Fix Exposure Problems with this Easy Sky Replacement Technique

[@paulknight7789]

Dear Robin You make it look so easy. Thank you for sharing this video and talking through all the necessary steps. I have tried this technique before but never got the results I wanted. After watching your excellent video, I am now a little more confident to try again and hope to get better results next time. Thank you kindly. Regards Paul

[@RobinWhalley]

You are so welcome! Just remember that it takes time and practice to develop these skills. Keep practicing and you will soon wonder why you found it difficult.

[@aronlengyel]

Beautiful image and excellent video. Thank you very much for sharing it!

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

[@55tanker]

HI Robin. This video isn't playing on my laptop. I get the adverts but for your part of the video I just get the circle going round. If I hover my mouse along the timeline, I can see what should be showing. This is on Firefox (latest update). However, it plays OK on Chrome. Thought you'd like to know.

[@RobinWhalley]

Sorry, I have no idea why. I also use the latest firefox browser and the video loads fine. It's proably a temporary glitch on KZbin.

[@stuartbraithwaite1297]

Hi Robin, excellent video, thank you.

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome and I'm glad you liked the video.

[@williamschone9358]

👍Robin excellent video. I shoot a fair amount of astrophotography & thus shoot separate foregrounds from the sky backgrounds, this method will certainly help in then blending the two together. Thank you sincerely, Bill

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. And yes, it's the same technique that I've seen used for blending the images in astrophotography.

[@danbuchman7497]

Does doing an HD merge accomplish the same result in your opinion, or using this method give you finer control of the result? Excellent tutorial as always.

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you and no it doesn't. I've merged only the sky in this image where an HDR Merge would merge the images globally. You then end up with a flatter looking image in my opinion.

[@MusicFreesYourSoul]

You could just click the sky and then ctrl + click mask button to add an inverted mask

[@RobinWhalley]

You could but it doesn't work as well as the method I demonstrated. It's much better paint in the adjustments where you want them rather than applying then to the entire image. It's the same reason why I explained in the video not to use the red channel or you will end up replacing the highlights in the fields. I wanted to keep the adjustment to the sky and not make any changes to the ground. You might also not want to replace the sky as uniformly as the mask created by the channel which is another reason to use the brush technique. I hope this clarifies.

[@PierGiorgioZuccaro]

Good Technic

[@RobinWhalley]

Thanks

[@BNJMNBanks]

This does not work for me.

[@johntapley2549]

Useful video but the music was very distracting so gave up watching.

[@AoyagiAichou]

I think sky replacement is one of the worst trends nowadays...

[@RobinWhalley]

I would agree with you. But when it's a shot you took at the same time as the original, with the intenetion of merging it later to overcome a limitation of the equipment, I think that it's acceptable.

[@AoyagiAichou]

@@RobinWhalley Yeah, I kind of agree. I'm mostly talking about people who take a shot and then almost always go to photoshop and do the three-click sky replacement using some Adobe stock sky.