Realistic Sky Replacement Complete Workflow

In this tutorial, Antonio is going to share an advanced and complete workflow to replace the sky in all your landscape photos in the most realistic possible.

To do this, we will not only use the sky replacement tool we have in Photoshop but I will also show you all the tricks I have learned to make the sky replacement flawless.

Since the sky replacement tool appeared a couple of years ago, I have seen many, many photos where the use of the tool is rather obvious and exaggerated, and I have tried to create a way where we can replace the sky in a very subtle way, resulting in realistic photos.

After 2 years of working and improving the workflow I can summarize it in the next 5 steps:

1. RAW DEVELOPING
   
2. SKY REPLACEMENT
   
3. OVERALL LIGHT ADJUSTMENTS
4. LIGHTING EFFECT
5. FINE ART
   

What software will you need?

Basically, Photoshop is the only software you must own, but alternatively, I´ll be using a RAW developer to my like such as Capture One (you can also use Lightroom, Camera RAW, or whatever tool you are used to), and a plugin that is totally a game changer within Photoshop, as the Tony Kuyper plugin. It really boosts Antonio's workflow, letting him create in one touch any kind of selection, masks, luminosity masks, and virtually anything you can imagine. If you don’t have it yet…go and try it, you can even find a free version.

5 chapters around 20 minutes each describing the complete workflow about how to replace skies in Photoshop.

Additionally, you can download my complete pack of skies in high resolution, so you can use them in your own edits.