Okay, so now we're ready to actually do an AI powered sky replacement.
This is one of my favorite new features of Photoshop 2021.
So how are we going to actually do this?
Well, before we use the AI powered sky replacement tool,
we actually need to have this guy be filled in because
let's go ahead and use it and I'll show you why we're not going to use it right now.
If you use Sky replacement,
it's only going to affect this part of our image.
We see this top part has nothing applied to an hour exactly.
Are we going to do this?
Well, let's hit cancel here and I'm going to show you,
let's make a new layer above this.
And let's hit em on our keyboard to get our rectangular marking tool.
And we're going to drag a rectangle over the area we want to fill in.
Okay? Now you're just going to go to edit content aware, Phil.
And we're going to use the AI of Photoshop to actually do it for us.
Now here we see a preview,
but we see it's selecting part of the wing here and pulling in
some of that white cream color and we don't want that.
So all we're going to do is we're going to draw with
a brush over the wings so that it's not sampling that at all.
It's going to take a second to update.
And now that looks a lot better.
Huckel zap.
And if we want to add more to our selection here,
we can just paint in a little bit more of the sky and let's see
what that does a better job at,
did clean it up a little bit.
I have a few different options here.
We can choose the opacity and we can also have it,
have more recolor adaptation, rotation adaptation.
So you can play around with this and see if it does a better job.
Let's do high color adaptation.
That does a better job at blended the colors.
A little bit nicer for us.
And rotation, let's go low on a rotation adaptation.
Note that the not-so-good job, let's go medium.
So feel free to play around with this until you get a really good setting.
So I might not show a turn off this back to none.
So look better before.
There we go. So we see it is cutting off part of the wing here.
So we'll have to make sure that we don't cut that off.
We can paint it back, uh, later on.
So I'm fairly happy with this for now.
Might want to paint in a little bit more here.
So very nice.
And I'm gonna make sure that I paint back part of our sky here.
Let me try and put the color of denotation back to default.
And I'm going to keep that on high.
Okay, so for now let's hit OK.
It's going to output that to a new layer.
So let's say Control Command D to the selected.
And as you see now, it's not a problem with the wings that essentially resolves itself.
But we can toggle on and off, which is very cool.
So the reason that we can actually see the wings because
that's on a layer above and it's mascot properly.
So that's why that's not an issue.
There we go.
We now have a good sky to work with.
We can now get rid of this empty layer that we used.
So let's just hit Delete on that.
And now we want to select these two layers.
And let's hit controller command G to group them together,
and then control or command to blend them into one.
So now this is one image with a full sky,
but we don't want this to be smart object.
So let's right-click on this layer.
And let's click Convert to Smart Object.
And also let's rename that back can landscape so we know what all of our layers are.
Ok.
Now, we can use our sky replacement tool.
So now with our landscape layer selected,
I want to go to edit sky replacement.
We're going to be met with this and dialog box.
How cool is that?
So this looks a little bit overwhelming,
but I'm going to show you exactly what to do.
So now every important,
all of the skies that we're using in today's course.
But if you want to do this, just click plus.
And you're going to navigate to all of the skies that we've downloaded.
And one by one, you're gonna click one and click open.
I'm gonna do it again for this one.
It's going to ask you what to rename it.
I'm just going to rename this what it was except the two after that.
I'm going to click OK.
And it's going to be put right in line with all the others.
So for now, I'm going to actually delete that Skype because I already have it.
But I have already gone.
And important all the five skies that I provided for the download.
So photoshop does come with it's own.
It has some blue skies that could be effective.
We start with a blue sky,
so maybe a blue sky would work.
What I want to have something with a little bit more interests.
They have some spectacular Skies which could work.
Some of these are very cool,
but they're also a little bit too busy,
especially for my liking for this particular image.
Next day of sun sunsets.
And that is basically what Photoshop has.
This Skype AC is from one of my previous courses where I show you
some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CC 2021.
And this was a Skype hack that I provided MOFERT today.
Let's look at the five images that I've provided.
So let's go through these one by one.
So this is the first image I've provided and I actually really like this.
Very good.
So we might end up using that.
I do like the colors on it.
Let's go to the next one. You have a nighttime image.
This is a little bit too pixelated,
too grainy from this image,
but it is so nice background image to have.
Then we have this nice gradient going from a nice science field to an orange sunset.
And then we have a darker sunset and redder, deeper sunset.
And then we have this one fun,
torn between this particular sunset.
This one I think let's start with this one and see what we can do with our image.
So you can just click out of this very simply like that.
And now let's play around with a few of
these sliders because it can be a little bit overwhelming,
but you can do so much of this.
So first of all, here we have our Move tool,
which allows us to move the sky.
So that's on its own layer C,
There's the bottom edge and there's the top edge.
So I do want to have as much of this bottom edge is possible.
And it can also move it left and right quite a bit because this is a large image.
So let's have a somewhat like this.
Let's have a position like so.
But now we also have a brush so Skype or should use extent or reduce the sky area.
So the sky area stops around here.
It's smart enough to know where the horizon line is,
what you can paint away if you would like.
Sometimes in your landscape you might have a building in there.
So you can paint around that and make sure it does a very good,
good job for you.
So now we have a zoom tool and a move to a folder Xun allows you to zoom in.
And the handle here allows you to just move around your canvas.
Open outlets just stay zoomed out.
And hence, now we have shipped edge.
So essentially this is going to shift the edge where the image is being blended.
So if we pull this over way to the right,
you can see the shifting edge is going down.
It's going more into our image.
Now if we shift the edge in the negative direction,
is going to shift more of our original image into the background.
So you see, the more we bring that down and the
more we have this coming into our new image.
So I do want to have this fairly centered,
Actually, I'm going to keep that at around 0.
But then we have fade edge here as well.
So if we pull this all the way back to 0,
it's going to have the edge here that's being faded.
Be very harsh.
And we want this to be a subtle fade.
So I usually keep that full 100.
And I might actually move this down just a little bit.
There we go.
And now we can also adjust the sky itself so we can change the brightness,
temperature, and the scale.
We can also flip it around.
So as brightness implies,
we can increase the brightness of the sky,
which I might do just a little bit like so.
And then we can change the temperature.
So i made image here, it's fairly warm.
So I add just a little bit of a warm to the sky.
Michael, that now scale is what
implies it's the scale of the background, bigger or smaller.
So if we make the scale 200%,
It's going to be twice as big.
Now that's zoomed in, we can make it smaller,
87%, and you can see it's smaller.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and type in 100.
I liked it where it was. And there we go.
We're back to about 100 to 100. There we go.
I'm just move as just a little bit and we can still justice later on.
And my add another atmospheric haze in the background here later on.
But for now, we can keep as it is.
And you can also flip it.
So it's going to flip it horizontally and never go.
Might actually have it be flipped horizontally
because it looks like the light is coming from the left here.
And this will look better.
Something like that.
I do like that better.
So now with the foreground adjustment,
that's gonna deal with the actual landscape here.
So we have multiply, it works screen depending on what
your images and these can have a different effect in this particular image.
They have no real significant change.
I'm going to keep that on multiply.
Now lighting adjustment is going to attempt to match the lighting of the background on
your foregrounds off it's dark and it's going
to dark in your foreground and vice surfaces.
So if it's a lighter in the backends going to lighten the foreground.
So if we pull this up to 100,
we can see it's trying to darken the background there.
I might keep this where that was a sex.
Now for the color adjustment is going to attempt to
apply the color of the sky to your foreground.
So if you have a nice orange sunset,
it's gonna make your foreground have a little bit of
an orange tint and you can adjust how much of that is being affected.
So if I have this full 100,
you should see a little bit more intense of an orange peach color.
And if we put that down to 0 and should take all of that away.
But since our forgone is already very close to the sky,
it's not going to make too much of a difference.
So I'm gonna keep that or round where it was.
Right?
And now we have this area here, output.
So we can output the string new layer or duplicate layer,
and we definitely want to stop tweet it to a new layer.
We won't edit non-destructively.
And we want to be able to go back to our original if we ever want to.
Lets a new layer and let's click OK.
Very nice.
So now we have our sky replacement in a group right there.
So everything that you made is in here.
So we have our SKY brightness,
we can toggle it on and off on a sky temperature and you can go in and edit this.
If I want to change the brightness,
I just double-click that and I can adjust that over here.
And we have our actual sky,
and we have our foreground lighting,
which is pretty much non-existent because we didn't change anything.
It's very similar to the actual sky.
Same with the foreground color.
But we have the here, it's non-destructive.
We can come back to that whenever we want.
Now in the next video,
I'm actually going to go over
some initial color correction because this isn't blending together very nicely,
isn't, it looks a very place.
It doesn't look all that good.
I want to fix that. So in the next video,
I'm going to go over some very basic initial color correction.
So let's keep going.