And as previously mentioned, I had the choice of creating a duplicate layer, which would allow me to tweak the layer further in a non-destructive manner. How would Adobe fare?Īdobe recognized the night sky as being a sky, but struggled to determine what was sky and what was not. Luminar 4 struggled with identifying the night sky. I began with a photo that I took of an unprocessed 3 minute low-ISO photo of a radio telescope taken at night.

Not everyone experiences this, but it’s worth mentioning. Luminar 4, and for that matter, Photoshop 2019, run very quickly. Photoshop offers the choice of creating another layer or a duplicate layer, including all the masks and the layer of the sky that come with it.Īnother difference is that Photoshop version 22 has so far been absurdly slow for almost every function on my 2017 iMac with 40 GB of RAM. When used in Photoshop, Luminar 4 will create another layer. Luminar 4 can only use JPG or TIFF files.

I was curious as to how it would compare with Photoshop Sky Replacement. I’ve used Luminar 4’s AI Sky Replacement to do “drop in” my own sky before. This can be time-consuming, so I am always interested in ways to quicken the process. While I don’t generally replace skies, I do take low-ISO night or “blue hour” twilight photos of the foreground, then take successive “stacked” photos of the night sky, and then blend them together.

One of the most anticipated features in Photoshop is their AI-powered Sky Replacement. Recently, in conjunction with the October 2020 Adobe MAX Creativity Conference, Adobe released the eagerly awaited version of Photoshop version 22.0, which comes with quite a few new features, many of which are powered by AI.

Ai sky replacement