industry!! Thank you Amy for listing the steps! I appreciate it!

[epoh]

NP. If you play around with the layers more you can probably do a much better job than that guy did, or what I did in just a few mins.

[lulalake]

This also could be a graduated filter. There are tons of them out there.

Cheers

Jules

[Pikachu]

Looks suspiciously like a tobacco graduated filter to me....

[Michelle Allmon]

wow, thanks, i'm gonna play with that, too!

[Michelle Allmon]

ps - everytime i see "specialist" on the forum i think of that dead milkmen song. anybody know what i'm talking about?

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Yeah you can go old school and get a set of graduated filters of various colors and color depths and set them up to where the gradiant line comes runs across the field of view where you want it.

The Cokin system is a common one that uses square gels that set in a holder in front of your lens and allows you to shift the filter to shift the gradient line so that it won't necessarily have to be in the middle of the picture frame.
Little article and PS review on using Graduated filters
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...cts_balis.html

I usually don't like how GF's work but in some cases they are usefull especially when you are shooting a scene with high contrast between the below horizon and above horizon shots, so Neutral Density filters are used quite often by large format shooters doing mountanious landscapes.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...goryNavigation

[Michelle Allmon]

i like cokin filters, i used to read a catalog at work years ago and drool.

here's a pretty sweet idiot story for ya.

we had the holders with the circle hole. we had soft focus filters. we had vignetting from the holder. we didn't want it. hmmm. what to do.

so we held the filter in our fingers in front of the lens for about 2 years.

one day i was thinking myself to sleep as i usually do and it occurred to me to zoom in and take a step back.

yeah, that worked. *IDIOT*