I've been away for a few days (weeks). Sorry... I'll try my best to catch up over the next several days.
I ran across this article in the latest (April 2008) issue of Popular Photography magazine and gave it a quick try with an image from a Colorado trip a couple of years back. It's a nice approach to subtly fixing over exposed sky in an image. I've always hated the "fringe" you get when trying to alter a sky in Photoshop. I like the way I can go back and alter the layer mask to change the adjustment. Seems like I'm always looking at images I've edited previously and wondered why I edited them the way I did. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/5168/how-to-fix-the-sky.html
By the way, it worked for me in CS2 as written.
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I tried this technique last evening and found that you have to be careful about overdoing the skies. It is easy to make them look unrealistic. I found that using the magic wand was a bit easier than the lasso tool to make the sky selection. CS3 has a new magnetic lasso selection tool that appears to be much easier than the standard lasso tool, but I could not get the hang of it. I need to spend more time working with this tool.
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