need some help with the sky

[Davidtxs]

Hey I want to get some of the yucky colors out of the bottom part of the sky any suggestions ??

[mom2aidan]

not sure this is what you were going for but this is my try...love drag racing...dont go very often

[The Loft Studios]

It looks like a lot of smog (maybe from the exhaust) down the track.
Here is what I was able to do with masking and using a combination of contrast and saturation.

[Davidtxs]

Thanks yall Mark it looks like they are racin into a duststorm lol kinda cool tho

[sniperkittie]

Create a cutout of everything except the sky. Add a layer below that and create a gradient for the sky using colors of you choice. Go back to you cut out and use an erase tool set very weak to tune up. You may have to do a little airbrush to add some also.

[SevenAndMe]

Would a good quality uv filter help with shots like these?

[Davidtxs]

Thanks Jack Ill give that a try

Davidtxs added 0 Minutes and 50 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Originally Posted by SevenAndMe

Would a good quality uv filter help with shots like these?

It was shot with a 10.5 so no filters can be used lol good idea tho

[Donb10]

Using photoshop CS4, I used bridge to open your jpeg file in camera raw. I then used their new gradient filter and reduced the exposure to a -25 in the lower part of the sky.

[texkam]

In photoshop: If you run your cursor across the bottom sky and look at the CMYK "info" palette you'll notice an abundance of yellow; 10,15,20% in places. So, select the sky, feather your selection 1or 2 pixels so you don't get a hard edge, then go to "selective color" under image/adjustments. Working within the colors white, yellow and neutral you should be able to decrease the yellow by moving the slider. Experiment, check/uncheck the preview, eyeball it and look at the info palette. It will show you the before and after percentages. Good luck.