How to Replace Complex Skies in Photos Using Photoshop
Replacing a complex sky isn’t always easy. Sometimes there are many obstacles obscuring the sky, like trees, that can cause issues in the selection process. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make a complicated selection and replace the sky with a new custom sky color.
How to Select a Complex Sky in Photoshop
To make a selection of a complicated sky, we’ll start by duplicating the Background layer and then move intoChannels, where we’ll duplicate the Blue channel and fine-tune the selection of the sky.
We’re left with two layers, the original Background layer and a layer with a selection of the sky.
If you turn off the Background layer, you’ll notice that all of the sky is selected but some parts of the tree trunks, where some of the bright highlights were, are missing.
We’ll fix this problem and replace the sky in the next step. you could alsouse Channels to make difficult selections in Photoshop.
How to Replace a Complicated Sky in Photoshop
Now that we have the sky selected, we’ll fill in the missing pixels on the tree trunks and replace the sky with our own custom color. To do this, we’ll use aSolid Coloradjustment to create our sky and theBrushtool to fill in the missing pixels.
You can toggleLayer 0on and off to check if you’re recovering all the missing tree pixels. Below is the result after brushing the pixels back in.
And since we’re working non-destructively with a Solid Color adjustment layer, we can always go back and change the sky color again.
If you’d rather try another program, you could alsoreplace the sky using Luminar Neo.
Replacing Complex Skies Is Easy in Photoshop
Replacing complex skies with many elements doesn’t have to be a dragged-out process. Try this method in Photoshop if you want a faster and easier way to replace complicated skies, and you will end up with a result that has no imperfections.
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