How To Add Clouds To Sky In Photoshop

Create the mood you want with a quick heaven replacement

In the past, replacing the heaven required multiple steps and careful fine tuning in order to accomplish a seamless await. Now you can salvage time and become the look you lot want by letting Adobe Sensei do the masking and blending for you.

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Add drama to your images with Sky Replacement

Introduced in October 2020 (v22.0) and updated in August 2021 (v22.5)

Reduce the number of steps in your photo editing workflow by using the new Heaven Replacement feature.

Follow these 3 elementary steps to become started:

Access Sky Replacement

Choose Edit > Heaven Replacement.

The Sky Replacement dialog will appear
Select a new heaven from the included presets or add one of your own

Conform the settings to create the perfect image

The heaven surface area on the original image is automatically selected and masked, allowing the new sky to be displayed based on your selected options. For a seamless look, adjust the sliders to modify the sky and blend the foreground with the groundwork colors.

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Fine-melody Heaven Replacement settings

Updated in April 2022 (v23.3)

Sky Replacement panel in Photoshop

A. Heaven Move toolB. Sky BrushC. Mitt ToolD. Zoom ToolE. Manage sky presetsF. Preset Preview Zoom1000. Delete SkiesH. Import skies from imagesI. Create a new sky groupJ. Recently used skiesK. Sky Preset Menu

In the Sky Replacement dialog, you can set the post-obit options:

Shift Edge : Determines where the border between the heaven and the original image begins.
Fade Edge : Sets the amount of fading or feathering from the heaven image to the original photo along the edges
Brightness : Adjusts the brightness of the sky
Temperature : Adjusts the temperature of the heaven warmer or libation
Scale : Resizes the sky paradigm
Flip : Flips the heaven image horizontally
Lighting way : Determines the blending mode used for lighting adjustments
Foreground Lighting : Use to set up the contrast for foreground; a setting of zippo will not make any adjustments
Edge Lighting: Slider to control the lighting adjustments applied to the object edges in your sky images; a setting of naught will not brand any adjustments
Color Aligning : Opacity slider that determines how strongly the foreground is harmonized with the sky colors - a setting of zero will not make any adjustments
Output: This allows you to select whether the changes to the image are placed on New Layers (named Heaven Replacement Group) or a Indistinguishable Layer (single flattened layer)

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Border enhancement

With the April 2022 release of Photoshop 23.3, we accept improved the quality along the edges of objects in Sky Replacement. The contrast betwixt the foreground and background around the thin line objects is ameliorate preserved, while the halo artifacts are also reduced when replacing a bright heaven with a darker sky or vice versa. To achieve this quality improvement, a new layer grouping is introduced in the layer stack of the sky replacement result, which includes two adjustment layers and a mask that is less smooth than the compositing mask.

Edge enhancement in sky replacement — Use the Edge Lighting slider for better blending along edges of objects in your heaven composite

To command the lighting adjustments applied to the object edges in your sky images, but apply the newEdge Lighting slider in the Sky Replacementdialog. Larger values provide higher contrast while reducing more than halos along the edges.

You can see a new layer grouping chosen theEdge Lighting Group is added to the layer stack of the sky replacement result. All the residuum of the layers remains the same.

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Select and manage sky presets

In the Sky Preset flyout carte, you lot tin can ready the following options:

Import Skies:
- Import Skies from images : Apply for creating 1 or more new sky presets from your own sky images. This function allows yous to select multiple images and import them as new presets in i batch.
- Import Skies from Heaven Presets : Use for importing existing sky presets from ane or more .sky files.

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Create New Sky Group : Create a new grouping of presets for diverse sky utilise cases that you ofttimes piece of work with
Rename Heaven : Change the name of a heaven from the listing
Delete Sky : Delete one or more than skies from the list
Bear witness Recents : Show recently accessed skies on the list
Append Default Skies : Employ this option to append Sky defaults to the list of Sky presets
Export Selected Skies : Export chosen sky presets to a .sky file and save it on your machine.
Get More Skies : Takes you to the Adobe Detect website where you can view and download more sky images or heaven presets, for free.

Get More Skies for sky replacement

With the August 2021 (v22.v) release, a new menu item in the Heaven Preset fly-out menu will have you to the Adobe Discover website where you can view and download more sky images for free.

Improved Sky Replacement panel — Apply the Get More Skies option to browse through a number of free sky files and choice the perfect sky for your images

To access new sky files, do the post-obit:

Navigate to Edit > Sky Replacement.

Click the Sky disclosure pointer to reveal the Manage Sky Presets panel.

Click the gear icon in Manage Sky Presets panel to expose the wing-out Heaven Preset bill of fare.

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The Sky Replacement dialog stays open, but the user'south default web browser is launched.
The web browser automatically opens to the Get More Skies folio on the Adobe Notice website.

If yous are currently logged out on the website, you would be automatically logged in when beingness directed to the website from Photoshop.

Select a Sky Pack for download. Each Sky Pack is represented with an animation of example images.

The downloaded .sky file can exist imported every bit a new sky preset in Sky Replacement past doing any of the post-obit:

manually through the sky preset carte du jour (both Mac/Win)
drag and drop .sky files to the Photoshop canvas while Heaven Replacement is non open (both Mac/Win)
drag and driblet onto the bare championship bar area (Mac only)

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