Replacing skies in Photoshop is getting easier

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Adobe regularly releases updates for programmes such as Lightroom and Photoshop, including completely new features or changes to existing ones. For someone who makes video courses, this has advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that you can sometimes create new courses about those changes. Think of the completely new course I made about the new masks in Lightroom and Camera Raw.

The disadvantage is that your existing courses can become partly outdated as a result. They will not become completely outdated very often.

The basics of Photoshop or Lightroom do not change overnight, of course, so there will always still be something to learn from such a video. But part of it can of course become genuinely outdated because of an update.

Replacing a sky

The basic principle of this video is still relevant, so there is no reason to remove the video from the course altogether. You can still learn something from it, namely how you can sometimes use a layer's so-called blend mode very effectively in composites, so you do not need complicated masks.

But I have to admit that replacing a sky is now done quite differently in practice, because not long ago Adobe added the special 'Sky Replacement' menu in a Photoshop update.

You can find it under the main menu 'Edit', if you have not discovered it yet. With this menu, you can replace a dull sky above a photo with a different sky with a single click.

You get a number of standard sky photos that you can use for this, and you can also add your own photos.

There are a few sliders for 'fine-tuning' if needed, and sometimes they are needed, but in the end it is so quick and easy that I too now often prefer this method to the one in my own video.

There you go. Slowly but surely, Photoshop is getting easier and easier. Soon I will not retire because I have officially reached retirement age, as I have already done, but simply because there will be nothing left to explain about Photoshop!

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