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> if you can whittle it down to 5 seconds, ill use it.

LOL.

> use neutrals and increase cyan?

"whites" and increase cyan and magenta, lower yellows, blacks to your choice for brightness. Fixing a sky, a while back, in 'variations' helped formulate the settings. There, as you know, it tells you what's being increased and what's decreased. Didn't realize the magenta factor before that and you can tell in my 'sky fixes' prior to that experience. Even now, no matter what method one is using the sky has to match the rest of the shot - I don't think it particularly does in my fix here, btw, but I was in a hurry ;-) Sometimes you can take the settings you use for the sky and duplicate the ratios (not the exact numbers) in the water, eg. but at either a lower or higher setting depending on the image. In some of my Maui pics the water is a deeper blue than the sky, but others the water is a lighter version of the sky blue.

I think the best use of selective color is when there is a 'difficult tree line' and many 'holes' in the trees, and not much wide expanse of sky where clouds are needed, sometimes - manual selection or even 'select' 'color range', and some masks leaves halos, 'feathers' (even when feather is at 0). Selective color is just changing the particular color (usually white) and doesn't effect the green leaves, brown branches, etc. - ie it is 'selective' :-)
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