Layers locked together - cannot adjust replacement sky

[Patrick Bell]

I am following a tutorial to replace a sky in one of my photos. I manage to mask it and remove the old sky. I have a separate document with the sky and cut and past it into the master as a layer. I have tried the sky being opened (ie a pixel layer) or placed so it becomes an image layer.

In both cases I am unable to move or shrink the underlying sky image relative to the main image - I am stuck with the bit of the sky that happens to be under to removed old sky area.

I cannot seem to be able to manipulate the sky layer separately. Any advice

366966226_problemskyreplacement.afphoto

[thomaso]

Your document opens with an active pixel selection and with the Pan Tool (hand) selected.

To modify the sky layer ("Background") you …
• do not need a pixel selection (unless you want to edit parts of the sky only) and
• you can't use the Pan Tool to edit any layer.

With the Move Tool you can scale, move, stretch or rotate the sky layer by its bounding box handles. e.g.: