Sky Replacement in Photoshop Without the Ugly Edges

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When you replace the sky in your images, it can be extremely difficult to get the seams where the sky meets the foreground to look natural. More often than not they’ll look like a bad paper cut-out, and fixing this seems way too difficult. I’ll show you how you can use Photoshop’s “Color Decontaminate…” tool to solve this problem.

[@liverpoolpictorial]

at 3:13 how does the layer mask suddenly go from colour to black and white. I can't follow your instructions after that.

[@ronyut1984]

Alt+left click on the new layer

[@Ziggy_4217]

@@ronyut1984 I was having the same issue, this worked. Thank you

[@richardharkins4929]

Hi Klaus, I stumbled across this tutorial yesterday and because this is something I use often I clicked on it to watch. I then re-watched it so I could take notes, and today tried it on one of my images and am happy to report that it worked great. Thank you!!!

[@RossThompson89]

Awesome video, Klaus. I enjoyed how thorough you were with the steps here and really learned a lot about the selection tools and the color decontamination tool. Looking forward to applying this to some images!

[@bernadettecrumb2481]

This is one of the most helpful editing videos I've seen since I started to use photoshop. Thank you for explaining it so clearly!

[@kevinmccarthy5522]

Klaus, thank you so much for that great tutorial. . .I tried it and got great results!!. . .I want to mention that one of the most important tips was your advise, right in the beginning, in using levels to create a clean mask. . .Your insight on the position of the sliders and keeping a buffer between the black and white point slider made all the difference in the world for me in getting a clean initial mask. . . again thanks and I subscribed. .look forward to many more.

[@jokersf]

Great tutorial! Thanks

[@ZachAlanPhotography]

THANK YOU FOR THIS! Your video is by far the most concise and informative about this topic! I was able to nail a tricky mask I've been working on all night. :-)

[@jonl0711]

Hi Klaus, would it have been easier to 2 two layers to fix the trees? one for the left and one for the right and then merge the two together. Since it appeared that trying to fix it on one isn't the answer.

[@btacan]

Hello. I get stuck on minute 3:12 where you are able to see the blue channel. I am following all the steps and for a reason whenever I add the group and create the layer mask with the blue channel I am not able to see it, I see all the RGB not just the blue channel. Any ideas? Thank you!

[@christophergrayson1959]

Betzy Tacan I think you need to alt click on the new layer.

[@aryanalakhramsing]

Christopher Grayson thanks bro!!!

[@PeterKramm]

I am having the same issue. Once I create the layer mask and the image does not turn to B/W. I have also tried to create the new layer by holding alt and then clicking the new layer.

[@andrewmcgibbonphotography4867]

Peter, you don't hold alt while you add the layer, you hold alt when you click on the layer mask you just created. I think that is the problem you are experiencing.

[@fnchia94]

I'm having the same issue. Any idea?

[@karunnaidu5060]

Thank you so much ❤️. So helpful for my job .

[@_kojira]

Thank you so much for the video! It really helped me to get the best results so far, still it would be much greater if you teached how to get rid of all the ugly edges on the entire picture, and not only on that tree.

[@cliff51825]

Thank you Klaus. That technique is going to help me.

[@FajrAisha]

How to open 2 images in one if we don't have light room?

[@mommao1851]

We need video change color sky and water

[@Plemay]

instead of using levels, I suggest you use the burn tool in the dark tones to darken your mask. You will then not affect the bright or middle tones

[@julijan1085]

Thank you so much

[@BjoernHirsch]

Hi Klaus, I am on the latest version of Photoshop CC and have the same problem as below .. once I create the blue channel selection I have a b/w layer mask in the layers panel , but the screen stays color & hence the slider white pointe / black point does not work ??? Any idea what is wrong

[@PhilipWalker]

Hey, the answer was also written in a reply to a comment above, but you press ALT and click the new layer to change it to the black and white slider mode.

[@federicofernandezf]

What if I want to make the original background just darker and saturated

[@futurepilot5426]

❤️👍

[@user-kf8uk3yz3w]

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[@PhilipWalker]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!!! It was concise and to the point, but took enough time to explain why you did things. Also, I followed this and it worked perfectly for my photo!!! Here's what I was able to do with it:
i.redd.it/qj669vu8bom21.jpg
Thank you so much!

[@j.y.7351]

tried for the 4th time and still doesn't work. thanks

[@kingslavd661]

levels aren't doing anything for me

[@wishiwsthr]

Same problem

[@MauroMarcenaro]

speak too much