One of the most frustrating things about replacing skies has been the area closest to the horizon, as this area usually needs to be lighter, otherwise, the sky can look unnatural. The only caveat is that your skies should contain a horizon. The version of the software that we have been supplied comes with 26 different sky presets, however, there is also the option to use your own skies. However, we can show you the before-and-after results we have been able to obtain using the software.īelow is a short video to whet your appetite. Many shots that have been unusable in the past have now been given life with only one click.Īt this stage, we are unable to show you any images of the software’s interface until the release of the final product. We have been testing the software over the last week and it is nothing short of amazing.
There are many new features with this version, notably the AI Sky Replacement, AI Skin Enhancer, and Portrait Enhancer. Well, it looks like that is all likely to change with the upcoming release of Skylum’s Luminar 4. We’ve usually been able to improve the skies in Photoshop or occasionally replace them altogether, however, this is time-consuming. Quite often we license stock images where the only image of a destination is one with less than an ideal sky. In high dynamic scenes where there are extremely bright sky highlights and dark foregrounds, it is impossible to get a well-balanced image without bracketing shots and combining them in software.įor us, it is even more frustrating, as we are photographers as well as publishers. Days with washed-out skies or even cloudless days can make images boring and bland. If you want to make the sky paler near the horizon, use the Edit Mask button and add a gradient mask.A Travel Photographer’s nemesis is the weather. This picture works well without a mask adjustment, but these can be useful for subtler blends. We haven’t used the Flip Sky option below, but it can be used to flip skies horizontally for better positioning.
Sky Defocus slider is handy for close-ups or portraits with blurred backgrounds. 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. You may not need the Advanced Settings section at all, but it’s here if you need it, and it can be handy. 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. 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. You choose the sky you want to use from this dropdown menu, but you can also insert a sky image you’ve shot yourself. Luminar 4 can add any sky you like, but try to choose one that harmonises with the scene.
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