Thanks for the explanation. I see nothing wrong with your art version to be honest, but I’ll see if I can come up with an alternative one…
Can you post the sidecar? I’m curious to see how you handled the blown sky and its discolouration.
BTW: Nice edit!
you can use the jpg as sidecar in ART (sorry, I should have specified that). For the sky, I cheated by painting it… there’s not much else you can do I think
Thanks!
Yeah, I ran into that trying to somehow make the sky somewhat presentable, hence the interest in your edit 
Here’s a different edit (much quicker), but with similar ideas:
Those extended masking options in ART are nice (especially the Brush Mask), compared to RT that is. RT can do masking, but these seem easier to use.
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This is what I do. By keep girl subject normal light leave sky to white out. Picture like this, high dynamic range have to choose to keep sky or girl to normal light. Keep both might seem unreal to me.
Ok, thanks for wasting time on my image. This elaboration is definitely the one I like the most. It is very similar to what I got using camera raw in Photoshop. Thanks again. (Forcing the color of the sky is certainly useless and unreal, but mine was a quest to see if it could be achieved.)
Ночная бета-версия сборки в эссо, хо мессо я предустановлен в картеллах профилей, которые хо тровато в прецеденте в рете, даются все фото в формате JPEG, да си адаттано и необработанные. sulla foto fachem, la messa a fuoco è andata in secondo piano, così come la cattiva lighting, i rumori sono forti. Портативная программа, которая содержит полную карту после установки. agiunti alcuni nuovi Strumenti. RawTherapee_dev_5.8-2983-g3f58095b6_20210604 — Яндекс.Диск
So not free software at all?
“Free (of cost)” is not the same sa Free Software.
There are plenty of forums and social media places to share your adobe edits, but without some specific intent, this isn’t one of them.
above 4 versions made in RT. the author himself led the speech for the editorial office in Photoshop and he was interested in who would handle it. I showed 4 versions in RT, one in Photoshop. that’s all.
Had some time to, finally, give this one a serious try.
This ended up being a RawTherapee 5.8 + Krita 4.4.8 collaboration.
EDIT: Fixed some visible masking traces.
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you handled well, the sky is blue, the skin colors and the sheets look normal.
This one could have been done better if it were important enough, would have taken a lot more time though.
I did the masking a bit too quick-and-dirty, which becomes visible when you zoom in to at least 200% at this resolution.
@xdodo mentioned that forcing the colour of the sky would be useless/unreal, but this is exactly what I did using a rather simple gradient instead of a manually created one that would have fitted just a bit better, and some Krita magic. Replacing the sky altogether with a different one would also have been possible, I find that going one step too far in this case to be honest.
Like I stated before: If the image is worth it to you and you want to spend the time you can create a really nice end result.
Well, it was originally shot out of focus. It is better to do such manipulations on another photo, which was shot without errors.