Obviously it is every photographers dream to shoot the perfect shot, and often times that’s why a photograph will use 4 rolls of film on the same subject.  The more attempts that are made, the better the chance that the end result will be amazing.  Still, sometimes people just don’t have the time, money, or patience to get that killer shot.  Often that means some minor adjustments in Photoshop to correct the issues with shot.  However, there are times when an entire photograph needs a transplant.  In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to put a different sky into a photograph in order to give the image a more vibrant look appropriate for our theoretical project.

To begin with, I’ll right click on the background layer, and select New Layer from Background.  Next I’ll use the Quick Selection Tool to grab our old sky, and then hit delete to say goodbye to it forever.

Now I’ll need a sky to replace the old one.  It’s important that are new sky not have objects visible other the clouds and the sky, and it should also be at a comparable color level to avoid excessive palette altering.  Once we’ve found the perfect sky, let’s copy it and paste it into our original document:

That’s it!  We positioned the copy one layer below our ground and now we have the perfect sky to compliment the bright fields of grass in our photo.