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Choose your sky
If you click the Sky Selection
dropdown menu, you’ll see a
long list of replacement skies that come with
Luminar 4. Just pick a sky and see what it looks like. At
first, the novelty of having a new sky added perfectly
to your photo can distract you from the details, but it is
important to find a sky that harmonises with your photo.
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Finishing touches
This is where the sliders in the AI Sky Replacement
panel can help. One of the most useful is the
Relight Scene slider: this progressively applies
the replacement sky’s tones and colours to the rest
of the image to produce a much more natural
blend. We didn’t quite like the way the
‘galaxy’ was hidden behind the temple,
so we used the Flip checkbox to flip the
sky over. Finally, we increased the Sky
Exposure to make the image brighter.
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The Luminar layout
First, select Luminar’s Edit panel. This shows
a set of four icons for the four main filter
panels, over on the far right of the screen:
Essentials, Creative, Portrait and Professional. If you’ve
used Luminar 3 or earlier versions, these are equivalent
to the old Luminar preset workspaces. The AI Sky
Replacement filter lives in the Creative section.
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Turn day into night!
Don’t be afraid to try
something dramatic. The
‘Galaxy’ and ‘Starry Night’ skies in Luminar 4
are amazing, and they can work really well with regular
daytime photos. Here we’re going to use the ‘Galaxy 2’ sky
to turn a dull overcast travel shot into a glittering night
time scene. It looks pretty good already...
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AI Sky Replacement panel
The AI Sky Replacement panel has three
sections. Use Sky Selection to choose a new
sky and make basic adjustments. Advanced
Settings shows additional options for refining your
results. You won’t need Advanced Settings on every
image – the results are usually really good right from
the start – but they can help you get a better blend.
How to replace a sky in five simple steps
Turn a regular daytime photo into a surreal nightscape
Go to
skylum.com
to find
out more