Even if it’s one of the simplest manipulations of your original picture, it’s also one of the most effective. It’s very useful when the weather its self creates tones of grey and the adjustments of hue and saturation won’t help. All you have to do is to go to the Image menu in Adobe Photoshop: Image -> Adjustments -> Selective Color. Choose from the Colors the Neutrals Option and modify the tones as you wish. In my example, I added Cyan and decreased the Yellow to obtain bluish Relative (not Absolute) tones instead of grey, then a bit of Magenta to be as natural as possible.
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Second I got rid of the yellowish color on the bottom of the clouds using the same method. Now let’s compare the original with the manipulated photo and conclude: it’s definitely better with the lilac clouds than the grey ones. I might have a bit overreacted with the saturation of that lilac… but hey… this is abstract not nature! :P
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