User's Manual

Table Of Contents

• Amount. This slider allows you to adjust the intensity of the added object.

• Warmth. Use this slider to warm or cool the added object. This adjustment essentially adds Cyan or

Yellow to the object to change its color temperature.

• Relight. The AI Augmented Sky tool relights the added object so the lighting and colors of the original

object match the lighting and colors of the sky. This slider adjusts the intensity of the relighting effect.

• Place object. Just click on this button to modify or move the added object. By dragging around the

element, it’s easy to place it in the perfect position. You can also rotate and scale the object.

Advanced Controls

• Mask Refinement. This slider fixes small details and holes that were not filled by the added object.

You may need to adjust this if the image has fine details such as trees or wires on the foreground.

• Defocus. This slider will defocus the added object and is useful when a shallow focus is used with a

foreground object.

• Flip Object. If you’d like to transpose the image, check this box to flip in on its horizontal access for a

mirrored image.

choose Show Custom Sky Objects. You can copy your own JPEG or PNG files into this

folder. It is recommended to keep fewer than 50 skies at a time loaded for better

performance. You will see the skies from this folder appear in the main list of sky objects

available for AI Augmented Sky. To remove the objects from this list, remove them from the

folder.

NOTE: For best results with custom images, preprocess the photos. Ensure that the

background is pure black. This can be done using the Light tool, then export a new JPEG

file.

TIP: If you need to create PNG files with transparent areas you can use Affinity Photo or

Adobe Photoshop to do this. There are also many stock photography websites that offer

ready-to-use PNG files.

TIP: If you want to use the Augmented Sky Tool to add multiple objects, you’ll need to use

the Stamped Layer option. Please create a new Stamped Layer and then apply the

Augmented Sky Tool to the new layer.

Prepping Objects for AI Augmented Sky

AI Augmented Sky will work with your own objects if they are in PNG format with the Alpha

channel or JPEG format with a fully black background.

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