If you want to make the sky paler near the horizon, use the Edit Mask button and add a gradient mask. I'll show you how to import a folder of skies & clouds into Luminar Neo and AI to use for sky replacement. This picture works well without a mask adjustment, but these can be useful for subtler blends. We haven’t used the Flip Sky option below, but it can be used to flip skies horizontally for better positioning. Sky Defocus slider is handy for close-ups or portraits with blurred backgrounds. We’ve used some of the Advanced Settings options to give the sky a darker, warmer tone and a little atmospheric haze to blend it into the photo. You may not need the Advanced Settings section at all, but it’s here if you need it, and it can be handy. The original photo had a cooler tone than the sky we used, so we used the Relight Scene slider: this gradually shifts the tones and colours of your original photo to match those of the sky you’ve added. It’s many tools are in disconnect with interface problems, lack on expandability and they try to sell extras and instead of fixing slow or buggy features.

If the join at the horizon looks unnatural, you can soften it with the Horizon Blending slider, just one of a number of tools for making sky replacements look more natural. Skylum is treating Luminar more like a mobile app than a serious pro photography tool. You choose the sky you want to use from this dropdown menu, but you can also insert a sky image you’ve shot yourself. Luminar 4 can add any sky you like, but try to choose one that harmonises with the scene.

Adding skies to luminar ai