STEP ONE: I prefer to add images to my document
directly from Bridge or from my Libraries panel. It’s a
little more work to balance color, but I think it’s worth
it to keep organized. Here’s the trick: start with a stock
sky in Sky Replacement, then replace it with your own.
Easy, right?
Launch Sky Replacement on your photo, and choose
a sky that’s roughly similar in color and contrast to
the one you want to end up with. Be certain to fiddle
with the Sky Adjustment sliders so Photoshop places
the additional Color Balance and Brightness/Contrast
adjustment layers above your sky. Click OK to close
Sky Replacement.STEP TWO: Now, simply drag your intended sky into the
image and scale and position it. Drag the new image
to the Sky Replacement Group and place it above the
Sky layer. I dragged the image “Lightning During Storm”
from my Libraries panel to the Layers panel (you can
find this image on Adobe Stock by clicking here). If the
new sky ends up clipped to the original Sky layer, press
Option-Command-G (PC: Alt-Ctrl-G) to unclip it, and
then reclip the two adjustment layers above to this newsky layer. Next, drag the Sky layer mask to your new
layer, then turn off visibility of the Sky layer (or delete it).
Note: I used the steps for creating the Ground Replace-
ment Group in the monk image above to add the sunlight
clouds below the surface in this image, and placed that
result in a group called “Underwater Replacement Group.”
You may need to paint with black on the mask of the
Foreground Lighting layer of this group to remove the
lighting from the subject. HOW TOPHOTOSHOP USER
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2 1Lightning: ©Adobe Stock/joerg dirmeitis/EyeEm