Lightroom Classic Masking Sky Detect

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I love Adobe Lightroom Classic Masking, especially the Sky masking tool, but suddenly I put a photo into the Develop module with an obvious sky as part of the photo and I get the following pop-up: "No sky detected" and below that it says: "Couldn't find a sky to detect."  It does this will numerous photos that have obvious sky within the composition, without exception.  Any suggestions?  I can still edit the file globally, or with the Gradiant Filter tool, but not with Sky Detect.

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[default4ucs2ehjp6zm]

Thanks for the heads up!

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

With that sample file, my LR 12.4 / Mac OS 13.4 finds the sky:

Most problems with LR's AI commands are caused by older, buggy graphics drivers. Try updating your graphics driver by going directly to the manufacturer's web site:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html#solution-4

If that doesn't help, please copy/paste here the entire contents of the LR menu command Help > System Info -- that will let us see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running.

[default4ucs2ehjp6zm]

I finally got it resolved today, and yes, it appears that a reinstallation of the graphics driver solved the issue.  Honestly, I had problems with my CyberPower photography computer and its integrated AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card in that I couldn’t get the driver to reinstall, even when going to the AMD website.  So, today, I took it to my local computer repair shop and my service guy (who’s wife is a photography buff) was able to install the driver update.

I opened up Lightroom while I was in the shop and was immediately able to access the Sky Detect in the Masking module.

Thanks for your support!!

JCF