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June 2, 2022
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merging sky

  • June 2, 2022
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hi folks and I feel my question is a very beginner one so please dont throw rotten fruits at me/

 

I have two pictures of Athens at night. One of the skyline + sky and one solely of the sky.

 

I've done what I could to unify the sky but I hit my knowledge limit rn. 

 

I've attached the pic here and the tiff is there ... I can send to a drive a .psd wiht the little layering I've done.

 

What would you suggest to keep on progressing?

 

thanks folks

Dan

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
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Community Expert
June 2, 2022

I would crop out the upper area where the colors do not match and you have the different background. If that is actually the sky you are referring to, you'll need to blend the foreground (skyline) with the new background (sky).

Here is a tutorial on sky replacement that can help:

https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/sky-replacement-and-adding-clouds-to-a-photo-in-photoshop-tutorial/

You could also try to use the new Sky Replacement feature - you would need to load your replacement sky in the panel first.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/replace-sky.html

 

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June 3, 2022

Hi Kevin, thanks a lot for the reply! although I am not exactly looking to replace the sky, but rather to merge the two pictures elegantly.

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June 3, 2022

To clarify --- I have an interesting city glow at the bottom left which I'd like to extent to the upper part of the picture --- I can do a gradient for that.


The upper part of the pictures countains stars, which I want to preserve (I know I can selelect these and eventually extend the glow of the lower part using gradients).

 

I've done colour match to align the upper picture with the closest part of the bottom picture but I am still a bit lost for next steps...