First shot at replacing the sky

[Brian Ducote]

I have been lurking on the forums here for a wile now and decided it was time I posted something up here for review. I am just starting to get the hang of using Photoshop and decided to try something simple. Here is my first shot are replacing the sky in a picture. I used the magic wand to select most of the sky and then delete it. I then went along the tree line with the eraser tool and tried to clean up the spots in between the leaves and branches. I ended up getting rid of more of the leaves and branches than I wanted, I just could not get it to look right otherwise. I then copied a large chunk of sky from another picture that I took the same day and pasted it into this picture. Comments or suggestions are always welcome.

Here is the original picture.

http://www.pbase.com/image/7143654

Here is the picture with a new sky.

http://www.pbase.com/image/7143655

Brian
http://www.pbase.com/bphotogallery

 

[Bill Richardson]

I have been lurking on the forums here for a wile now and decided
it was time I posted something up here for review. I am just
starting to get the hang of using Photoshop and decided to try
something simple. Here is my first shot are replacing the sky in a
picture. I used the magic wand to select most of the sky and
then delete it. I then went along the tree line with the eraser
tool and tried to clean up the spots in between the leaves and
branches. I ended up getting rid of more of the leaves and
branches than I wanted, I just could not get it to look right
otherwise. I then copied a large chunk of sky from another picture
that I took the same day and pasted it into this picture. Comments
or suggestions are always welcome.

Here is the original picture.

http://www.pbase.com/image/7143654

Here is the picture with a new sky.

http://www.pbase.com/image/7143655

Brian
http://www.pbase.com/bphotogallery

--Nice job Brian. If you check noncontiguous on the magic wand, it may have saved you the erasing???
Bill R

 

[Bill Richardson]

--Nice job Brian. If you check noncontiguous on the magic wand, it
may have saved you the erasing???
Bill R

--Or I should say uncheck Contiguous!
Bill R

 

[Lucy]

Nice work Brian......doesn't it expand the possibilities! I love digital!
--
Lucy
Olympus C3020Z
pbase supporter http://www.pbase.com/lucy

 

[Vera]

Nice work Brian......doesn't it expand the possibilities! I love
digital!
--
Lucy
Olympus C3020Z
pbase supporter http://www.pbase.com/lucy

--Well done
Vera

 

[Joe Peoples]

I have been lurking on the forums here for a wile now and decided
it was time I posted something up here for review. I am just
starting to get the hang of using Photoshop and decided to try
something simple. Here is my first shot are replacing the sky in a
picture. I used the magic wand to select most of the sky and
then delete it. I then went along the tree line with the eraser
tool and tried to clean up the spots in between the leaves and
branches. I ended up getting rid of more of the leaves and
branches than I wanted, I just could not get it to look right
otherwise. I then copied a large chunk of sky from another picture
that I took the same day and pasted it into this picture. Comments
or suggestions are always welcome.

Here is the original picture.

http://www.pbase.com/image/7143654

Here is the picture with a new sky.

http://www.pbase.com/image/7143655

Brian
http://www.pbase.com/bphotogallery >

Joe Peoples writes:

Looks good, Brian. How much time did all this take you? If you learn how to make selections using Alpha Channels, the sky would have been isolated in less than 3 minutes and you wouldn't have had to erase branches or leaves.

 

[RonHrl]

Joe Peoples writes:

Looks good, Brian. How much time did all this take you? If you
learn how to make selections using Alpha Channels, the sky would
have been isolated in less than 3 minutes and you wouldn't have had
to erase branches or leaves.

Could you give us less experienced folk a quick lesson in using alpha channels to make selections?

Thanks,

Ron

 

[relate22]

Hi Brian,

Try this technique I just started using. With this technique I replaced the sky in your original photo with a graduated blue sky in 30 seconds. If you wanted to use the sky you used it would add about another minute to copy and paste the new sky into the selection that colour range produced.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=3773885

Have fun.

 

[Louise Parrish]

Brian

Looks great.

Louise Parrish