Adobe, of course, prospers from this by creating a better program, but can only do so on a limited basis due to patent infringement concerns. This certainly seems to have happened with their sky replacement feature, in more ways than one. Luminar is admittedly at the forefront when it comes to new enhancements, but the company, it seems to me, throws their new features into the marketplace before fully beta testing them, perhaps waiting for customers to start lodging complaints before making proper corrections.

(As for Photoshop, it has two drawbacks: it can't yet do water reflections and it's not always the easiest thing to access your current library through PS, and this isn't mentioning the fact that PS sky replacement requires more training than Luminar.) Naturally, I've resorted to the usual tricks offered, such as Global and Close Gaps and Positioning, but these don't work sufficiently well. Luminar's big problem is totally getting rid of a previous sky at the horizon line, and fully replacing it with the new sky. (I understand that On1 2022 will offer the same feature when it's released.) As of this date, August 2021, sky replacements are still posing a problem, albeit in different ways for Luminar and Photoshop, the two programs currently offering the so-called easy way to replace skies.

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