Brush Along the Horizon with a Low Opacity Brush This doesn't need to be totally perfect, because we will blend the erased edges in the next steps:Ĥ.

The goal is to make the overlay wider at the top and smaller at the bottom in order to give the illusion of distance:Īdd a Layer Mask to your sky overlay, and use a brush with a soft edge to erase where you do not want the sky to appear.

You can also use Free Transform to stretch the overlay. Think of how a road recedes into the horizon and completely vanishes the further away it goes, that's exactly what should happen with a sky overlay, just not as noticeable! The center of the horizon, or the vanishing point, will be farther away than the sides of the image, making what's in the center of the image appear smaller. In most cases, a horizon will not be the same depth all the way across. Using the horizon as your guide, use Perspective Transform to fit the sky overlay to the horizon. Once you have added your sky overlay, reduce the opacity of the sky layer so you can see the horizon in your original image. We have listed all the steps below for you to add your skies the old fashioned way but if you want to save some serious time, come see what all the hype is about.Ģ. You can instantly replace an overcast or blown out sky, blur the sky, fade the horizon, make it warmer or cooler and much more all with a quick click of your mouse. NOTE: Both of our sky overlay collections, Vivid Skies Overlays and Painted Skies Sunset Overlays, come with revolutionary applicator actions that do all of this hard work for you! The one I am using is from the 'Vivid Skies' Cloud & Sky Overlays collection. To get started, drag and drop your sky overlay. If you need extra help with layer masks and adding skies in general, please watch our Cloud Overlays Tutorial, then come back! In this tutorial I will show you how to blend your overlays with the original image, and will assume you already have a working knowledge of layer masks, and your own method for applying sky overlays to your images. There are so many different techniques to help you achieve more realistic skies when using sky and cloud overlays. How to Sync Lightroom Presets from CC to Mobile How to Install Presets in the Free Lightroom Mobile App

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