How can I make clouds whiter

[DayDreamer]

I can adjust saturation with all colours - red, green, yellow, blue, cyan & magenta but what do I do to make the whites whiter especially in the cloudy sky shots. Why is there no slider for white

Help would be useful - please

 

[arad85]

What software? If LR4, it's the whites slider

 

[Gaz J]

What editing software are you using.

If you are using photoshop you can make sure that you have used levels to bring the white and black points in to the edge of the histogram to get a full tonal range. If you press ALT and then bring the sliders in you can see when you're clipping the white and black pixels.

You can use an adjustment layer for the clouds and then blend the two layers.

 

[DayDreamer]

What software? If LR4, it's the whites slider

CS4 & PE10 but will get Lightroom when I upgrade my laptop which is XP on which LR4 doesn't work.

 

[DayDreamer]

What editing software are you using.

If you are using photoshop you can make sure that you have used levels to bring the white and black points in to the edge of the histogram to get a full tonal range. If you press ALT and then bring the sliders in you can see when you're clipping the white and black pixels.

You can use an adjustment layer for the clouds and then blend the two layers.

Thanks for that I will take a look in Photoshop as I have version CS4.

PS Just looked and can see I need to spend more time getting my head in tutorials. Or get LR4 if there is a white slider

 

[TheDrift-]

Thanks for that I will take a look in Photoshop as I have version CS4.

PS Just looked and can see I need to spend more time getting my head in tutorials. Or get LR4 if there is a white slider

few way of the top of my head
in ps4 try selective colour, whites, and reduce the black.

You could also use a solid white fill layer set to soft light blend mode, mask, invert and paint white on the mask.

Color range, select whites, fill with white and reduce opacity.

curves and levels as already suggested, if you have cs4 you should have camera raw, that should have some useful tools

 

[DayDreamer]

few way of the top of my head
in ps4 try selective colour, whites, and reduce the black.

You could also use a solid white fill layer set to soft light blend mode, mask, invert and paint white on the mask.

Color range, select whites, file with white and reduce opacity.

curves and levels as already suggested, if you have cs4 you should have camera raw, that should have some useful tools

Thanks Shaun I will take a look at each of these - probably tomorrow now as evenings aren't my best of times.

PS Just taken a look and can see in CS4 opening as RAW and using curves how the clouds go whiter. Will keep experimenting.

 

[swanseamale47]

Or just dodge the clouds with the dodge tool set to highlights and a low opacity.

 

[EOS_JD]

Or just dodge the clouds with the dodge tool set to highlights and a low opacity.

That's what I was going to say

 

[TheDrift-]

Or just dodge the clouds with the dodge tool set to highlights and a low opacity.

Lol or that too

Too caught up in trying to think of ways of doing global changes.

I normally end up doing the opposite, and darken the sky to increase colour and bring back details.

 

[DayDreamer]

Or just dodge the clouds with the dodge tool set to highlights and a low opacity.

Thanks Wayne so much as this way works really well on the shots I am currently messing (PP) with and thanks Jim & Shaun for your input