![]() ![]() Drag it up to the window tab for the foreground image. Move tool (V). Click and hold in the clouds image. You can grab them from Adobe Stock or other places online too. I always carry a camera around with me, just shoot with an iPhone or whatever, or if I see some really amazing clouds, I pull out my DSLR and just shoot a ton of them, and then, I just save them in my library under Clouds, and just give them that keyword, so when you need them, you can find them. Now you can get clouds from wherever you want. Move the foreground to a new layer Cmd/Ctrl+J, that copies the selection to a new layer. We want to select the ground element rather than the sky, Hit Command Shift I, (Ctrl Shift I on Windows) or just go to Select>Inverse. Drag it across the sky to select the blue. Another way that you could do it is with Color range. The first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to cut out the sky. And those are the things that are going to make a difference between a very believable, realistic cloud replacement and a very fake one. One of the things to consider is light direction and the other thing we’re going to think about is atmospheric perspective (haze). What I want to do is show you how to add some clouds.Ī couple of things to bear in mind. Now, you might think that’s a great thing, but a plain sky like this can be really boring for photograph. One of the things I find living in Southern California, there’s almost no clouds. We’re going to learn how to drop clouds into this clear sky. Today I’m going to show you how to do a sky replacement. There are 2 rules that will give you very realistic sky replacements. If you don’t have time for that, you can always refer to the free sky collections above.In this Photoshop Tutorial, you will learn how to replace boring skies, with nice cloudy skies. In a matter of weeks you will have a sizable collection of sky overlays. Spend several days watching the skies above your head and taking photos of the most interesting cloud patterns. With objects present you may get a shadowy background and you will need some ND filters to darken the sky. Without background objects it’s also easier to get a balanced exposure. Otherwise it will give you more work when you need to remove these objects from the image. Avoid background objects like hills, houses, trees. When you take sky photos, use these simple rules. Add sky photos for different weather and lighting conditions. You can have your own categories of skies: clean blue skies, clouds, overcast skies, golden hour skies, blue hour skies. Create your own collection of sky images by building a new habit: take photos whenever you see a particularly beautiful sky. But you don’t always need to search for and buy sky stock photos. You have access to tons of good sky photos above. No credit is necessary, but we will appreciate a link back to this free collection. Cookies should be allowed in your browser so that you can see the contents of the shared folder. You can download the images one by one or all together. The images are located in a shared Microsoft One folder. We’ve taken photos of skies during different seasons and on different devices from Android devices to iPhone to a mirror camera. All these visuals are free to use in personal and commercial projects. We leave that to you to decide if you want to download these photos and use them in your work. Occasionally, you will find “intruders” in our photos, like planes, boats, birds. They include clouds, blue skies, golden hour skies. Here is our own collection of free sky overlays. ![]()
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