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The AI Sky Replacement panel
Your guided tour of the tools you can use to swap out your skies
Five great tips for
enhancing skies with
AI Sky Replacement
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Add Looks to layers
Sometimes you need a little
something to bring your new
sky and your image together
visually, and Looks are a great way to do
it. Add an Adjustment Layer and choose
a Look that complements your picture.1
Collect pictures
of skies
Luminar 4.1 comes with a wide
selection of skies you can drop
straight into your images, but it’s just as
easy to add your own – so start taking
photos of skies you like and save them.1 Choose a sky
Luminar 4 can add any sky
you like, but try to choose one that
harmonises with the scene. You
choose the sky you want to use
from this dropdown menu, but
you can also insert a sky image
you’ve shot yourself.2 Horizon Blending
If the join at the horizon
looks unnatural, you can soften it
with the Horizon Blending slider,
just one of a number of tools for
making sky replacements look
more natural.3 Relight Scene
The original photo had a
cooler tone than the sky we used,
so we used the Relight Scene
slider: this gradually shifts the
tones and colours of your original
photo to match those of the
sky you’ve added.4 Advanced Settings
You may not need the
Advanced Settings section at all,
but it’s here if you need it, and it
can be handy. We’ve used some of
the Advanced Settings options to
give the sky a darker, warmer tone
and a little atmospheric haze to
blend it into the photo.5 Sky Defocus
Sky Defocus slider is handy
for close-ups or portraits with blurred
backgrounds. We haven’t used the Flip
Sky option below, but it can be used to flip
skies horizontally for better positioning.6 Edit Mask
This picture works well without a
mask adjustment, but these can be useful
for subtler blends. If you want to make the
sky paler near the horizon, use the Edit
Mask button and add a gradient mask.Sometimes you can get lucky and find
a replacement sky that blends with
your image perfectly first time out.
Often, though, you need to spend a
little time getting exactly the right sky
and combining it with a few tweaks and
adjustments. Here are a few ideas for
getting your sky replacements to come
out exactly as you imagined them – and
you can do them all very easily in Luminar.1234 5 6 1 2 3 546ADVERTISING FEATURE