This 33 page tutorial utilizes Frank Hoppen's collection of motor sports photos to learn how to do some tricky sky replacements. Frank often has to shoot on less than ideal weather days. How do you turn a gray overcast day into a sunny, blue sky day? Or how about that bland white sky? The images below are really tricky but, in the end fairly easy to do IF you know the tricks – there where no complex masks used to composite the skys into the images. I go over the construction of each of these images in detail. Along the way we learn something about:

Color Correcting in LAB

Making Masks from RGB channels

Advanced Blending Options

Layer Apply Modes

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These images illustrate typical problems faced by photographers shooting under less than ideal lighting situations and the techniques used here can be applied to a wide range of conditions and subject matter. Try to think how you might apply these ideas to your own work with outdoor locations. All images were captured by Frank Hoppen ©2002 with a Canon D30 in raw format, processed to 16 bit Tiff fi les. These fi les are supplied for instructional purposes only - all rights reserved – no other use of any kind permitted without permission.

33 page PDF - 3.8 megs -

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The sample files for the tutorial are available as a separate download through a link in the PDF - you will need Aladdin's "Stuffit Expander" to decompress the sample files!