Review of Photoshop CS from a digital photography perspective.
The wavy pattern in the sky is typical for automated noise removal methods, and is the result of blurring the LAB color channels, thereby smoothening color noise while leaving the lightness/luminance channel (and hence sharpness) intact.
smoothening?
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