How to Replace a Sky and Reflection Using Photoshop

Programs like Photoshop have gained some pretty impressive automated sky replacement functions in the last few years, making a task that used to be rather tedious and involved far more efficient and easy. Nonetheless, one place where things can get tricky is when there is a body of water reflecting the sky in the frame. This awesome video tutorial will show you how to tackle that situation so you can create a convincing and complete sky replacement in Photoshop. 

Coming to you from Anthony Morganti, this great video tutorial will show you how to replace both a sky and its reflection using Photoshop. Sky replacement used to be a really tedious task that you had to do mostly manually, meaning it was to be left for only the most important photographs, but thankfully, automated methods can now convincingly tackle a lot of situations, making it viable for far more images. Still, reflections are trickier to handle, but as you will see, with a little bit of ingenuity, you can make them pretty convincing, particularly on still bodies of water. It's a good skill to add to your bag of tricks. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Morganti. 

Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based photographer and meteorologist. He teaches music and enjoys time with horses and his rescue dogs.

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How to replace sky, reflections and the entire subject in Photoshop...
I was looking at that bee on a curled tiny string that popped in photo of the day and then though, why even bother. Went back to watch Tour de France where real is much more enjoyable.

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As someone who knows very little about all this PP stuff, it's very helpful to get this information. I mostly get all ny shots in camera. Thank you.