![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, we should embrace what we are "given". Often we are disappointed because what we wanted to "take" wasn't there. Personally, I think you have a good original to work with. If you don't want your Notre Dame shot posted, please let me know and I'll remove them. People look wonderful in soft overcast light. And like others have mentioned, high contrast sunny days are problematic for dynamic range with highlights and shadows. I shoot more at night where the sky is not a factor but wet pavement looks great. In terms of shooting, if I don't like the rain and sky, I shoot the puddles and streets. With a lot of patience and trial and error, you could use Photoshop to improve crop, curves or levels, dodge & burn, selective color, and then sharpening. I didn't go for subtly, just to show the dramatic extremes of how far you can go, especially if your originals were shot RAW. I really want to learn how to improve photo like this (if there is a way).I've taken the liberty of using your shared photo to show:ī) Processed with Nik Collection's Viveza2Ĭ) Processed with Nik Collection's Silver EFX Pro2 What would you normally do with cloudy and rainy photo (unplanned) that look so uninspiring?Įdit: okay, so I'll take one photo taken at Notre Dame, my favourite place in Paris, with a lot of cloud. You just need to learn how to select the sky, mask it, then bring in the replacement sky on a new layer underneath.Now, coming back from home, the question is, what can we do to make the most of of those photos? It's just something that's easy to do using the standard tools. 'Sky replacement' isn't a separate feature in AP. Sky replaced with Affinity Photo - no grey fringing on the tree line The masking was more work, but much more precise: Can you try it and see if you can do better? It did a nice job on the water, but the masking on the trees is terrible. Sky replaced with Neo - note the heavy grey fringing round the trees I found it impossible to refine the selection around the trees. Here's my test of a sky replacement with Neo: My conclusion then was Luminar was fine if it selected the sky properly on its first attempt, but if it didn't, then Affinity was better. Last time I tried Luminar on a sky replacement it actually did a bad job on trees, and couldn't be refined successfully. Neo just does it without any pain PLUS it does the sky reflections over water. I don't replace skies often but when I do I really don't want to mess with the refine tool. Just saying Neo is pretty much 1 click and done. I know Photo is a very powerful app and I am sure you can do a sky replacement. When doing composites from 2 different images I rarely find that they look natural and need some further adjsutments. but it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes in Affinity.Īffinity photo also gives you all the usual tools to adjust curves, white balance etc on the layer. I haven't used Neo, so can't compare but Affinity is very good at picking out the sky with lots of trees. It will tale a long time, compared to the instant results from Neo. Try doing one with lots of trees in Affinity. Luminar Neo, with all its faults, does a pretty good job at sky replacement with difficult images. The two samples in the videos are easy ones with no trees. ![]() There are lots of videos illustrating this, for example Once you learn to use the tools, many tasks become quick and easy, and you soon get to the point where you can do tasks like sky replacement better than in products that have explicit features to do it. You just need to learn how to select the sky, mask it, then bring in the replacement sky on a new layer underneath. You can do it on Windows by using the Window > Float menu actions. 'Sky replacement' isn't a separate feature in AP. You can open/view 2 windows at once on Mac using Separated Mode in Affinity Photo. Program's help did not find something with words "sky replacement" I'm a newbie who recently bought an Affinity 2 and now struggling with interface. Please, tell/show me how to find a sky replacement in Affinity. ![]()
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