Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to replace the sky
in Adobe Photoshop. And this is only available in Adobe Photoshop 2021 and newer. All right,
let's get started. Alright, I'm here in Photoshop 2021. So let's go ahead and open a photo.
I downloaded this one from Pexels.com. If you want to download this and just follow along,
that link is in my description. Okay, so let's say we make a brochure or something
like that with this image and the client comes back and says, 'You know, I love this photo,
but I don't like the sky. And I want something with a little more interest.' So now Photoshop
has made this easy for us. Let's go to Edit, and then come down here to Sky Replacement.
And it'll bring up this dialog box. So we've got a little drop down beside this sky
box. And we have a lot of skies that are just built in already. So if we want to see what each
one of these looks like, we can just click on it, and it automatically replaces the sky behind her.
It might take your system a little bit of time to preview these - it does for mine.
And of course, it makes sense to really pay attention to the type of image and the perspective
and all that stuff because you don't want to put some sky that doesn't match the subject at all,
and doesn't look natural. Now, if we don't like any of the skies, we also have an option to upload
our own sky. I've taken a different Pexels photo and just cropped the sky. So I'm going to use that
image. We'll say OK, and now our new sky has been automatically placed in the background.
Now Photoshop is going to do its best guess to decide what sky and what isn't. But what it can't
do is fix reflections of the sky. So let's say she was holding a little mirror here or something like
that. We would not be able to see the same sky here as the one that's in the mirror. Hopefully,
that feature will come soon. Now let's look at some of these options. We've got Shift
Edge. And what this does, it actually takes the sky that was already there and blends it into the
new sky that you've chosen. So if we increase this a lot, you're going to see a lot of that new sky.
And if we bring it down, you're going to start seeing some of the old sky show through.
We've also got Fade Edge here. The Fade Edge kind of acts like a gradient between the two.
You'll notice that the horizon or where it kind of is the bottom part of the sky...
that kind of blends in better if you have the number higher. And then if you come down here,
it's not blending with the old sky hardly at all. This is almost all the sky that we added.
I think it looks most natural to just blend it into the sky with a gradient look. We can adjust
our brightness and temperature here. This just helps to match what the current image is doing.
You know, you can adjust the temperature depending on what time of day this was taken,
or the type of lighting you have. Now scale is going to increase the sky, so if we bring this up,
it just gets bigger. And it doesn't really make sense right now, because that is not the right
perspective of the sky, but if we bring it too far down, you start seeing the edge of the photo.
So we'll get it right about where it was. That looks good. And now you'll notice that the
lighting, the light is coming from this side, and she's got shadow on this part of her arms. So it
makes sense that the lighter side of the sky would be on this side. But if we needed to flip it,
we could do that here. We also have foreground adjustments, so we can change our lighting mode.
And usually I just go with whichever one of these looks the best. Right now Multiply is looking
quite nice. We can also adjust the lighting. With these, I just go off what looks the best. Now
these tools are kind of to edit the sky itself. So with this one, you can move the sky around.
With this, you can go in and refine tiny edges. You can kind of lighten or darken parts of the sky
and you can add or subtract. You can change your brush size. Of course,
you can also change the Blending Mode here. So this will work really well if you had part of the
image that just wasn't looking right, you can go in and fine tune. The hand is just to move around
the canvas just like you would with your Spacebar. And then of course your Zoom tool is here.
All right, now for the output, I usually just Output to New Layers.
You can also do a duplicate layer. We'll go ahead and say Output to New Layers. And when we do this,
we get all of the adjustments that you just saw on that panel right here in your Layers panel.
So unfortunately, we can't get that panel back once we do this, but you still have
all the same adjustments. So if we double click here, we can change our brightness and contrast.
We can change our temperature and our color balance here.
And we can make changes to our mask, turn off and on or lighting and then make changes to the
foreground. So we still have all the same options. It's just a different way of working with them.
Okay, I'm going to zoom out and I wanted to show you one other sky adjustment thing, you might not
know about yet. Let's say you just want to enhance the sky that you've got. You're not replacing the
sky, but you just want to select the sky. So let's select our background layer, and I'm going to hide
our sky replacement. And then I'll come up here to Select and we can just select the sky now,
it might take a second, and it does a really great job of selecting just
the sky. And now we can make adjustments to just the sky using layer adjustments.
And this feature is also only available on CC 2021 and newer. All right, so that is it with the new
Sky Replacement and Sky Selection tool. Alright, if you like the way I teach,
I also have full courses out there on Skillshare. And I have a link in my description for two free
weeks if you want to give those a try. All right, I'll see you in the next video. Thank you!!!