clipped from www.ephotozine.com Change the sky using Gimp Change the sky using Gimp - If you have a scene with a sky that doesn't look interesting, have a go at swapping it for a better one. Michael Bates shows you how, using the free program Gimp. Even though a view can seem perfect when it is being photographed, there are often aspects of it that make you think, ‘If only that were different’. In a lot of cases this is can be altered by the photographer at the time, however in outdoor photography there will inevitably be factors outside of your control. One of these variables is, as we are all well aware, the weather. Even though this landscape view of Glossop is good enough, the sky itself remains boring, heavy and broody, what we want to do is introduce a new sky that will lighten the mood of the shot a little.