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"I'm quite pleased with this collection. I own presets from several other companies and these are my new favorites! Well done." - John R.

"OMG these are amazing. I had never used overlays until now but now I'll never be able to look back." Sarah I

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Sky Overlays

Compatibility:
Our overlays are compatible with any software that allows for layers, including Photoshop (Sky Replacement compatible), Elements, Gimp (including the free version), Affinity Photo, and more.  Thisdoes not include Adobe Lightroom.

Bring your photos to life with Luxe Sky Overlays. Choose from 153 sky overlays, including night skies, day skies, moons, stormy skies, and more. Plus, blend and edit your skies perfectly with 57 bonus sky Actions for Photoshop (to apply toning, blending, and other adjustments to ensure a seamless background/foreground match).

All skies min 6000px width. New to overlays?Learn with Luxe!

The sky is such an integral part of landscape photography, as it adds a specific mood to the work. Use our collection of the best sky overlays to add a unique character to you photos. Blue sky overlays add gorgeous deep color to otherwise whited-out skies. Cloud overlays and sunset overlays can add balance and background detail to photos, and stormy skies give a dramatic character.

 

 

  • 153 Sky Overlays

  • 16 Quick Adjustment Actions for Sky & Scenery:Exposure Increase, Exposure Decrease, Contrast Increase, Contrast Decrease, Highlight Booster, Highlight Dimmer, Shadow Booster, Shadow Cruncher, Midtone Booster, Midtone Dimmer, Shadow Recovery, Highlight Recovery, Haze Add, Haze Remove, Saturation Increase, Saturation Decrease

    12 Quick Color Toning Actions for Sky & Scenery:Warm Toning +, Warm Toning ++, Cool Toning +, Cool Toning ++, Pink Toning +, Pink Toning ++, Teal Toning +, Teal Toning ++, Purple Toning +, Purple Toning ++, Fire Toning, Pastel Toning

    6 Sky-Specific Adjustment Actions:Soft to Dramatic, Soft to Ultra Dramatic, Lose the Drama, Ultra Lose the Drama, Super Lift, Super Drop

    20 Sky & Scenery Blending Filter Actions:Add Film Overlay, Warm the Highlights, Warm the Shadows, Cool the Highlights, Cool the Shadows, Day to Dusk Cool, Day to Dusk Warm, Day to Dusk Fire, Day to Night Cool, Color Tone Sun Warmth, Color Tone Overcast, Color Tone Desert Fire, Color Tone Cinema, Color Tone Soft Cooling Film, Color Tone Sand Blasted Film, Color Tone Berries & Cream, B&W Tone Modern Clean, B&W Tone Silvertone, B&W Tone Ultra Chrome , B&W Tone Sepia

    3 Sunburst Overlay Actions with Color Adjustment Tools:Golden Sunburst, Warm Sunlight, Red Sunburst

  • Read more about applying sky overlays.

     

  • A big shout out to our featured photographers: Julie Jourdan, FreeOverSea, Campbell & Co Photography, Jessica Kelley, Taylor Duggan, Natalie Gildersleeve, Iza Lyson, Prudence Photo, and Jodi Lynn Photography!

Frequently Asked Questions

Presets are essentially a configuration of settings, designed to quickly achieve the look of hours of editing, making global changes with a single click. On average, our presets change 30-50 settings.

Actions are prerecorded sets of multiple software commands, that play one after the other, to make specific changes to an image. Actions can be stacked, so that one is run after the other, in order to create more dynamic edits. Actions are typically complex and because of this, the use of actions saves a user large amounts of time from having to make each change individually in order to achieve a desired outcome. Actions are designed for Photoshop, not Lightroom! Be sure to review compatibility prior to purchase!

Overlays consist of an image (.jpeg or .png) that sits on top of your original image as a layer, in order to enhance your image. The layers are often blended by the user to create a realistic composition. Overlays are multi-purpose and can come in many forms from seasonal (rain and rainbows, snow, fog, skies, and leaves), to everyday magic (glitter, light leaks, bokeh, confetti, and fairy dust)!

A LUT is a tool that allows filmmakers, editors, and colorists to apply specific color grades to film/video (raw log footage) or images. Our LUTs or color lookup tables are .CUBE format presets created to colorgrade film clips. These can be used in most video-editing software and any photo editing software that allows for adjustment layers targeting lookup tables for color grading. We've included some common programs below, but if you know your software can support .CUBE LUTs, then you can use these!

Users must have Photoshop (Creative Cloud Subscription; PC or Mac) software from Adobe in order to use this collection. Check your compatibility HERE! -

AI-powered actions are not backwards compatible and will not work in Elements as they utilize the latest software features powered by Adobe Sensei AI!

The core of our AI Actions collections are the Subject, background, and sky targeted actions which apply localized changes in the touch of a button! We have combined our professional retouching adjustments with smart masking powered by Adobe Sensei Artificial Intelligence to facilitate this one-click localized retouching for a super-charged workflow without sacrificing style or control!

Like our AI Adaptive Presets, our AI Actions are powered by Adobe Sensei AI! Sensei allows our pro settings to be mapped to your image-specific subject, background, or sky in just a click!  

Directly from the Actions panel in your Photoshop workspace! No need to load plug-ins or edit in & out of camera raw!

NOPE! These will not use generative credits, as they utilize Adobe’s traditional machine-learning AI (Sensei), and not the generative AI (Firefly), to cleanly mask changes to specific parts of your image.

While these will play through like any other actions, we think these are best used in button mode! You can turn on “Button Mode” via the actions panel menu! See our guides for visuals! With button mode instead of pressing play for each action, you can just click through your workflow!

Unfortunately, no. Adobe has not designed their mobile iterations of Photoshop to support actions!

You will receive access to your digital files immediately after your payment has been processed and your purchase has completed.

On your order confirmation page, you should see an "Access Digital Content" link. Additionally, all customers will receive a download email immediately following purchase.

If you did not receive a download email, please check your spam folder and the email address associated with your form of payment. You may also contact us at support@theluxelens.com and we'll resend your email. We do send any products via mail - all delivery is digital. 

Actions are easy to install as all of the actions are bundled into a single .ATN file! You can double-click on the unzipped .ATN file to automatically load it into Photoshop OR you can select “Load Actions” from your Actions window menu in Photoshop and load your ATN file that way!

Our customer service team is here to help. We provide 1:1 personalized help that tackles any issue you may come across while using your presets.