Digital BW, The Print

Open two photographs in Photoshop, one with the foreground you want (i.e. 
the one with the white sky), the other with the good sky.  Make sure they're 
the same size and dpi and in 8 bit mode Then take the following steps:

1. Mark the entire foreground image as a selection (Select > All).
2. Copy the foreground image (Edit > Copy).
3.Close the foreground image, the sky image should become active, if it 
doesn't click on it to make it active.
4. Edit > Paste. Now you will see only the foreground image. Use the 
Background Eraser tool (Eraser > Background Eraser) to erase the white sky 
and you will see the sky from the sky image showing through. Use a large 
eraser size until you get close to things like mountain tops, trees, 
buildings, etc., then switch to a small tool when you get to those areas.

You have created two layers so when you're through flatten the image (Layers 
 > Flatten Layers).

I'm sure there are other, perhaps better, ways to do it and there probably 
is a plug-in out there somewhere  but this method is easy and works well as 
long as you take some time and care to get the transition from sky to 
objects (horizon line, mountain tops, trees, buildings, etc.) correct so 
that there isn't a thin white line showing between them and the new sky.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chatzebussi" <chatzebussi@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] white sky


Hi

I know my question is completely OT. But: can anybody please tell me
quickly how they replace a completely white sky by a blue sky with a
few clouds in it. I seem to remember that there are actually a few PS
plug-ins around, but I can't remember which ones the are/were.

Thanks for any info

Chatzebussi





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