Hey, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create a seamless
photo from two separate photos using generative fill and sky replacement. For your convenience,
I provided these two photos as examples and then you can apply the same methods to your own photos.
Let's expand this photo to the right and then we'll place the other one into it. To do this,
we'll go to Image...Canvas Size. We'll click this arrow which means
we're going to place the new photo to the right of it and if you're in "pixels",
let's make the width twice the size of the height. So, in this case, since the height is 1440 pixels,
we'll make the width 2880 pixels. Then, click OK or press enter or return.
Open the other photo. Make sure the Move tool is open. If it isn't, press "v" on your keyboard and
drag it onto the tab of the first photo. Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down and
release. If you want to adjust its size, open the Transform tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T.
Go to any corner and drag it out or in. In this particular case, I'll cancel it because I like the
size to begin with. Move it to a position where you'd like it to be relative to the other photo.
Open your Rectangular Marquee tool and make sure the "Add to" icon is active. This will
add selections as we make them. Drag the tool over the first photo leaving a little
room around its inside perimeter. Now, we'll drag our tool over the other photo and again
make sure that some of the photo is outside the perimeter of the selection. Invert the selection
by clicking the invert selection icon on the contextual taskbar. Click "generative fill"
and click "generate" or press Enter or Return.
As always, we'll get three options to choose from. All right! So this is one...here's two or we can
click these arrows right here. Here's three. I think I like the second one. Look how beautifully
generative fill filled in the sky and merged the landscape together. Now, for the sky, I still find
the "sky replacement" filter better than using generative fill for a few reasons. Number one:
we know exactly what kind of sky we're going to get because it shows us beforehand. Number two:
it won't change the topography of the landscape and that's like a major thing.
I did an in-depth tutorial on Sky Replacement so if you'd like to watch it, I provided that
link in the video's description. First, we'll convert our visible image into a smart object
so we can modify it non-destructively. To do this, Shift-click the background to make all
the layers active and click the icon at the upper right. Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Edit and Sky replacement. It replaces our existing sky with one of the many skies inside
the filter. If you want to add your own sky, click the arrow next to the preview window, click
the gear icon, click "Get more skies", "import images" and if you have a sky you want to export,
navigate to it and click open. Now, we can do a number of things right now. We can shift the edge;
we can fade the edge. In this particular case, I'm going to fade it out all the
way. I like the richness of the sunset down here. We can make it bluer or yellower. I'm
just going to keep it at its default of zero. The scale, of course, changes the size of it
and I'm going to keep it at 100%. We can also flip it, but I like it the way it is. So now,
we click OK and there you have it! This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!