Luminar AI Sky Replacement Tutorial

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You'll learn how to add a texture overlay, do a sky replacement to add birds or clouds, add sun rays and more, in this 3rd day of the 5-day Luminar AI tutorial photo editing challenge.

You'll learn about sky replacement pitfalls to avoid, how to add background texture screens, how to add mist or fog for a creative touch and finally how to add sun rays to your photo.

This Luminar AI tutorial will show you how to use the creative tools inside of Luminar AI. It's a fantastic photo editing program from the people at Skylum It's easy to use and it's fun.

📌 Luminar AI Sky Replacement Tutorial Table of Contents:

0:00 Welcome and housekeeping
0:40 Working with Image 1 in the Creative Panel
1:06 Sky Replacement with the Sky AI tools
7:20 How to add Sky Replacement packs to Luminar AI
8:17 How to add sun rays and adjust to match scene
12:56 Using the Mystical tool
13:32 Image 2, Adding texture overlay and effects
13:58 Using Augmented Sky AI to add a birds as a sky element
16:25 How to use Atmosphere AI to add fog, layered fog, mist or haze
17:32 Adding a Dramatic effect with the Dramatic panel in Luminar AI
18:36 How to add mood with the Mood panel and LUT's
20:25 How to add a texture overlay in Luminar AI
29:00 Image 3 - Using toning to add color tint to highlights and shadows separately with different color tones (split toning)

📣 My Sky Replacement Pack 1

📷 Luminar AI Editing techniques in this tutorial:

✔️ Horizon blending in the Sky Replacement AI tool
✔️ How to adjust the horizon position
✔️ How to match the coloring of scene in your photo to the lighting in the sky replacement photo used using the Relight Scene tool
✔️ How to flip sky replacement to match direction of light from original photo
✔️ How to add a texture overlay
✔️ How to add a new sky element using Augmented Sky AI

For the first photo, I'll demonstrate a sky replacement and color enhancements. You'll learn the critical point of matching the direction of light in your original photo with the direction of light in the sky replacement photo you've chosen.

Then I'll show you some common sky replacement pitfalls to look out for. Sky replacements that simply don't work and what to do about it.

Then I demonstrate adding a texture overlay (background texture), some color toning and a sky augmented element. You'll learn about to add mist, fog, layered fog or haze for a creative touch, or "atmosphere" to your photo.

For the 4th image in this Luminar AI sky replacement tutorial, I demonstrate adding sun rays into the image and match it to the photo being used.

📷 Luminar AI Editing Tools Explained in this tutorial

☑️ Sky Replacement AI
☑️ Sky Enhancement AI
☑️ Enhance AI
☑️ Atmosphere AI
☑️ Augmented Sky AI

Sign up for the 5-day photo editing challenge here:

You will be provided with a link to a Luminar AI free download, and all the raw files I use in the tutorials.

You can work along, get to know the software, and become more confident using it and see for yourself why with the artificial intelligence, I call this the easy photo editing software.

📷 Photo Editing Terms You Need to Know

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[HeatherMassey-yo]

Super teacher, I appreciate you very much.
Thank you.
As an elder hip one must say.
Technology is a bit difficult.
Your instructions could follow.
Writing to pay bills.
Thank you so much.
Blessings to you
Heather-Angel

[DaveJhnsn]

Well done. So many options available in Luminar AI. One can spend a few minutes or a few hours editing a photo. Thanks again for the Day 3 video. A lot to remember.

[nigelchase]

Awesome again, my editing has improved already. Thank you.

[volkerwehres]

Very helpful, love it and enjoy it. Greeting from Germany

[bluejay]

Every one of your tutorials reinforces the fact that purchasing AI was one of the smartest things I have ever done. In playing with the program I had the sky replacement bleed into the image. It happened in part of the image that was over exposed. I take it that there isn’t a way to fix that when the horizon isn’t well defined?
Love the Hong Kong image but I probably would have stopped after the mist. Looked amazing. How often do you apply texture? I love it but i fear it makes a landscape more like fine art than reality.
Can’t wait to work on this. At some future date I would love to see how you attack your images. I’m sure when you capture a scene you are looking for a specific look. When you see the image open in AI I want you to say, this is Hong Kong harbor I wanted to convey “this “. Here is our out of camera and I’m going to use AI to achieve “this” so here is my work flow.
That texture face covering comment...somehow I think that little Darlene in the left hand corner can see my face.

[josefarfan]

Gracias gracias, con subtítulos en español te pasaste, sos una MASAAA, abrazos chau

[colinmelhuish]

Excellent, every second so informative . Learned so much. Thanks for posting.

[catherinemullarkey]

Thank you Darlene, loving every minute of these tutorials & doing editing like I never did before. I have my photos from day 1& 2 I'm working on 3 but don't know how to send them.
Thank you Catherine Mullakkey

[drmyers]

Hello, great video series! I’ve found that when I add different skies, I’ll get a lot of grain or noise in them. I’ve for the most part stopped adding my own or other packs I’ve bought as they all seem to be of different quality. Is there a way to to clean the noise out without spending a lot of time? I mainly do real estate photography and it gets tedious in some scenes. I’m definitely interested in your pack.
Thanks.

[PatrickGodwill]

can sky replacement be done on videos too or its only for images

[ralphjanes]

I’m new to luminar ai and have been experimenting with cloud replacement. All of my replacements have a white rectangular blob just to the right of center. Any thoughts?

[bluejay]

I received a comment back from anatasia at skylum regarding the feathering brush in dodge and burn. According to her the feathering is not available with the dodge and burn tool. I told them you demonstrated it. She asked me to send the video. Perhaps you can reach out. I didn’t want to over step my bounds by sending your content . I’m a bit confused at this point

[bluejay]

It's your favorite pain in the butt. I really got myself wrapped around the axle here. I did all of lesson 3. Awesome as usual. I was given a free 5 image sky replacement from Skylum as well as your 2 in lesson 3. I watched a youtube video where the dude placed his own sky images in the folder: Program Files>Skylum>Luminar AI>profiles>Sky textures. I dropped the 5 image folder and your 2 into the Sky textures folder. When I go into the Sky AI, I'm not seeing any of these 7 new sky replacements. I know there in the Sky textures folder, but I just cannot see them in the normal listing of skies that came with AI. When I scroll down on the Sky AI tab and to find the "load Custom sky image" it loads a folder. Is that the tab where I should create a folder for these 7 new sky images? I'm just confused at this point. The Youtube demonstration for custom sky replacement had the new files show up immediately in the pull down tab. What would you do without me? Thank

[larryhendricks]

I have been watching the tutorial on YouTube, but I didn't see this live chat with comments.

[RobCooper]

Update: we've been offline for a few hours due to techincal issues and Darlene is catching up on some sleep. She'll reply when she's a little more rested.

[leocasi]

i have many skies but it dosnt even allow me to press ''sky selection''
.____.