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Why Your Sky Masks Look Fake (And the Lightroom Workaround That Finally Fixes It)
I spent last October shooting the Cascades during peak color. The light was doing everything right, the maples were on fire, and I came home with a set of frames I was genuinely excited about. Then I sat down to edit them and ran straight into the same wall I’ve been hitting for years: sky masks in Lightroom that looked clinical and wrong, with that telltale halo glowing along the ridgeline like a neon sign that says “this photo was edited by a computer.