I have tried to perform some sky replacement for a small, almost random selection of landscape photos I took somewhere in the last two years.

Some Results of the Luminar AI Sky Replacement But I wonder, should you use this amazing possibility for your photos? You can tweak the replacement nevertheless, making it almost impossible to see the manipulation - at first glance, that is. On a lot of occasions, this is not necessary in Luminar 4. I know, there were other programs available that could do a similar task, but it often required the user to tweak the result afterwards. Now, anyone can do this, without the tedious work with layers and masks in Photoshop or similar programs. The program even changes the overall look of the image by adding a color cast that reflects the mood of the new sky. It makes it possible to change a sky with just the click of a button. At the end of 2019, Skylum released Luminar 4, with an artificial intelligent sky replacement option. Masking the sky can be very difficult and time-consuming.

Now, you can do it with the click of a button.

Replacing the sky in a photo has been possible since the dark ages of photography, or should I say, darkrooms of photography? Although it was a very difficult job back in those days, it has become increasingly simple to replace the sky in almost any photo.

Skies for luminar 4