STEP THREE: I wasn’t able to get the color completely
balanced with the default Sky Replacement adjustment
layers, so I added an additional Curves adjustment layer
(Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Curves) to the top of
the stack, along with a Color Lookup Table (Layer>
New Adjustment Layer>Color Lookup) using the Late-
Sunset preset in the 3DLUT File drop-down menu in
the Properties panel. These two layers let me finish off
the composite and blend everything together.
THE SKY’S NOT THE LIMIT
Sky Replacement has a lot of power, and it’s not limited
to skies. Once you have the masks and adjustment layers
in place, you can swap out the sky image for anything
you like. I’m exploring the idea of building up a colored
texture library to import into the Sky Replacement
gallery so I have a range of default colors and values
with which to work. This will let Adobe Sensei do the
heavy lifting of analyzing my images and getting the
color and masking done. Then I can put anything I want
in to replace the replaced sky!
It’s worth pointing out that Photoshop 2021 also
shipped with a Select>Sky feature which works really
well; however, I think going through Sky Replacement
is better, because you get to adjust the mask in ways
that you can’t do directly with the Select Sky result, and
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