Launchpad C, Lesson 6: Replacing the Sky

There's a "late for the sky" joke here somewhere, but I can't quite figure it out right now.

Anyway, this was a cool part of the assignment. Once again, it took a lot of time (I HAD to pick a tree, rather than a simple building!), but it was quite enlightening to see what could be done.

First I fixed the sky with a sky gradient taken from another picture with a "good" sky. Then I painted out all the gray that was left using the mask. Then I used an adjustment layer to lighten the rest of the picture up and make it look a bit sunnier. And then I used Image-Adjustment-Hue/Saturation to slightly alter the color of the water, so that it would seem to be reflecting a bluer sky.