In other words, I am interested in this for creating a mask my own skies.

This can be time-consuming, so I am always interested in ways to quicken the process. I’ve used Luminar 4’s AI Sky Replacement to “drop in” my own sky before. I was curious as to how it would compare with Photoshop Sky Replacement. Luminar 4 can only use skies that are JPEG and TIFF files. When used as a plugin with Photoshop, Luminar 4 will create another layer. Photoshop offers the choice of creating another layer or a duplicate layer, including all the masks and the layer of the sky that come with it.Īnother difference is that Photoshop version 22 has so far been absurdly slow for almost every function on my 2017 iMac with 40 GB of RAM. Luminar 4, and for that matter, Photoshop 2019, run very quickly. Not everyone experiences this, but it’s worth mentioning. I began with a photo that I took of an unprocessed 3-minute low-ISO photo of a radio telescope taken at night. Luminar 4 struggled with identifying the night sky. How would Adobe fare?Īdobe recognized the night sky as being a sky, but struggled to determine what was sky and what was not.

And as previously mentioned, I had the choice of creating a duplicate layer, which would allow me to tweak the layer further in a nondestructive manner. In this example, I chose one of Adobe’s skies, as numerous skies come with the program.Ībove, you can see that Luminar’s Sky Replacement feature is ghosted. It could not recognize the night sky at all. I chose a “blue hour” photo of a lake in the Eastern Sierras, taken not long after the sun had set.

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