Smart Photography 201707

Last month we saw how we could select the sky that is

often seen through the trees and darken it. This month we

will see how to replace a dull, boring sky.

Image Editing

• PART 8

Replacing Dull Skies

Rohinton Mehta

W

e often come across

scenes that we love except

for boring dull skies.

Sometimes the sky is just plain

bald (like in the rainy season) and

sometimes cloudless blue. Though

a cloudless blue sky is better than

a boring toneless white sky, all the

same, it too can be boring. Hence we

should always create an image bank

of good skies. As soon as you see a

good sky, photograph it and place it

in your sky bank. This bank should

have vertical as well as horizontally

shot sky images taken at different

times of the day. Remember too

that the donor sky and the recipient

image, both must have lighting from

the same direction or else eagle-eyed

viewers will know that something is

amiss.

1) Open both images in Photoshop-

the bad sky image and the good sky

image. Ensure that the Layers panel

is open (Press the F7 key on the

keyboard)

Bad sky

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