How to make dull sky blue?

[PutinHuilo]

I was able to make sky more blue i think using Image > Adjust > Hue Saturation then manipulating blue color or other way i cannot remember, cannot repeat anymore.
Can someone suggest a working to produce same results without using colorize so tree branches don't change color.

Most certain i did not use a layer mask to mask the tree branches, so please in your answer don't suggest this.

 

[Rich54]

Take a look at this tutorial. There are many others if you query YouTube for Photoshop Blend If.

 

[IamSam]

I still prefer the old trued and tried alpha channel method.

Black and white alpha channel...

Inverse


Alpha channel used as a layer mask.

 

[PutinHuilo]

Take a look at this tutorial. There are many others if you query YouTube for Photoshop Blend If.

I still prefer the old trued and tried alpha channel method.

Black and white alpha channel...

Thank you, however i was trying to see what options i could use to actually change shade of existing to more blue defined color, rather than use external image to replace old sky.




P.S. There's so many different options in PH that are slight variations of other tools and filters (they have to show something new in new releases, cannot just charge people for adding new version number every year ).
This "blend if" is basically a shortcut for layer mask, all same functionality in a more straight forward way could be achieved using layer masks. Of course for people with lots of PS experience having this shortcut can speed up their workflow, however someone who does not have good understanding of basic how Photoshop works (layer masks) can get very confused trying to remember and repeat steps shown in this particular video taking it as bible on HOWTO do particular thing...

This is why i did not learn Photoshop past basic usage for 15 years i am using it, all videos and courses were too confusing, instead of teach basics of how PS works they go in great details giving particular techniques how to achieve something using particular PS tools.

 

[IamSam]

Thank you, however i was trying to see what options i could use to actually change shade of existing to more blue defined color, rather than use external image to replace old sky.

That's what I did. I did not change out the background for a new one. I just masked everything but the sky so they would not be blue.

 

[thebestcpu]

Hi @PutinHuilo
I would have to agree with you about both the difficulty of PS and also the problems with many tutorials.
As there are many ways to achieve the exact same result I cannot say for sure how you did it either.
Yet I can get a very close match with a simple curves adjustment Layer adjusting the R,G,B curves individually.
Those curves also suggest you may have just used a Photo Filter adjustment Layer with the color set to the cyan/blue range.
Here is the settings for the curves adjustment Layer and the resulting image:

 

[thebestcpu]

I also got a very close match using the photo filer adjustment Layer by itself:






Hope the last two examples help.

John Wheeler

 

[PutinHuilo]

Thank you, guess how to use "curves" is what i need to learn next.