PS advice needed

I'm relatively new to all this digital stuff and one (of many) problems I haven't been able to figure out is how to burn blue skies so the effect isn't obvious....i.e. no visible transition zone. In this image I've tried burning the left side of the sky so it blended in tonality-wise with the rest of the sky but can't get it right. What technique do you use or should I just live with it or hit the delete key?

I should mention that I've tried selecting the light area then running a levels adjustment layer and gaussian blur. I've also tried painting with a soft-edged brush.

Thanks in advance.

I can think of quite a few ways to do it, but the easiest way IMO is to actually use the burning tool.

1. Select the burn tool, then set the exposure percentage really low, like about 7-10%.

2. Then set your brush size quite large, in the range of 1000, or 1500, then from the outside edge start softly burning in the corner.

That should do it.

Mark, I don't have near the skil with PS that Zack does but his suggestions is how I would handle it as well

I'd create a new layer and use the gradient tool to drop one or more gradients down from the top until it looks as you want. Use 10% opacity or less on the gradient and set the colour to black or dark blue based on your sky and make sure the gradient is set to go from colour to transparent. There are a million and one ways, just experiment. Tristan

Well, you can do that and/or...go to selective color and add some blacks to the cyans and blues. Maybe you would want to use the selection tool first to select the colors and feather levels of the colors you want to adjust.