Add A Grad (Or Two!)

Select the ‘Graduated Filter’ tool and, in the control panel, set ‘Exposure’ to -0.50 using the plus or minus buttons alongside the slider (doing it this way will zero all the other sliders). Now increase the ‘Clarity’ slider to boost definition. Use an aggressive setting of +100, and click-and-drag from the top of the screen to pull down a grad to about the halfway point. You’ll see the sky get even richer. If the effect is too strong, reduce Clarity to suit your image. Now pull up another grad from the bottom to around the halfway mark. Once you’ve done this, increase ‘Exposure’ to brighten the foreground (we’ve used +0.75 here) and adjust ‘Clarity’ to add a little extra definition. If you find the ‘Graduated Filter’ lines distracting, you can switch them off by unticking the ‘Show Overlay’ box at the bottom.