Over Exposed Sky

[Dianne]

Excuse me if this has already been covered, but I would like some help to fix an over-exposed sky. A cloudy off white sky that looks very over-exposed, but the rest of the photo looks just right. Is there a way to fix this?

[Tom]

Hi Dianne,

an over-exposed part of a picture can't generaly be correctly restored if the RGB colors have an index number near by zero.
This part is burned and contains too few available informations to be processed with a realistic result.
You can only replace the sky by an other :
- duplicate your picture and increase the gammas on the duplicata up till the sky is even more white.
- apply the magic wand on the white part to select
- menu Selection / copy the form
- activate the original picture and menu Selection / Paste the form
- place the form at its right position, generaly with arrow up key.
- open a new picture with a suitable sky and select the part to copy
- activate the original picture and paste into the selection
- right clic in the paste to adjust size and opacity, and move the paste with maintain down the left button of the mouse.

So, you can obtain somthing like that :
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 2/_23.html
Mind only that google does'n know terms for photo and translate layer as copy and blend as fusion.