With Photoshop updates now regularly featuring new AI tools, has image editing changed for the better, or should we be concerned?

Luminar 4 was the first image editor to offer AI sky replacement, with Adobe Photoshop following soon after.

The new Sky Replacement feature in Photoshop is sure to delight and infuriate in equal measures. Employing Sensei – Adobe’s artificial intelligence technology – Photoshop will analyze the image, figure out where the sky is, and replace it for you.

Like any automated tool in Photoshop, Sky Replacement works brilliantly on some photos, but less so on others. The real question is not how well it works, though, but whether you think it’s right that a landscape photo should be enhanced in this way.

We’ve already seen a similar automated sky replacement feature in Skylum’s Luminar 4, and the newly released Luminar AI goes one further by letting you drop distant scenery like mountains in the background of your photos. So whether we agree with it or not, AI is the new direction in image editing.