Comments on: How to Replace a Sky in Photoshop

By: Luiz Mello

Luiz Mello — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:29:37 +0000

A couple of questions:
Do the shots of skies need to be from the same angle as the ones you want to replace them with? For example, if I take a shot up a facade of a building or a horizon, could I use the same sky image?

Also, do you perhaps have a place where you share some sky images you take? =)

Thanks for the tutorial, will try it out today.

Cheers

Luiz

By: Dudley

Dudley — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:40:26 +0000

Let down by the complete lack of info at the end of stage 6: “Paint on the mask in black to reveal the original image underneath.” Eh? Please eluciadte…

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:43:42 +0000

This is one of the coolest tutorials i’ve seen for photoshop! Thanks!

By: Tomek D.

Tomek D. — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:29:54 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! You helped me a lot with my current work. It’s a great thing to show your skills to other people, so that they can develop their own. Thanks again!

By: Helen Bradley

Helen Bradley — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:42:03 +0000

@Helen I am assuming you have the layer mask on the sky layer as shown in the bottom right of the Step 6 image.

Select a brush, make black your foreground color, click the Layer mask thumbnail in the layers palette so the thumbnail has a border around it indicating it is selected and now paint on the image where you want to reveal the layer below – you don’t paint on the layer mask thumbnail in the layers palette – you paint on the image and because you have targeted the layer mask in the Layers palette you are “technically” painting on the mask.

Hope this helps.

Helen

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:21:06 +0000

I’m struggling with step 6, the Layer Mask. I can’t seem to paint on the mask in black to reveal the original image underneath.

Can anyone help?

By: Rajen Makharia

Rajen Makharia — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:23:41 +0000

Fantastic. Just what I was looking for. Thanks

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:18:44 +0000

I am blown away on just how simple, yet so effective, this technique is. I have tried other ways but usually end up with obvious blending issues. Thanks for this wonderful tutorial.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:05:03 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It helped a novice like me a lot.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:36:22 +0000

BLEND IF rocks! Thank you for this tutorial. I cannot believe that I have ignored this feature for years – such a time saver and more effective than other methods I have been using!