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Selecting a sky in Photoshop
From the course: Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Selecting a sky in Photoshop
- Earlier we took a look at sky replacement. This time I'd like to explore some of the advanced controls and show you what you can do when you really want to change the mood of a scene. Let's go ahead and open up these images here. Here's my end state. You could see how we transformed everything and started to blend it together. Here's the original state. So what we want to do is replace the sky, but then do some advanced controls to not just replace the sky, which did work nicely, but to go a step further and actually bring that into the water, because that sky shouldn't just be there, it needs to be in some of those reflections so that they also pick up the color, and this option is not built into Photoshop, so I'm going to show you how to cheat. All right, let's build it. We've got our initial image, and I'll choose Edit, Sky Replacement. If sky replacement is something you love, there is a great tool that has…
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Using the Color Range command to select a color7m 31s
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Using the Color Range command to select a tonal range6m 47s
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Using the Color Range command to select skin tones6m 15s
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Creating a selection based on focus area6m 12s
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Selecting a sky in Photoshop11m 33s
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Using the Select Subject command7m 31s
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Making a selection with the Pen tool7m 2s
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