Sky replacement

Sky replacement

Swap an overcast sky for a bright one without touching the house, the light on it, or anything silhouetted against it.

$29per listing

One photo or the whole shoot — drop them anywhere on this page. Free to try, no account.

The same exterior relit to dusk
The unaltered daytime original
OriginalNew sky

A real render. Drag to compare — the power lines, aerials and neighbouring roofline all survive.

Features

What you get back

Not just an altered JPEG.

Only the sky changes

The light on the building keeps its direction, intensity and white balance. A new sky over the old lighting is what makes a replacement read as composited.

Wires and aerials survive

Power lines, TV aerials, branches and neighbouring rooflines stay exactly where they are. Removing utility lines is a prohibited alteration, not a tidy-up.

Geometry checked

Every render is compared against your original and rejected if the framing moved or the building changed.

Three conditions

Clear blue, soft scattered cloud, or defined cumulus. Bright enough to help, plausible enough for the location.

The original comes back

Edited image and unaltered original as an ordered pair, ready for the photo sequence.

Marked and disclosed

Invisible watermark and IPTC metadata on every render, with disclosure wording generated per surface.

How it works

Three steps, about thirty seconds

  1. Step 1

    Upload a daytime exterior

    JPEG or PNG, no account and no card. Your original is never altered and never used for training.

  2. Step 2

    We render, then check our own work

    Renders that drift your framing or blow out the windows are discarded before you see them. You get shown the attempt log either way.

  3. Step 3

    Download the pair

    Altered image and unaltered original, ordered for the MLS, with disclosure text per surface and an audit record.

A narrower edit than it looks

Replacing a sky sounds like the easiest thing on this list, and it is the one where models most often overreach. Given a new sky, a model will happily warm the render to match it, lift the shadows, and quietly tidy the power lines out of the frame while it is there.

All three are defects. The first two make the composite obvious; the third changes what is being sold. So the instruction is explicit that the light on the building does not change, and every render is compared against the original before you see it.

What stays

Anything silhouetted against the sky is part of the property's context: wires, aerials, branches, the neighbour's roofline. A listing photo with the cables edited out is a photo of a house that does not exist, and several rulebooks name utility lines specifically.

FAQ

Questions worth asking

Replace a sky

One photo or the whole shoot, no account, first result in under half a minute.