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- In this episode, I'm going to show you how you can use
the Library module in Photoshop
to swap skies in your photos.
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My name is Serge Ramelli.
I'm a French photographer from the amazing city
of Paris, France.
And I make two tutorials per week, in 2019.
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This episode I'm going to give you
five of my most amazing skies ever.
Let me show you how you can install them
and use them in Photoshop.
Alright, guys, I'm going to give you
some five amazing skies.
The first one I'm going to give you is called, Africa Sky.
42 million pixels, shot in Africa.
The second one I'm going to give you
is called, Blue Golden Hour.
The third one is Blue Morning.
The fourth one is Pink Golden Hour.
And the next one is Warm Golden Hour.
All these skies are 42 million pixels,
super high-quality skies.
Now, I want to show you how you can
organize these in Library in Photoshop.
But first, how to get the sky.
Alright, all you have to do to get your asset
is click the link that's just below the video,
and then you put in your email address.
Then, you put in first name, last name,
and create a password, and boom!
You're in, you have the preset of the brushes,
you just can click on view, and then you can
download the source files.
Now, if you're already a member,
you click on the same link,
you put your email address, and click
signup for free, and it's going to take you
and just add it to your Library.
That's all you have to do.
Make sure, one, you're a Creative Cloud member,
and two, you can go to Photoshop,
About Photoshop CC, and make sure you at least have
Photoshop 20.0.1 for this to work.
Okay, once you have that,
I'm going to take all these guys,
I'm going to right-click,
and I'm going to open in Photoshop CC 2019.
Here we are, and all the skies
are open in Photoshop CC 2019.
What I want to propose to you, is to organize
your skies, using the Library module.
So, this is the Library module,
and this is how I've organized my skies.
So, you see, I have basically a lot of assets here.
This is called A Photoshop Sky Premium Collection,
which you can get, by the way, with an amazing offer.
The link is also below the video.
You have, you know, my blue hour skies,
bad weather skies, golden hour,
milky way, daylight, okay?
You have to set that up just once.
Once you've done that, you can just drag and drop
the sky in your Photos.
It's really fast; it's so cool.
I have a whole bunch of assets here, you know.
I have all my bokeh and links, same idea,
I've got all my lens flares, eye trays.
I have all my light links, you get the idea.
I can just drag and drop things.
So, I'm going to create a new library.
Create new library, just click on this,
and we're going to call it Sky Serge, okay?
Create.
And now, all you have to do is,
because you opened up, you take the Move tool,
you click on the sky, and you drag and drop it here.
And it's gonna load it into
the cloud of Adobe, and it's going to be there
for Photoshop, for After Effects,
for Premiere, for the whole Creative Cloud Suite.
Even for apps on your iPhone.
Okay, so now, this one, I can just close file.
Close.
I can take the next one, drag and drop,
and I'm going to do that really fast for all the skies.
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And voila!
All the skies are here.
But, for now, they are called Ungrouped.
So let's say you want
to collect your own skies.
What I advise you to do is to create groups.
I think it's better.
So, the first group I'm going call it,
for example, I'm going to call it, Sunset.
Okay.
Then, I'm going to create another group.
You can click here, on this icon, to create a group.
This one I'm gonna create it, Blue Hour.
And then I'm going to create another group,
and I'm going to call it Golden Hour.
Golden Hour.
Alright, and then I can just take my sunset
and put it into the sunset.
I can take this one, and this is more,
actually, this was more golden hour.
This is more a blue hour.
And this was more blue hour.
And this one, you can organize, and you can just
add your own, you can purchase mine,
whatever you want to do.
These ones, I'm giving you for free,
so you can play around.
And let me show you how to use them.
So, here I am, I've got this beautiful photo
of the Eiffel Tower.
And, I just wish I had a better sky.
I can just drag and drop this sky here,
and now it's going to appear as a small object.
So, let me put this aside for a second,
and what I can do is,
well, because it's a small object,
I'm going to make it a lot bigger.
And skies can scale really well,
especially if they were shot at 100 ISO,
which is the case of these ones.
And just basically, going to put it here.
Maybe I want this light to be here.
Okay, at first it's going to look weird.
But it has this technique that I really like.
I'm gonna just duplicate the layer,
press Command + T, right click, flip vertical.
Then you hold on to the Shift key,
and you make a perfect mirror of this sky.
Alright?
Press Enter.
Next, I'm going to take these both skies,
I'm going to right click, and I'm going to merge layers.
Okay, you can review this video
if I'm going too fast for you.
And now that it is merged,
I'm going to put this into Multiply.
But at first, it's going to look really weird.
It's kind of interesting, but it's weird,
because you can you see some of the clouds
on the building and everything.
So, what I'm going to do is I'm goin to press L,
for the Lasso tool.
Make sure feather is around five pixel.
It doesn't really matter.
And I'm going to make a very rough selection here,
around the buildings, and here for the rest of the photo.
It's really a rough selection, takes two seconds.
Maybe let's make it a bit bigger.
So we have this sort of selection.
It's fine if it's not really precise.
You can hold on to Shift key and add to it
if you want, to make it more clean.
Okay, now I've got a good selection there.
And then I'm going to go to Filter,
Blur, Gaussian Blur, and I'm going to Gaussian a lot.
So, you see, I'm Gaussing at least 100 pixels.
And let's maybe even do a little more, like 135.
Check it out.
Before, you see how you can see all the clouds?
And after, we only get the color left.
It's such a cool technique.
But we're going to take this a little further, guys,
because we want to make it really realistic.
So, Command + D to undo.
Next, is you put a mask,
take a brush, make sure your brush is very soft,
so harness at zero.
Make sure black is your forward color,
and make sure the opacity is around 20%.
Okay, you can use the Alt and Control key
to make your brush larger.
And I'm just going to take a large brush,
and with black as the forward color,
I'm going to erase some of this sky replacement
on the building, where it's kind of too obvious.
And leave most of it here, in the sky,
maybe here, some of the color here, I can erase.
And if you erase too much, you're like,
oh, no, but I like the, it does like a little
vignette effect, you press X and you just
brush again and you're bringing it back just a little bit.
And this way, I was able to replace the sky really fast.
Let me show you another example.
This is a morning shot that I did.
So, I'm going to take again,
these skies that I'm giving you,
I'm going to take the blue hour sky,
because this was actually a morning sky.
So, blue hour also happens in the morning.
And, so I'm going to put it, you know what?
I'm going to invert it first, flip original,
so that we have the red here.
And I'm going to put it right at the horizon, okay?
Okay, I'm gonna press enter.
Same thing here, I'm gonna duplicate the layer,
Command + T, flip vertical.
I'm going to make this one stick,
make sure it's really well aligned.
Press Enter.
Same idea.
Select both, right click, merge layer.
It's the same work flow.
And then I'm going to put this into Multiply mode.
And on this one, to go even faster,
and get a better selection,
because we have a very clean sky,
I'm going to take the Quick Select tool,
select the sky here really, really quick.
I'm going to invert my selection,
so that only the bottom is selected.
I'm gonna go back on my sky,
and I'm going to go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur.
Same value, 135.
Check it out.
Before, you can see all the clouds,
everything is really weird.
After, we just get the color, okay?
And then, Command + D to undo it,
and we're ready to add a mask.
Take the brush and just, you know,
brush out some of the sky effect
that's, oh, make sure black is your forward color,
otherwise it's not going to work.
And I just want to brush away
some of the sky here, so it's not too obvious.
But you've got to do that with a brush that's 20,
and because you're using a blend, look at this.
The sky is completely blended there.
You don't see any halo, nothing.
It's just really well done.
Like, I can't even tell sometimes,
if I replaced the sky or not, so much, it's so good.
You just have to make sure you use the right sky,
and you can also lower the overall opacity too,
so it's not so much in your face.
Before, after.
Okay, one last example, because you guys are awesome.
So, again this is an amazing photo I shot in Africa.
I'm gonna take my African sky,
and I'm gonna do the same thing again.
It's always the same step.
Step number one, position your sky at the horizon
where it's nice, okay?
Press enter.
Duplicate your sky.
Press Command + T.
Flip vertical.
Hold the Shift key to make sure,
when you're dragging, you're not going sideways.
Make it exactly mirrored.
Press enter.
Right-click, merge layer.
Put it into Multiply mode.
Same thing here, make a rough selection
of the sky using the Quick Select tool,
if you've got a clean sky like this.
So, it's going to select just the white.
Go to Selection, invert your selection.
Go back on your sky, and we can use
the same value that we did before.
You can go to Filter, we've done it several times,
Gaussian blur.
It's going to Gaussian blur 137 value.
And it's gonna take out,
we see this little cloud here, boom!
We only get the color, we only get the color.
Okay, Command + D to undo, add a mask,
take your brush, and just erase some of it.
Make sure your brush is black here,
and 20%, and you can just blend it even more,
erase some of the skies.
And, I would do a lot more things
to this photo, but that's the general idea.
Alright, guys, download the skies,
organize it in Library like I showed you,
if you're a Creative Cloud member, and have fun.
Alright, guys, I hope you liked this,
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and I will see you in another episode.