CS3 brush advice

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I have taken a series of shots of a subject in an overcast setting. Due to the clouds being pretty bleak and covering the whole of the sky the shot has exposed on the subject and blown out the highlights of the clouds and turned the sky into a near white out. You can see some odd bit of detail and if I convert the file from RAW in Photoshop CS3 I can actually get the clouds to look quite good. But, if I alter all the highlights and do what I do it then changes all of the settings for the whole of the photo and ruins it. The clouds get sorted but then the subject looks under exposed.

I have seen something on a tv program once where a photographer was brushing the clouds and it was making the necessary changes to where he applied the brush.

Is there anyway I can apply a setting to my brush in CS3 so I can highlight and brush over the clouds so that the clouds would be "toned down"?

I hope the above makes sense. thanks
 
If you can get the Clouds to look "quite good" as you put it then
Save that image, use as a separate layer.
Then place the original image on top of that layer,
and erase as required to bring the sky out

That would be better than using the "burn tool" as that tends to look drab and unnatural
 
Make 2 different versions, one for the sky and one for the foreground, layer them together, and use a layer mask to show the cloud layer through (more control than the eraser)
 
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