best photoshop teacher on KZread. No words.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Thank you so much 😁

I'd stumbled upon the same 'trick' myself - that I could 'Select Sky' and then split into two separate editable areas- but your ATNs are going to make my life much easier. Thanks for your generosity Blake, much appreciated!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Enjoy!

Thank you SO much Blake. This is just another reason I love being a member of f64 Elite. I have struggled a lot with learning how to create actions. Being that actions are more advanced I am completely immersed in learning all the other aspects of ACR and Photoshop.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! So glad to hear it! 😁

thank you Blake. Just awesome! Looking forward to experimenting with my BW work.

Definitely my fave teacher on KZread. Thanks.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! That makes me smile ear to ear :)

@johncall293

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy liquify tool?

The 3 down votes (up 659) are probably people who knew this and are mad you shared it. Great work, thanks.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, I think they are my ex girlfriends that didn't become my wife 😆😆😆 I always have 3 thumbs down. Gotta be them 😂

Thanks so much for these actions! After only ten minutes with them I know I'm going to be using them a lot in my landscape photography.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

So glad I could help!

Great job, Blake. I love this so much as you know I do a lot of Astro Photography with landscapes that have to be blended due to tracking with sky and not tracking with landscape. Also so nice to be a able to quickly select sky as I did in that flint hills black and white where I got a completely different mood using an inverse sky. Anyway, sharing this with others. Great job my friend.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Pleasure! This update is so much fun 😁

Brilliant and gracious. Thank you, Blake!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Peter!

Hi Blake, An excellent tutorial and fantastic action pack. I've got it downloaded and ready to use! Thanks for all your hard work on this.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My sincere pleasure! Thanks!

I’m going to send you a message, but it’s safe to say you just saved me about 75% time and effort on selecting and separating my sky and foreground. I completely missed this new selection tool, but I was already using the sky replacement tool as a selection tool instead. Mind. Blown.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Sweet 😁 this is a pretty slick tool. Thanks Adobe 😁

Holy Moly dude! The second feature's a WOW! I'm planning on experimenting with images contains lots of trees because we know the challenges trying to mask them. Thanks for the Actions

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁 glad you like it as much as me 😁

Thank you for this tutorial, such good content I've learned a ton from your tutorials. I really appreciate your giving us access to your knowledge

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Glad you find it helpful :)

Blake you are absolutely one of a kind! Thanks for that quick sky trick. I did see it but had no idea why it was there, now I can make quick masks and adjustments with ease. Keep it up. Always like learning new things.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad I can help 😁

Thank you Blake for putting your creativity and effort to further enhance this new feature.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My sincere pleasure 😁

How did I miss this one? Actions loaded and ready to use. Thanks for this one Blake

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure, this one was a fun one!

Thanks Blake, I really enjoy and learn from your efforts

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it, even little thank you's mean a lot!

You’re the best Blake! Love your free actions! Thanks 🙏 I use your actions more than anyone else’s. 👌🥰👍

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Thanks, Nash!

Great video Blake. Thanks for the Actions. They’ll really help speed up my workflow!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😁

This is a really useable hint and set of actions! Thank you very much and best of luck to you.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found it useful!

Great tutorial, keep them coming! I also agree on not replacing skies from every photo 👍

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Excellent actions and tutorial, answers a lot of queries.

Thanks for the tip. I shoot a lot of botanicals against rear lit white backgrounds and using the select sky option makes for some really clean masks so that I can then put the image over a solid color background.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Nice use of that feature :)

Dear Blake, I just watched your video "Better Than the Sky Replacement Tool - Photoshop 2021." I also downloaded your actions. Words fail me. The video was wonderful The actions are unbelievable!! You are a genius! Thank you again. You have given so much to the creative community.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Thank you so much 😁 it means a lot to me to receive such a sincere note of gratitude, you are awesome 😁

Interesting how I just needed to do this and WHAM; especially the color balancing & adjustments to make the sky look like it is the original.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Love it!

I watched your video the other day and before I got the actions, I used the technique to improve (I think ) an image I took last year. very handy :)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Success!

Thanks for a great tutorial and of course the actions.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you!

This is awesome...I've struggled to learn PS for years and mostly rely on LR for editing. The tips and tricks you teach has not only expanded my editing options, but made PS a LOT easier to use. Thank you and keep up the awesome content!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

So great to hear! I love it! Comments like this make me want to make even more!

Blake thank you so much for this hidden Gem. You are a very hard worker and spend an inordinate amount of time on time saving actions so that we don’t have to spend the time. It makes our live’s a lot easier. Thanks for the actions.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! I do what I can!

This is going to be awesome for IR especially on days when the sky isn't what you would want it to be, so much quicker editing.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

This video and the actions are awesome! Thank you for sharing them!!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you, very informative and simply explained.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Good idea how to use select sky tool. Thank you Blake!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Enjoy 😁

Wow wow wow - mind blown! Thank you Blake!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

So cool, huh?

Great work as usual and thanks for sharing your expertise! For some of my images I will be using the Sky Replacement that "need" a sky replacement :) . However replacing the sky will not address white balance issues or color adjustments that may be needed in the foreground. I have images of Israel and Jordan that even with white balance corrected, the colors that I saw will still not appear as they did to my eye at the time of capture. Now we have both tools thanks to your sharing. Thank you again!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! It is a very clever tool for sure!

Absolutely brilliant!!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Thanks for the tutorial and actions Blake!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

No problem!

Good job Blake Thanks for the action

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! My pleasure!

Funny I went to the selection pulldown and found sky and was unhappy to find there were no skies there like I saw on the KZread videos. Later found that the sky replacement was under Edit. I hae to say it does an amazing job. I downloaded the actions you made and plan to try then out. You are da man. As always.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Phillip! They did put it in an odd spot, didn't they?

This is great, thanks!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

This video definitely deserves a like

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁

Wow, you have just blown my Mind, once again, Thank you 😊 CB UK O

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanx, awesome pro tip, this might even change the way you take pictures.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! It very well could.

Thank you brother for sharing your knowledge in such a simple way, I am learning a lot with you, greetings from Venezuela. Thanks for the Actions

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁

This is great. Looks like I have a new action for my Blake Rudis action panel.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Love it!

Great job Blake... It’s funny as I have often selected the sky and inverted it to get a good selection for the foreground. Looks like this will be a handy tool, and it seems this a Photoshop’s answer to all the Luminar hoopla. Your actions are always well done and useful!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks! I agree, very useful tool!

@joelwexler

3 жыл бұрын

I'd make a new layer, use the blue channel, over expose, make a mask.. this is so great.

You da man, Blake! Thank you!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁 my pleasure!

Great stuff, Blake. This is really useful. Will definitely put the 'combo' action in MyPanel!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

But make sure the other actions are installed also and stay in the original folder or they won't run

Time to move things around in the My Panel. Thanks Blake

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I know right!

Wow!! Awesome tool, thanks.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing!

awsome followed this link from the 30day PS mastery course---learning so much! :)

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I love it!

Dude! you always find the hidden gems. I glossed right over that selection, but your explanation helped me solve some things I was trying to do. With or without the actions this is great information, thanks so much!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad I could help!

Awesome Blake! Thanks for sharing.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Any time!

Outstanding. Thank you.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great video, Blake. I was wondering if the sky selection was the same selection that was used when you do the replacement tool. Now I know. I hope you and your family are doing well. Take care.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We are well 😁 I appreciate your well wishes!

Thx a lot :-) Helps very good !

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Dude you know your thing. Saludos de Puerto Rico.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

:) I appreciate it!

Thx man!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

Awesome! Thank you Blake :-)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

I’m a new fan of Blake and f64. Joining you guys now. Seem to me good instruction.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I do appreciate your support 😁

Hi Blake: Thanks for preparing and sharing this video. The tip you have uncovered is really useful. I hope you don't mind, but I have shared your video with members of an on-line photography community that I belong to. Cheers, Keith

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

These videos are free to share away! I appreciate it, thanks for helping me spread the word.

@keithpinn152

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Blake: I hope my sharing will allow the members of our Community to see the value of the work that you do, and hopefully this will build your business more. Cheers, Keith

Thanks for that. I agree that its much more useful than the Sky Replacement Tool.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It's clever, I'll give them that, but THIS is incredible!

Nicely done 😃

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Great video!!!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Good actions. Thank you,

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great tutorial, comme d'habitude, bravo

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My Pleasure!

thank you sir

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing

This works great! It is a far better approach (I think) than sky replacement.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, far more useful I think.

I agree.

not been able to install photoshop cc2021 yet due to a bug when trying to open any image. i will download your, once again, very generous, actions pack, then install into the new version of photoshop. i don't think they would work unless the sky option in the select menu was available

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct :( Sorry to hear that, but when you do get it up and running, you can use these actions.

Man I love you so much right now! lol I was using the Background Erase tool to change my skies (yup, I do it quite often - unless I am using a boring sky as negative space) but I hated it because: 1) It's a destructive method; 2) It's not accurate, since if the sky had some white areas (for example), that tool got rid of parts that I wanted to save, like parts of buildings; 3) If the sky had different shades of blue, you had to select each one of them keeping the Tolerance low to avoid getting rid of parts of the image; 4) It's a round tool!!! And how can you be accurate with a round tool?! So my method was: duplicate the layer, select the parts I wanted to save, refine selection, mask the selection, go on the previous layer, get rid of the sky, go back on the other layer and recuperate the parts I cancelled with the Background Erase tool, pixel by pixel in many cases. Now, thanks to this video, you just saved me a ton of time! I could make you a statue just for this! lol

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Heck yes!!! I love those ah ha moments of discovery!

@simonabergerphotography

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Actually, it was more a "WTF?!?" moment, since I learned to use that tool to replace skies in a college class on Photoshop! I am studying Digital Photography for goodness sake, I should know about the Sky Replacement and Select Sky features, right? RIGHT??? (Sorry, I am still in the WTF moment! LOL)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! I can teach you the right way! Shoot me an email, blake@f64academy.com I'll take care of you 😁

Hei, super tutorial, thanks, but....... Is it no longer possible to make arrows in Photoshop CC 2021. I can't find the "weight" option that previously allowed me to set the thickness of the arrow. Can you tell me if that is indeed not possible anymore?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't looked into it

I seem to be having a problem :( Using the Sky Replacement tool is fine but I am seeing the existing sky behind the new sky, particularly when there are clouds in the existing sky. Its like the sky mask is not solid? Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Hi Blake, That is a great tutorial ... only one issue, the skies as "jpegs" are not recogized when trying to import them!... same issue with all the skies that i have accumulated. What am I missing? or doing wrong?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you are referring to. I have imported y skies into the Sky Replacement Tool as JPEGS.

@christopherdias2355

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Thanks for your quick response!…….sorry Blake! I did not mean that your skies are the problem… all my jpeg skies do to import using the import function within the filter with the sky replacement tool…. is there a setting in preferences somewhere to enable Importing skies?… is it a photoshop issue? Cheers! Chris

@christopherdias2355

3 жыл бұрын

Figured it out! The jpegs have to be IMPORTED into the app, one at a time!... best into a new folder! Thanks again for response.!

I have a question I hope you could give me some advice. Since I uploaded the new 2021 PS, it has been an utter disaster. After three hours on the phone with Adobe and giving them access to my computer, every action, every preset has been erased and also no new 2021 PS. The second tech did his research and apparently my computers CPU is not up to the task. So now I am torn between buying and installing a new CPU or a new complete new computer. What would you recommend for current and future operations? Thanks in advance.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It would really depend on your PC specs and how long you've had this computer. It's hard for me to make a recommendation without knowing more. Feel free to email me: Blake@f64academy.com

Hey Blake I don't get the regular notifications I'm subscribed

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure why, I don't handle those notifications, KZread does.

Impressive.....

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

is it possible to download sky replacements or is it just the ones that are preloaded by photoshop? if so where can they be found online, and where do they get stored in photoshop? whats their extension name? TIA

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can create your own folder and import your own.

@jasonlee4267

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academyso do you know what file types they are? Are they simply jpeg images dropped into a specificly named folder?

Could this be used to make selections for exposure blending easier?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It sure can.

@shanebrennan7856

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy that's so cool. Sometimes find it hard to get an exact selection for blends that km happy with. Thanks Blake.

I unfortunately lost the skys that came with PS 2021. Do you have any idea where I can download them from? Also where do I set the default location for skys?. The strange thing is the original skys are still in the Sky Replacement dialog box but PS apparently can't find the sky files and gives me an error. I have even uninstalled PS and reinstalled it. But still the system gives me an error saying it can't find the skies.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

That is very strange. I'm not entirely sure. When I go into that folder, I don't see them there.

@DavidQuillman

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy The fix was to delete all the skies from PS 2021. Then close PS and then reopen PS. All the missing skies returned to PS

I've been doing sky replacements for many years in my professional work, so I was kind of disappointed by the limited usability and practicality of the sky replacement tool. There are some nice skies in the library, but Photoshop centers them in the image rather than raise the horizon point of the replacement sky to match that of the photo's horizon line. The fade tool works a bit, but I find myself literally raising the new sky and tweaking the perspective to match the lens perspective of the image. Then there's the masking issue. It doesn't really create a good mask for tall objects like towers and trees. Ironic, since Photoshop is typically good at content aware stuff like this. So I create my own mask anyway and make layer style adjustments, which I've been doing for years. Bottom line is I was really hoping for a true fractal AI engine that could realistically render clouds and lighting similar to what Bryce has been doing with it's landscape software for twenty years. What we got however is a pretty toy which might appeal to novice or first time users, but to experienced artists and retouchers, it's just a toy. The sky library is nice, but it could use dozens of more royalty free images.

Great video, although you went so fast it was hard to follow

So I am guessing these videos are designed for the more advanced as the average user does not use key commands. This platform is hard enough to use then you ad having to literally learn another language, ie key commands on top of trying to figure out how to be skilled at photoshop. Why don't these tutorials give you the path rather then keystroke shortcuts which no one knows except for some pro? Then there is the concept of how close are we getting to just doing AI and photography skills are no longer a factor. I mean if I can take a bad photo and make it amazing in photoshop does that make me a good photographer or just good at creating what is essentially a human version of an AI image? Yea I think photography in a traditional sense is on the way out. Even Ansel Adam's manipulated his photos but at least they were real and not photoshopped. We are going way beyond dodging and burning and even my better half says she no longer knows if a photograph is real anymore. I want to be a good photographer but I cant compete with AI and people editing photos in photo shop to make a lackluster shot great.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Being a good photographer starts with accepting that you are an artist first, and an artist will use any tool necessary to make good art, period. These are tools, Ansel had his too, and for his time, he was "Photoshopping" his images to the extent he could. Open your mind and your photos will come to life. There is a lot more to good art and photography than just the camera. Photoshop IS the BEST digital darkroom we have.

I'll be the sole contrarian here by stating my position that I am against these kinds of AI tools to alter what we saw when we took the photo. Live with the sky you had or come back another day.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

For sure, but you can use the select sky here which is much more powerful in my opinion.

@paolofat52

3 жыл бұрын

Dean, Not always an option. Its a tool you can choose to use or not. I prefer to not have arbitrary limits on my creative vision.