Photoshop "Sky Replacement": I have read some of the post about the "photo shop sky replacement" and it seems that a lot of the posters were not really for it.....personally I think...

tca2267 Loc: Florida

I have read some of the post about the "photo shop sky replacement" and it seems that a lot of the posters were not really for it.....personally I think it's neat!I do have a question for those who use it........

I have attempted to bring in my own sky's but I haven't been able to. When I click on "import skies" and go to my folders with my sky files it shows that my folders are "empty"........do the sky photos that I want to import have to be in a certain format? Mine have all be edited in ACDee and are JPEG's.

twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

The solution is simple - switch to Luminar!

bleirer

Click on the little arrow next to the sky box then click the +, navigate to your sky.

Start around 8:30 here https://youtu.be/cdjsUlOxvrU

zug55 Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas

At some point we have to ask ourselves whether we are photographers or graphic artists. I have a good friend who uses some of my photographs as basis for her computer art. Her work is really cool, and I love how she adds her own vision to my photographs. But replacing the sky and passing this off as an authentic photograph seems ethically challenged to me. Perhaps I could be convinced if Photoshop and Lightroom come out with wife replacement.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

zug55 wrote:

At some point we have to ask ourselves whether we are photographers or graphic artists. ...

I don't.

bleirer

zug55 wrote:

At some point we have to ask ourselves whether we are photographers or graphic artists. I have a good friend who uses some of my photographs as basis for her computer art. Her work is really cool, and I love how she adds her own vision to my photographs. But replacing the sky and passing this off as an authentic photograph seems ethically challenged to me. Perhaps I could be convinced if Photoshop and Lightroom come out with wife replacement.

If i took both shots I have no ethical issues. I wouldn't use a canned sky though.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bleirer wrote:

If i took both shots I have no ethical issues. I wouldn't use a canned sky though.

Not even if you liked it?

bleirer

Longshadow wrote:

Not even if you liked it?

I personally wouldn't use it because taking the sky photo is half the fun, but I wouldn't give a demerit to any one that did.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bleirer wrote:

I personally wouldn't use it because taking the sky photo is half the fun, but I wouldn't give a demerit to any one that did.

Hmmm. Could making the sky more appealing possibly be the other half of the fun?

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

zug55 wrote:

At some point we have to ask ourselves whether we are photographers or graphic artists. I have a good friend who uses some of my photographs as basis for her computer art. Her work is really cool, and I love how she adds her own vision to my photographs. But replacing the sky and passing this off as an authentic photograph seems ethically challenged to me. Perhaps I could be convinced if Photoshop and Lightroom come out with wife replacement.

If you are talking about documentary photography or photojournalism, then it is certainly unethical. Otherwise, photographers have been replacing skies and making other composite photographs ever since photography was invented and they never felt they were passing anything off. If your friend is using your photographs with another art medium then she is doing mixed media.

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zug55 wrote:

At some point we have to ask ourselves whether we are photographers or graphic artists. I have a good friend who uses some of my photographs as basis for her computer art. Her work is really cool, and I love how she adds her own vision to my photographs. But replacing the sky and passing this off as an authentic photograph seems ethically challenged to me. Perhaps I could be convinced if Photoshop and Lightroom come out with wife replacement.

That question never comes up for me. When I was hired as “Photograper/Graphic Illustrator” I just showed up and got right to work. Most (all ?) of the posts that include the term “Graphic Artist” seem rather clueless as to the jobs that graphic artists actually do.

bleirer

Longshadow wrote:

Hmmm. Could making the sky more appealing possibly be the other half of the fun?

Wouldn't feel right to me. If I sign it even if only in the exif, i feel that I'm saying that i made it, even if I moved things around, erased parts, replaced parts and used brushes to paint part of it, at least they are all my pieces parts.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bleirer wrote:

Wouldn't feel right to me. If I sign it even if only in the exif, i feel that I'm saying that i made it, even if I moved things around, erased parts, replaced parts and used brushes to paint part of it, at least they are all my pieces parts.

Still, wouldn't have you made it?

bleirer

Longshadow wrote:

Still, wouldn't have you made it?

Don't worry, I still think you're a real photographer if you use someone else's sky. Andy Warhol comes to mind, where he used parts of other's work to make something unique.

Would you (personally - you) sell a photograph with someone else's sky? I'm not arguing that it is wrong, just asking what you think.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bleirer wrote:

Don't worry, I still think you're a real photographer if you use someone else's sky. Andy Warhol comes to mind, where he used parts of other's work to make something unique.

Would you (personally - you) sell a photograph with someone else's sky? I'm not arguing that it is wrong, just asking what you think.

No, I would use a sky (mine) I had on file. I just don't take other peoples works (or pieces of it), no matter how much I like them. I have a couple of dozen images from Iceland that a fellow traveler took, things that I didn't shoot. They're in my Iceland folder under his name. We agreed to exchange images we took on the trip.

I do Have maybe a dozen "neat" images on my computer, but they are in a folder entitled "Not Mine".
Only because once in a while I look at them.
I'd never use them for anything though.

Scruples