Help - How to achieve this?

[milosh]

Hello everyone,

I have a question about post-processing, I don't know how to "bring-up" a burning red colour in the clouds, and a bit of their shapes. I took several photos of this scene, all in raw, and one was exposed for the clouds. They were really red from below, seemed like they were burning.
I then accidentally deleted that photo, so I'm stuck with this exposure only. I was trying to get back that look of the clouds but didn't have much success.

I uploaded one jpeg photo so you can see what does the scene look like, and maybe suggest some technique. I also uploaded a cropped psd file if you want to try something out. There is also a mask for the clouds included.

I would really appreciate if someone would give me a clue as how to do this. The cloud area is not so underexposed, it still contains information, I just don't know how to make them more visible and colourful. I would like them to appear as a thick stacked layer of clouds which are red from below (that's what they looked like).

Here's the psd file:
RapidShare: DSC_1406_DPS


Thanks

[edbayani]

try the hue and saturation, then with the sponge tool, set to saturate at 20% brush some portions of the sky. increase contrast a bit. if you want you can still use the burn tool set to the softest, shadows and 10% and brush some portions of the dark clouds.

[milosh]

Thank you edbayani!

I tried it like you said and I'm pretty satisfied with the result. I never used the sponge tool before, silly me. Here's what I've come with so far, it's probably not over yet.