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SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION SKY REPLACEMENT By Andrew Haysom
In the latest release of Photoshop (October 2020, Version 2021), Adobe have added an “automatic” sky replacement feature, playing catchup a little with products like Luminar that have had this for a little while. To access the feature, choose Sky Replacement from the Edit menu, you will be presented with the Sky Replacement dialog as shown in Figure 1. You must have a pixel layer active at the time of choosing the command. I’ll talk about the last option in this dialog first. For Output always choose New Layers as this will output a layer group that makes up the sky replacement which you can easily adjust later. The other option Duplicate Layer outputs a flattened version to a duplicate layer which is much harder to edit. Photoshop will churn for a few seconds while it generates the required masks and such, and then the current sky will be replaced into your image (as long as the Preview check box is ticked). [Figure 1 – Sky Replacement dialog]
[Figure 2 – Sky Picker]
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Click the drop-down arrow next to the current sky thumbnail to activate the Sky Picker (see Figure 2).
