Photoshopping skies

For an architecture project I’ve been working on, I’ve had to learn all sorts of tricks. Most recently, I had to figure out how to swap out drab skies, for the puffy cloud variety. Luckily I came across this little gem at Greyscale Gorilla (which you should be checking constantly if you aren’t already, this man is talented).

Simple Sky Replacement in Photoshop from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

Within an hour (there was a steep learning curve) My photo went from:

to:

So there was a bit more touching up to, but hey, look at that sky! Feel free to steal the sky from the photo I used:

I once had a photo intern tell me his boss took photos of the sky anytime it looked nice for later use, which struck me as overkill.  I have been on the look out for pretty clouds now too.

For an architecture project I've been working on, I've had to learn all sorts of tricks. Most recently, I had to figure out how to swap out drab skies, for the puffy cloud variety. Luckily I came across this little gem at Greyscale Gorilla (which you should be checking constantly if you aren't already, ...