Replacing Sky in Photoshop 7

[Mike Hallock]

I am in need of step by step instructions on how to replacing a sky in PS 7.0. Anybody have a good way to do that?

Thanks.

[michaelnotar]

i would suggest posting the picture (both the new sky image and the other one). you will need to select the sky with the lasso tool first and there are infinite ways to complete the process.

[DougAxford]

Mike is right, just too many variables. Post the 2 any you'll probably get lots of suggestions.

[Noel_Carboni]

Without seeing the photo I don't know if it's a blue sky or a white sky or what. If it *is* more or less solid colored, I might suggest using the Magic Wand tool (I think that was available even back in 7) to select the sky, then paste a new sky from another image into the selection.

-Noel

[David_Buzzard]

It's a little complicated, but do-able. The commands might be a little different, since I'm about 5 versions ahead of you, but it should work.

1) Go to the channel window, where you find a red, green, blue layers. Pick the one with the most contrast between the sky and the ground, and duplicate it.

2) Select the duplicate channel, and then open the levels palate and increase the contrast until it's a pure white/black image.

3) Click on the duplicate channel, then go to Selection, and hit 'load selection', and then invert the selection.

4) Go back to the layer palate, where you should see the ground selected. Copy that selection to a new layer. Add a coloured layer under that so you can see what you're doing, and Bob's you uncle.

David Buzzard