- Bonjour mesdames et messieurs,
in this episode, I wanna show you a quick
and easy way to change sky at will on your photo.
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Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs, my name is Serge Ramelli,
I'm a French photographer from the amazing,
the beautiful city of Paris, France,
and I live in Los Angeles, California.
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All right, let me show you in Photoshop
how you can change sky at will.
All right, I wanna show you one of the most easy
way there is to change sky, and that is to use
the Multiply blend mode.
Now, for this to work, you need a photo with
a very white sky, and you need to make it a little
too overexposed like this photo, this is a photo
that I shot for my good friend Nathanaelle Couture,
an amazing designer, that was the model,
that we were in Paris, we were by the Eiffel Tower,
but the sky was actually pouring rain,
and she was just on this bridge, so the water
was not getting to her, but it's a good photo,
but I wanted to see if I could add more drama.
So what I do here is, I have this sky that's open,
which is very blue, and this one that's kind
of more yellowish, let's try with the more yellowish one,
and so I'm gonna use the Move tool and drag
and drop it over the photo, so here is my sky,
I want the sun to be the other side,
so I'm gonna press, I'm gonna go to Edit,
Free Transform, or I can press CMD + T.
I'm gonna right click, and I'm gonna go
Flip Horizontal to have the sun here.
I wanna position it here.
Now, here's the few steps you need to do,
step number one, position your sky right
at the horizon, so here is the horizon.
Then, I'm gonna take my sky and I'm gonna duplicate
it by dragging and dropping it here,
and then, and then I'm gonna press CMD + T again,
so you know CMD + T, but this time I'm gonna
flip vertical, okay, I'm gonna hold down the Shift
key and drag my copy, and make a perfect mirror,
so now I got a perfect mirror of the sky,
top and bottom, all right?
I'm gonna select both of the sky, I'm gonna
right click, and I'm gonna merge the layer,
so now they're into one layer.
This layer, I'm gonna put it into a Multiply mode,
and that's the secret, and it's gonna do most
of the heavy lifting for us, so Multiply mode,
look at this, it just totally blends,
I mean, it goes here a little bit over the Eiffel Tower,
we have to fix that, you can see some of the clouds
a little bit in the structure here.
The reflection is good, it's a little strong here,
but overall it's already a good start,
check it out, before, after.
I love the Multiply mode.
As I said, it's gonna work if your photo has a white sky
or is very bright, but believe me,
having white sky is one of the most easy things
to do in photography, especially in winter in Paris.
Okay, now, I'm gonna take the Lasso tool,
and I'm gonna make a very rough selection
of the model, and of the...
Pillar here.
And of the entire bottom of the photo.
So now I got a selection, and you see here
I have a feather of 20 pixel on the Lasso tool,
so it's a very, very quick selection, nothing fancy.
What I'm trying to do is, now I'm gonna,
make sure I'm on the sky layer here,
I'm gonna go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur,
and I'm gonna blur a lot, like 100 and over,
like 150, check it out, before,
you see how you see all the clouds,
which is not very realistic, and after.
Because we blur it, we cannot see the clouds,
but we only see the color of the clouds,
we don't see the clouds themselves,
which is really good.
So I'm gonna press OK and CMD + D to undo.
So that's pretty good.
It's kinda weird there, but we can always
do a little mask, take a little brush,
B for brush, make sure your brush is very low,
like 10, 15%, and black is my foreground color,
remember, black conceals, white reveals.
Make sure the brush has a hardness of zero,
so very soft brush, and I can just brush away
the sky from this place here
wherever I want to, and maybe over her.
Take a brush, make sure there is no clouds,
not too much on the face, but the blending
is almost perfect, because we have
this blending mode of Multiply.
Now, the only thing I don't like is the Eiffel Tower,
that's kind of not really, it's kind of too
much in the fog because of the sky,
so I'm gonna duplicate this layer,
I'm gonna put this one on top,
and this one I'm gonna put onto Multiply,
okay, it's gonna do something kind of,
it's gonna put the Eiffel Tower back over everything,
and then I'm gonna press the Option key
and the mask to make this a black mask,
remember, black conceals, white reveals,
so now this mask is completely invisible.
I'm gonna take back my brush, this time I'm gonna
put the opacity at least at 50%,
I'm gonna put white, because now I want to reveal
this Eiffel Tower, and I'm just gonna paint
a little bit over the Eiffel Tower,
and the Multiply mode is gonna make it,
it's gonna reveal itself, so that's one sky replacement,
let's try another one, so I'm gonna put this one
into a group, and I'm gonna call it Sunset.
Okay, and let me just redo it really quick,
but this time with a night feeling.
So I'm gonna, same thing, I take the Move tool,
I take the sky over, I put it here,
so zoom out a little bit, CMD + T,
I'm gonna make it smaller, make it go on the horizon,
like this, I like the idea of the moon that's over her,
it's actually a sky I shot in LA a couple of days ago.
I'm gonna duplicate the layer, press CMD + T,
right click, Flip Vertical, Shift to make it stick,
okay, I'm gonna select, it's the same thing
I'm doing before, I'm gonna merge the layer,
and I'm gonna put it into Multiply mode.
Boom, check out the drama.
Now, same thing here, we got too much of this,
I'm gonna show you another technique,
so you can go here and you can take the Quick Select tool,
make sure you are on the photo itself,
and I'm gonna make a selection of the pillar,
I'm gonna make a selection of the entire bottom
of the photo and a selection of her really quick,
and then I'm gonna go back to Filter,
and this time I can just use the same value
that I had before, you see, it's in memory.
Gaussian Blur, and boom.
Sorry, CMD + Z, I made a mistake,
I should have been on the sky cloud layer,
so I'm gonna redo it, and I'll show you that mistake
so you don't do the same thing, and boom, voila.
And so it's pretty good there, we still see
a little bit too much, so make sure you do a mask.
Same idea, a mask.
With black as the foreground, a low value when
you do that, use a low value, and I can mask out here
to make sure it's not, there is no clouds on the pillar,
and if you think it's too much here, you can even
make bright points, you can take it out on her face
so it's not on her face, even make her dress,
and voila, and same idea, I can get the Eiffel Tower too,
let me see if I can use the same layer that I had before
this one, just this one, I'm gonna take this one out
for the Eiffel Tower, is it, yeah, it's doing a great job.
So, basically, so that's, you see how fast it is,
and it's so fun to do, so that's one version,
like, very blue moon, and that's another version,
very sunny, and voila, so this is a really quick
way to do a sky replacement.
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