Scott Robert Lim – Sky Replacement

Introduction to Sky Replacement and Starting in Lightroom

This lesson covers the complete creative process involving the entire image and creative decisions to make in Lightroom before adding the sky.

Preparatory Steps Skin Smoothing Removing Distracting Elements

Get your subject looking perfect and remove all distractions from your photo before tackling replacing the sky.

Preparatory Steps to Sky replacement Hair Smoothing Shape Enhancing

How to make your subject shine with some powerful glamor techniques for hair and body shape enhancing.

Sky Replacement Highlight and Shadow

In this first part sky replacement, I show you my techniques on adding a sky and matching color tones to your scene.

Part 2 of Sky Replacement Highlight and Shadow

I continue my demonstration showing you how to remap highlights and shadows across the entire image, paint undertones and remove unwanted sections of sky.

Sky Replacement Color Toning and Making the Photo Believable

The important finishing process and adding another layer of highlight and shadow tone to tie the sky into the image with several different blending techniques.

How to Set Up Assets Importing Clouds into PS Library

A lesson on how to add your cloud textures into your Adobe library to access clouds across all devices that use Photoshop.

Preparing Beachfront Photo for Sky Replacement Skin smoothing

Another demonstration showing you steps to prepare the image and creative decisions on how to enhance the image before sky replacement, including skin smoothing.

Replacing Sky Completely

How to add the sky with a proper reflection, choose tones to paint over the image to make it believable, and how to perfectly match tones of the sky.

Replacing Sky by Using Alien Skin to Add Lighting Effects and Bokeh Layer

Final touches to add light texture for wow and backlight effects using Alien Skin Exposure Software.

Intro Orientation to Luminar for Sky Replacement

A lesson introducing how to get started with Luminar and what it can do.

Replacing Sky with Luminar

How to quickly and easily add a sky in Luminar and how to use the adjustments to blend in the sky with the image for believable results.

Rebalancing Giving Fine Art Feel in Photoshop and Conclusion

How to further refine your image by rebalancing areas in your photos using my digital version of Ansel Adam’s zone method.