Yo, guys! here's a really quick and easy way to do a complete sky replacement
using Photoshop and the process itself is fairly simple there's actually
multiple ways of doing this but I'm gonna show you the easiest ones let's
get right into them now in this picture I have a really vibrant really colorful
sky already so that makes my job a lot easier because since the sky is blue it
really stands out from all the other colors in the image so I can easily
track the colors and I can easily replace them with anything I like so
that's really important when getting started you want to pick an image where
the sky is visible if it needs to be a different color or at least be easily
traceable so for this example the very easy thing I could just do is go into
the quick selection right over here and from here I can select the quick
selection tool make sure it's in plus and just like that I can make my
selection of the sky just like that now another way of doing this would be going
back into the quick selection tool and using this magic tool now I'm going to
press command + D to deselect everything and let's try out the magic tool so
before messing with anything on the top you can play around with the tolerance
to make sure you select the right amount of the color so as you can see it's
already selected pretty much half of the sky already and now what I can do is
hold shift to select additional colors within the same selection and that
pretty much just gave me a good outline of my sky now let's try the same thing
with really low tolerance and let's see what that does so command D to deselect
everything and now I'm gonna have my tolerance to let's say about seven and
now as you guys could see the tolerance is really low so I only selected really
close colors to the color I was picking so I'm gonna press shift again and let's
select a color from right over here let's do another one from here
another one from here another one from here so you can see the tallest makes a
big difference so if I just increase the tolerance a little bit and then select
the colors it selects a whole wider range of those
colors and the similar colors around it so there we go we always have the entire
sky selected and these are some really easy ways to make the selection and
replace the color now I'm going to show you one more tool you could use which
actually does a really good job and it actually works a lot better if you want
to do some fine adjustments like let's say if you had trees over here or
something like that which i luckily don't have but if you have something
like that that tool would really help you and do the processing work of
tracing and selecting the sky and removing things and that don't need to
be there so deselect everything and let's go on the top menu select and from
here select and mask now from here you can play around with the opacity I have
this on view so I can see whatever is in red is what's gonna stay and I can bring
down the opacity or bring it up just like this so in this case I'm gonna go
into the quick selection tool and you guys could see it is doing a pretty good
job of tracing out the sky and I'm pretty much done now let's say if I had
some trees over here or something and I want to be a little more precise and
remove the sky but keep the trees I could use the fine edge brush tool and
that would really help me find out my selection and I'm just gonna do that a
little bit on the mountains here just to give you guys an idea from here we could
also play with the edge detection a little bit smoothness feather contrast
and you can pretty much find what works better for you so I'm gonna make some
quick fine adjustments and once you're happy with the selection you can press
ok from right here and we have our selection selected and now once we have
a proper selection no matter how you got it we're gonna go down right over here
and create a mask now I'm gonna press option and press the mask button and you
guys can see I created a mask and blacked out everything that was in the
selection so this is what it will be like if I don't press option so when we
press option we tell it to do pretty much the reverse of that so here we go
we have our sky completely removed and now we're able to replace away whatever
we like so now I'm gonna bring in my sky from
right here let me go with something like this and I'm just gonna bring this layer
down and move it around to where I think it fits the best so I think that looks
pretty good let's try another selection of sky and let's see how that looks so
so as you guys could see once you have your mask in place it's actually pretty
easy to replace the sky with whatever you like you could even go into the
adjustments and tweak the colors and the contrast and everything to make the
colors match and make the picture look has perfect as you want and yeah guys
that will be it for today if you like this video let me know in a comment down
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