Then I brought the skies into Lightroom and cleaned them up some more, adjusted the colors/contrast, and removed noise.

This way you will see a mirror reflection of the gorgeous colors. So I made a copy of the sky and flipped it and dragged it under the original sky and slightly blurred it.

When you have a beautiful colorful sky on the beach you usually see the colors reflected on the water and wet sand. I will post a complete step-by-step tutorial later on how I made these overlays in Photoshop, but basically I cloned out distracting elements and cropped out everything but the gorgeous sunset/sunrise. I made the sky overlays from these Pixabay images ( 1, 2, 3). You can use these on any images, but I think they look especially nice on beach-themed photos. Today I am so excited to post a stunning 'Beach Skies' overlay set and step-by-step tutorial so you can use them on your own images in a realistic manner. It is quite easy to add a new sky using Photoshop/PSE, but there are tricks to making it look realistic.

I love when I capture a gorgeous sky 'in-camera', but there are times you have that otherwise perfect shot with a blah-boring sky. All of these freebies can be used together for you to create you own gorgeous beach fine art image! Today I have a set of beach sky overlays and later this week I am releasing a beach action (called Beachy Luxe) and fine art texture. It is warm and sunny here and I want to go visit Galveston Island and go walk on the beach! Unfortunately we are stuck at home for now, so this week it is all about the beach here on the CoffeeShop Blog.

Beach photoshop brushes free download