Thanks Mark! I have not done a full video on mask clean up, but I can look into that. The refine tools in ON1 are good but it really depends on what you are trying to mask. Let me play around with it a little bit and then see what I can produce. Thank you for the suggestion
Thank you Marc! Yea this was a new plug-in that I didn’t know was coming, but for anyone that is just looking to make a quick sky swap, I could see how this would be helpful. Or someone that uses LrC/PS and want to use sky swap for a more involved edit.
Yea if you own it, you should give it a try. I am working on sharing when I choose to use a certain program in my workflow because I own so many of them. But I you already paid for ON1 I think it is wise to use it.
Thanks Chris, I have tried the sky replacement on some images but again you have demonstrated some things I haven`t tried, such as foreground lighting and selecting a color and the model A or B option. I need to go out and take some skies for my archives. I`m just downloading On1 2023.1.1 at the moment. I wonder what will be added to the 2023.5 when it comes out later in the year? Anyway thank you again. Take care.
Hey Andrea good to hear from you! Yea the Sky Swap AI is a good tool and I plan to use it more, but I personally have not used it too much. Now that it is a plugin, I will launch it from Apple Photos or LrC from time to time and work on my images that way. I captured some skies last year, but I have never tried to place them in an image. I have too many irons in the fire and I don't know which one to pull out first.
@@FreeWillPhotos I know what you mean with having so much to do. One of my first sky swaps was done manually quite a few years ago with Art Effect software on my Amiga computer, a picture I took of Jesus on the cross at Walsingham and put in a red sunset sky behind all manually cut out. On1 would do it much faster. I will have to find the original files and try it on On1.
Thanks Danny! I would agree, ON1 is a great program to have and I am in the process of teaching my daughter how to edit photos in it. She is picking up the editing process quite fast and getting into some really advanced edits since the ask tools make it easy to do.
I think they are about the same when it comes to the AI and sky swap capability. I personally lean towards using ON1 Sky Swamp is because I am familiar with the workflow and I have tons of masking options that I don't get with Luminar. I will say that if you use Luminar for most of your editing, then there is no need to pick up this program. If you are looking for an alternate to Luminar, then I would recommend picking up ON1 Photo Raw 2023 as a standalone. You get a lot of features for the price.
Yea the AI mask needs work. Based on the photo you are editing the AI masking works great and others not so great. It think we would experience that with any photo editor though
Hiya My name is Phil Chambers I live in the UK, can you tell me when I do a sky swap say with some Volcanos which are smoking into the air how can I bring the smoke of the eruption forward, as when I put say a sunset sky it blocks out the smoke from the original photo ? Thanks Phil
Phil thanks for reaching out and sharing this question. Off the top of my head I have a few ideas, but I need to test them out. If you are willing to share a sample image with me to test out some ideas, please send it to me at freewillphotos@gmail.com. I will test out a few ideas and then send you a note on how to do it.
Thanks for this one. If you have not done one a tutorial on mask cleaning up it would be very helpfull. Different subject types fine large etc
Thanks Mark! I have not done a full video on mask clean up, but I can look into that. The refine tools in ON1 are good but it really depends on what you are trying to mask. Let me play around with it a little bit and then see what I can produce. Thank you for the suggestion
Great video, Chris; I have the full ON1 but learning more about the edits was nice.
Thank you Marc! Yea this was a new plug-in that I didn’t know was coming, but for anyone that is just looking to make a quick sky swap, I could see how this would be helpful. Or someone that uses LrC/PS and want to use sky swap for a more involved edit.
I also have ON1 Photo Raw 2023.1, maybe I'll give it another try.
Yea if you own it, you should give it a try. I am working on sharing when I choose to use a certain program in my workflow because I own so many of them. But I you already paid for ON1 I think it is wise to use it.
Thanks Chris, I have tried the sky replacement on some images but again you have demonstrated some things I haven`t tried, such as foreground lighting and selecting a color and the model A or B option. I need to go out and take some skies for my archives. I`m just downloading On1 2023.1.1 at the moment. I wonder what will be added to the 2023.5 when it comes out later in the year? Anyway thank you again. Take care.
Hey Andrea good to hear from you! Yea the Sky Swap AI is a good tool and I plan to use it more, but I personally have not used it too much. Now that it is a plugin, I will launch it from Apple Photos or LrC from time to time and work on my images that way. I captured some skies last year, but I have never tried to place them in an image. I have too many irons in the fire and I don't know which one to pull out first.
@@FreeWillPhotos I know what you mean with having so much to do. One of my first sky swaps was done manually quite a few years ago with Art Effect software on my Amiga computer, a picture I took of Jesus on the cross at Walsingham and put in a red sunset sky behind all manually cut out. On1 would do it much faster. I will have to find the original files and try it on On1.
The sky swap is pretty good overall. I think On1 is the application to have. Another great job Chris.
Thanks Danny! I would agree, ON1 is a great program to have and I am in the process of teaching my daughter how to edit photos in it. She is picking up the editing process quite fast and getting into some really advanced edits since the ask tools make it easy to do.
How is it compared with Luminar?
I think they are about the same when it comes to the AI and sky swap capability. I personally lean towards using ON1 Sky Swamp is because I am familiar with the workflow and I have tons of masking options that I don't get with Luminar. I will say that if you use Luminar for most of your editing, then there is no need to pick up this program. If you are looking for an alternate to Luminar, then I would recommend picking up ON1 Photo Raw 2023 as a standalone. You get a lot of features for the price.
@@FreeWillPhotos For a couple of months I had been torn apart between ON1 Photo Raw and Luminar Neo, gradually Luminar won.
They really need to sought out masking ,that doesn’t bleed , and snap to the edges, hope they will fix it so less clean up to do.
Yea the AI mask needs work. Based on the photo you are editing the AI masking works great and others not so great. It think we would experience that with any photo editor though
Hiya
My name is Phil Chambers
I live in the UK, can you tell me when I do a sky swap say with some Volcanos which are smoking into the air how can I bring the smoke of the eruption forward, as when I put say a sunset sky it blocks out the smoke from the original photo ?
Thanks
Phil
Phil thanks for reaching out and sharing this question. Off the top of my head I have a few ideas, but I need to test them out. If you are willing to share a sample image with me to test out some ideas, please send it to me at freewillphotos@gmail.com. I will test out a few ideas and then send you a note on how to do it.
@FreeWillPhotos
Thanks will do will send it tomorrow afternoon
Phil
Is the Method A/Method B functionality not in ON1 Photo RAW?
Yes everything that I show in the standalone/plugin version is in ON1 2023.1. Once you update to the newest version you will have access to it.