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Skylum Teases AI-powered Automatic Sky Replacement Filter for Luminar

One of the most popular image editing “tricks” is swapping out the sky in a photograph. While not appropriate for documentary images, it can make quite a bit of difference to whether an image is so-so or appears amazing (“appears” because, of course, it isn’t strictly a photograph at that point). Originally the process for swapping out the sky in a digital or digitized image involved using layers in Photoshop and carefully painting a mask. More recently, we’ve seen smarter masking tools to help with the job. Now, Skylum says it has created a simple, one-click, AI-powered, sky replacement filter that the company will unveil as part of its upcoming Luminar 4 release. Why Convincing Sky Replacement Is Hard Manually...

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