REALISTIC SKY REPLACEMENT COMPLETE WORKFLOW

COMPLETE COURSE

INTRO

Hello everyone, I’m Antonio Prado, sports and landscape photographer for more than 10 years, and creator of ProcessingRAW, an online platform in Spanish specialized in photo processing, mainly in tutorials for Capture One and Photoshop.

First of all, thank you very much for downloading this tutorial, and with these videos I want to explain you what you will find and how you will be able to use it and incorporate it into your workflow.

So thank you very much, I hope you enjoy tutorial and let’s get started

What is this tutorial about?

In this tutorial, I’m going to share an advanced and complete workflow to replace the sky in all your landscape photos in the most realistic possible.

To do this, we will not only use the sky replacement tool we have in Photoshop but I will also show you all the tricks I have learned to make the sky replacement flawless.

Well, what do i exactly mean with complete workflow? Since the sky replacement tool appeared a couple of years ago, I have seen many, many photos where the use of the tool is rather obvious and exaggerated, and I have tried to create a way where we can replace the sky in a very subtle way, resulting in realistic photos.

After 2 years working and improving the workflow I can summarize it in the next 5 steps:

1. RAW DEVELOPING
   1. subtle adjustments just to have the widest tonal range possible. It is not the final edit, we are just preparing the file to be adjusted within Photoshop.
2. SKY REPLACEMENT
   1. USING THE PS TOOL
   2. REFINE THE REPLACEMENT
3. OVERALL LIGHT ADJUSTMENTS
   1. TONAL/COLOUR ADJUSTMENTS
   2. DODGE AND BURN
   3. LIGHT BLEED
4. FINE ART
   1. DARK MOOD
   2. GLOW
5. FINAL TOUCHES
   1. EDIT COLORS
   2. VIGNETING
   3. FINAL FOCUS

What software will you need?

Basically, Photoshop is the only software you must own, but alternatively I´ll be using a RAW developer to my like such as Capture One (u can also use Lightroom, Camera RAW or whatever tool you are used to), and a plugin that is totally a game changer within Photoshop as the Tony Kuyper plugin. Something that really boosts my workflow letting me create in one touch any kind of selections, masks, luminosity masks and virtually anything u can imagine. If you don’t have it yet…lets, go an d try it, you can even find a free version which u can use…for free

Besides we will also be using Color Efex Pro 4 from DxO

 What will you find?

• Video folder containing all the videos that I have recorded for this tutorial
  • RAW DEVELOPING
    • RAW analysis
    • RAW adjustment: I want to get all the information possible. Kind of an HHDR (horrible High Dynamic Range)
  • SKY REPLACEMENT
    • INSTALL SKIES
    • CHOOSE THE SKY
      • Where does the light comes from?
      • Find a sky that matches that direction
    • FINE TUNE THE SKY REPLACEMENT DEFAULT GROUP
      • MODIFY DEFAULT MASK
      • COLOUR MATCHING (SLEECTIVE
  • LIGHT ADJUSTMENTS
    • TONAL AND COLOUR ADJUSTMENTS
    • DODGE/BURN
    • LIGHT BLEED
  • FINE ART TOUCHES
    • DARK MOOD
    • ORTON EFFECT
• Skies: a folder containing a set of skies created by my own that u can use.