Lightroom 3 - Grey Sky Quick Fix

How to use the graduated filter tool in Lightroom 3 as a quick fix for plain grey or white skies on your photographs. This technique is best used on skies which are complete "white-out" or "grey-out" with little to no cloud shapes or details. You can reduce the clarity and sharpness attributes of the filter to remove cloud detail, but if too much of it remains then the effect will stand out as being an obvious post-edit.

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[danielson19uk]

Extremely useful.

Thanks for taking the time to show this.

I would really like to see some more Lightroom tutorials from you as the 'Keyword' video you did was great.

[starfedrogue]

@danielson19uk Glad you found the videos useful! I will try to make more Lightroom videos as I know that it's a very popular package, and frankly Adobe's own videos and the ones they endorse are far too simplistic to be of much use (except for Julieanne Kost's vids, which are usually very good). If there's anything you'd like to see covered let me know.

[AGrandt]

Well done, the problem with the trick though, is that now the sky looks brilliant, but the landscape is still lit by the overcast skies, and not the clear sharp lighting one expects from direct sunlight.

[starfedrogue]

@AGrandt True, but that's a problem that's much easier to fix!

[twistedleafpro]

Very nice man.. Well done :)

[starfedrogue]

@twistedleafpro Glad you liked ;)

[CAJUNNSC]

Wow I guess I would benefit if I read directions which I am not so good about doing. I just tried your fix and man what a time savings it is. Turned out great, fixed it within five seconds first try. Press M as mentioned and you're half way there. Thanks Good Info !

[mattislarsson]

Great job, thanks!

[danielson19uk]

@starfedrogue Totally agree on the Adobe vids. Be great to see some tips on importing and exporting file options if you have time in the future and maybe an overview of the different tools in the editing section of Lightroom. Cheers mate ;)

[ONIProductionsLtd]

Thanks, knew I could easily do this with Lightroom but never had to when I had the trial. Can't wait til I can afford it ha thankfully college students can get it for $80 instead of $300 haha and I'm not gonna pirate it. Great tutorial1