From the course: Painter 2019 Essential Training

Replacing the sky - Painter Tutorial

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Replacing the sky

- Before we work with the Express Gradient Filter, we're first going to do a quick bit of image editing. After that, we'll proceed with modifying our photo with the Express Gradient Filter. Let's go. So, what I want to do here is I want to get rid of the clouds in the sky. They're a bit distracting and we're going to have some text over this, and the focus I want it to be a little bit more on Moro Rock, so getting rid of this will help that quite a bit. So, I'm going to begin by making a copy of this. I'll Select All, Copy, Paste, and I'm going to use the Magic Wand tool and I'm just going to go over the sky area. It selects a bunch of it, and for the rest of this, I can just grab the rectangular Selection tool. If I hold down the Option key, that will add to the selection, so let's just grab this right here. And now that I've got that I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to copy and paste so that we've got that exact area to work with. I've also now enabled the Preserve Transparency, so any work we do is going to be restricted to just what was the selected area and it is now a floating layer element. So, to do this, I'm going to go into the Gradients, and it's currently on the Foreground and Additional Color. What I need to do here is select the sky colors and they're going to be in the gradient, so let's grab the Dropper tool, and I'm going to get this color at one end, and then we'll switch to the additional color, and I'll get that color on the back end. So now we've got our gradient. And I should mention this, when you're going to do a gradient with the Gradient tool, when you pull it, it's always nice to know, well, which way is this gradient going to proceed. And if you look at this gradient preview, sometimes it could look like this, and what'll happen is, whatever's on the left side of this, is going to be what's the start of the gradient, whatever's on the right side is going to be where it's going to end. So right now it happens to be backwards, and so if I just flip it with one of these two icons, you see how I can flip it? It's meaning back and forth, I want to make sure that the darker end is on this side. Now that I've done that, I can go ahead and hold down the Shift key to just get this so it's vertical and then we'll just place that in there. And I'll go ahead and accept that, and there we've now got our sky behind it and it's using the same colors that we had before. So that's just a quick way, and here we're using a gradient. In this case, we're using it in a more traditional way. We're using that gradient to create a sky that matches the sky tones that were there but without the clouds in it.

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