In this 90-second Photoshop tip, you’ll
learn and advanced method for creating blends
with the “Blend If” sliders.
Hi, Jesus Ramirez here for the 
Photoshop Training
Channel.
You might remember that in a recent tutorial
I showed you how you could use “Blend If”
in the Layer Style dialog to do sky replacements.
You can do so by selecting the blue channel,
and on the “This Layer” section, drag
the White Point to the left to hide blue pixels.
Don’t forget that you can hold Alt Option
on the Mac and click on the point to split
it in two.
Then separate them to create smoother transitions.
As you can see, this works magic!
You can see that the new sky came through
even those difficult areas
in between the leaves and branches.
The problem is that sometimes you may need
to adjust the layer,
and when you do the sky  comes back.
That’s because "Blend If" uses color and luminosity
to create the blend.
If you change those, then the blend changes.
Look at the at the layer thumbnail!
The sky is there, do you see it?
The advanced tip that I want to show you today
is that you can right-click on the layer
where you applied the blend and select
Convert to Smart Object.
Look at the layer thumbnail now.
Do you see a difference?
There is now actual transparency where the
sky used to be.
If you make an adjustment, the sky will not come back
because the pixels are now truly hidden!
I’m curious to know if this was something
new for you.
Simply type "yes it was" or "no it wasn’t" in
the comments!
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