In just a few easy clicks, today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner walks us through how to create that trendy dark/orange sky in our photographs. Instead of using Adobe Photoshop CS4, today’s video is actually an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 video tutorial (Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is a fantastic pieces of software that costs less than half the price of Adobe Photoshop CS4).

This “Photoshop Monday” edition of the Video Corner is a quick video (3.5 minutes) that covers an easy, but effective, trick in Photoshop that mimicks the effects of a circular polarizer or a graduated neutral density filter. Using this quick and simple technique, you can quickly add some umph to boring blue skies by making them darker and more dramatic. As always, although this tutorial is done in Adobe Photoshop, the technique discussed can also be duplicated in other post-processing programs like Paint Shop Pro and the GIMP.