What you need to look for is one where the trees are dark and well separated from the lighter background fog.
This displays the colour channel as a black-and-white image. Then in the Channels Studio Panel, click each colour channel in turn to view it. To select the trees, click on the background image in the Layers Studio Panel to ensure that it selected. Now turn off the fog layer in the Layers Studio Panel to hide it whilst selecting the trees in the image. You will then see the new mask added below the fog overlay. You can then click the “mask layer” icon to the bottom of the Layers Studio Panel. It’s a good idea to do this as it preserves the original masks and allows you to refine Opacity and other settings on individual masks.įirst, click the fog overlay to select it. You might not realise it but it’s possible to add multiple masks to the same layer in Affinity Photo. This will make the fog appear to pass behind the trees, creating a feeling of depth. After turning on the masks that came with the overlay the fog blends seamlessly into the image.ĭespite this, I want to make a further enhancement to remove some of the fog from the foreground trees nearest the camera. There you can see the edge of the overlay at the top and bottom of the frame. The image on the left shows the overlay without the masks. You never know when these might come in useful.Here you can see the difference the masks make to blending the overlay with the image. To speed the process up, before you open the software, make up a folder that holds your replacement sky images and, for best practice, whenever you’re out in the field and an impressive sky comes into view, take an image and build up a bank of different skies taken at different times of the day. What’s more, although the technique may sound a little complicated, it’s actually really simple and can be done in less than five minutes, leaving you more time to focus on which images you’re going to upload to the stock sites. As the name suggests, the software offers professionals the ability to swap out a boring sky for something much more eye-catching and sellable. Well, luckily Affinity Photo offers a solution in the shape of its replacement sky features which you can see in the video tutorial above. What can you do to rescue the situation and save the day? Only one problem – mother nature isn’t playing ball and has served up flat, boring skies that won’t do anything to help your frames stand out from the crowd once you’re up against your opposition. PICTURE THE SCENE you’ve booked flights and hotels, taken time away from the family and brought all your kit to shoot a landscape scene with the intention of making money from the images you produce via your favoured stock sites.
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