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I was happy when I finally broke my polarizer. It ruined lots of images or at least made the processing difficult.
The sky should be easy to fix for your pano, but I am surprised that Photoshop pano stitch did such a poor job. Also why didn't you use the content aware fill?
Anyway, here is what I would do with the sky. Select the sky including the white areas. Use the blur average option to create a uniform sky color. Adjust brightness, hue, and saturation as desired. With the sky still selected, use the dodge tool with a large brush and low opacity to lighten the sky at the bottom. You can use a gradient for this but the dodge tool is quick and easy and of course you can undo or use the burn tool to fine tune this.
Next you are missing some big chunks of real estate in the bottom center. The clone tool is the only recourse. It should actually be a pretty simple task. The missing road should be easy. The sage is also easy. I have done enough patchups like this that I would guess the whole process could be done in 5 minutes or less. If you have not done this before, I can recommend keeping the clone tool at or about 100%. Otherwise you will end up with blurry areas that do not look right. And of course you will need to work at a high magnification.
Next consider the aspect ratio for this pano. Sometimes a wide pano works to capture some of the grandeur of the scenery. Unfortunately wide panos are difficult to print and difficult to frame and display. After many, many stitched panos I try to keep mine at an aspect ratio of about 1:3 or 1:4 at the widest. Of course you can always crop. I also often play with resizing and changing the aspect ratio with Photoshop. Try adjusting the aspect ratio by 10 or 20% and decide if that will work.
Finally when shooting this I would guess you had the camera in a horizontal (landscape) position. Next time consider shooting in a vertical (portrait) orientation. Shoot very wide with the horizon near the middle. You will need more frames and you will need to crop the final pano. It is of course much easier to crop than to fill in missing pieces.
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