Adobe Photoshop

Sky Replacement

Flexible & Customizable

A perfectly legitimate way to replace a sky in a photo would be to add a new sky as a layer masked to the undesired sky. One might also add adjustment layers to ensure that the foreground and new sky get along visually.

Photoshop’s new Sky Replacement feature does those things. Access it by choosing Edit > Sky Replacement…. Choose a sky (or add your own, see above for how) and adjust the result in the dialog box. When you commit, you’ll get layers much like we might have created and can later tweak ...