Sky Masking

When it comes to masking out a blue sky, there are several ways (as usual) to go about it. Sometimes you can select the sky via channels. Other times you might try the Select > Color Range option. However, for this project, let’s use the same Quick Selection tool method that we used earlier when selecting Karyna. Make sure the City layer is selected, and then use the Quick Selection tool to select the sky by clicking and dragging around it. You should see the marching ants appear.

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The marching ants appear around our selection.

You might have noticed that one of the buildings was accidentally included as part of my selection with ...

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