Make sure your replacement sky matches your scene.

While Luminar 4’s AI sky replacement is quite amazing, it’s still just AI, and that means it’s making some smart guesses – guesses that work well most of the time. If your sky is looking too bright or too dark, use this slider to change the exposure.ĪI Sky Replacement Tips & Troubleshooting

What’s cool about this is that it relights your whole scene as you adjust the sky so that your foreground will match the background. Haze is useful to match the sky to the original photo, especially if there is moisture in the sky or environmental pollutants. Use this slider to add a soft haze to the sky. This option is useful when the photo has shadows in the scene that you are trying to match. This option will flip the new sky texture to change the direction of the image. This will help you keep the original depth of field. If your image was taken with a shallow depth of field, it can be useful to defocus the sky a little. If you like the clouds in your original sky, this slider controls how much of the original clouds show through. This is particularly useful if your foreground has trees, architecture, or other complex foreground elements that reach into the sky. This slider fixes small details where there might be holes that were not filled. An adjustment that controls how much the new sky will blend with the original sky. This slider tries to match the lighting of the foreground with the lighting of the sky you introduced.

(This is particularly helpful if you want to adjust the position of the sun or other elements in your new sky.) The AI in Luminar 4 generally does a great job of aligning the new sky’s horizon with the horizon of the scene, but if you’d like to override that you can do so with this slider. The default value is set at 20, but pushing it up higher will often give you a more photo-realistic image. This smooths the transition between the horizon line and the sky. Otherwise, you run the risk of having your skies look like everyone else’s. Once you get familiar replacing skies, however, you’re probably going to want to load your own via the “Load Custom Sky Image” option. As mentioned before, Luminar 4 comes with a selection of sample skies to get you started. Luminar 4 provides both Standard and Advanced Controls for this. Once you’ve loaded your new sky image into the scene, you’re probably going to need to make some adjustments to make it look like it belongs there.

Use the Luminar advanced sky enhancer options to fine tune your results.

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