Just watched several videos including two on layer masks. Very useful. Great tutorials. Thank you.

Hi Tim,

I attended your program last year at NECCC in Amherst, MA. Well done, easy to understand and thank you for the videos.

In response to sirius92119, the basic answer is that you need to very carefully create a selection that defines the sky (including all the gaps between the leaves and branches in the tree) and use that as the basis of the layer mask. You'll still need to fine-tune that mask by blurring it slightly (the Feather slider on the Masks panel in Photoshop CS4 is great for this) as well as fine-tuning the position of the mask (via the Contract/Expand slider in the Refine Edge dialog box). Of course, in many cases you'll still need to fine-tune your mask by painting on it with a very small brush using a soft-edge to blend the new sky carefully into the new image. I'll be covering this in more detail in upcoming videos.

How do you replace the sky in images that have trees with the "bad" sky visible through the branches and around the leaves?

Thank you for this excellent video.

Tim,
Well done! You're a skilled teacher, thanks for what you do.
Jack

Very nice. Thank you for the video. Your videos seem to have the read speed and details for following and understanding. I have seen other video tutorials were I simply get lost because of the pace the video jumps between menu items and tools without giving the person watching a chance to grasp what was going on.

Andreas

Ditto the above comments! Video tutorials--The Best yet! I have pages and pages of cut and paste but now, the videos will mean instant access to what I need to know right now! Still, I love those hard copies. Thank you Tim for all your generous efforts.

Yazoo, Tim! This is hot stuff!

WOW,
This adds yet another incredible aspect to Photoshop instruction; Tim, you have a winner here.

Steve

If Tim Grey has done then it has got to be good. I enjoy the books, the articles, the lectures and workshops, and the DDQ's and I know I will enjoy this as well. Another great idea from Tim Grey.