From the course: Learning Photoshop Compositing

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Replacing a sky

Replacing a sky

- [Instructor] Photoshop makes it really easy to select your sky and also to take it one step further and replace that sky with a more interesting sky. If all you want to do is select sky, that's right here, but I'm going to go and choose sky replacement. Now, when you do this you get to choose from a number of starter skies and I'll show you in a minute how you can add your own and get access to more skies. But I'm going to use this sky from the blue skies group. I can adjust the settings. I'm going to lead them as they are for now. And I can also determine whether I output to new layers, which will give me further options for tweaking these settings or if I just want to output to a duplicate layer. I'm going to output to new layers. And there are those layers. We have a sky replacement group. And if we take a look at the layer mask it has created, view that by holding down the optional alt key and clicking on it, you can see that it's created a very subtle mask so that we won't see…

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