In Luminar, it was easier to relight the foreground to match the sky with only a single slider.īoth Luminar and Photoshop have really good automated Sky Replacement features which are much easier and faster than manually replacing the sky.

In Photoshop, you need to import your own skies but you can nicely organize them into folders.

While both products allow you to use your own images, Luminar lets you select your own skies without importing them into the software.

Photoshop creates a group of layers to give you additional power in masking and editing the sky replacement.

Photoshop did a much better job on night sky photographs.

You don’t need to buy another software license.

If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, you get the update for free.Allows you to scale and reposition the sky.

Here are the advantages of each software:

This could be taken care of with Topaz DeNoise and a layer mask but more work overall than Photoshop. With Luminar, after the replacement there was some strange noise artifacts around the wings.

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