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I’ve done my share of complaining of late. Well, I’m not really a complainer by character. But I sure have noticed the weather being cooler and rainier than usual. My friends have commented on this too.

Well, here’s the silver lining - great sky! The clouds have been full of texture and shape. Even the rain has added a glistening sheen to the sidewalks, flowers, trees, and streets.

And so, the header of my blog for June is a photo of a recent stormy sky. Yes, it has been modified a bit in Photoshop. I used a Hot Tip from Lynda.com that I read about just this morning. The tip was all about how to adjust skin tones using the Lab Color mode, but I thought I could as easily use the Lab Color mode to adjust the sky tones.

Here’s a before and after:

Can you see that the AFTER image has some more depth by darkening the different channels in Lab Mode? In the original tip, the subject was a man’s face which was adjusted to give him a bit of a tan.

I’m learning to enjoy the energetic skies that the wet weather brings.