Luminar neo beta11/2/2022 Final image after applying Relight, an included LUT and some basic colour and accent adjustmentsįirstly, let me say that the software I am using is an beta release for early adopters and as such, the software may by now be more advanced and complete. The results of this work can be see in the image below. LUMINAR NEO BETA SKINFinally, I took some of the vibrance out of the image to provide for more natural skin tones and added an Accent which helped balance the background and foreground. BEWARE though, for some reason this version of Luminar Neo doesn’t keep a record of the LUT applied so good luck trying to remember which one you used! Hopefully this will be sorted out in future releases. As it was I elected to use one of the provided LUTs. Mood is basically a LUT selector which gives you the opportunity to modify the colour and tonality in your image using either your own LUTs, LUTs purchased from Skylum or a 3rd party supplier. Once I was reasonably happy with the edit to the hairline all that remained was to modify the image with regards it’s colour pallette which I did using the Mood tool. This is not an easy task given the delicasy of the hair in this area but the results improve with patience. You can see the affect of these changes to the mask in the before and after image below. What I found out was that in order to “soften” the effect where needed it was necessary to erase the mask in these two problematic areas. This initially resulted in a little head scratching as my first attempts at creating a differential lighting scenario hardened the hairline making it look totally unrealistic. I’m a little unsure then how Neo applies different effects to the image when the mask is uniform across the whole image but it does. The way Luminar Neo works with Relight Ai is a little unusual as the mask, as I found out, does not cover say just the face as in the case of other software applications, for example On1 PhotoRAW, but the whole of the image. This is probably a little unfair but I think you might be suprised by the results. Firstly to use Luminar Neo, with what is currently available in the beta version and to compare this to an image modified using PortraitPro Studio. I have decided to process this in two ways. The image I have chosen to work with is one that I “snapped” a few weeks back of frind Chris Welford at an informal gathering that we attended. Even so, this is an excellent opportunity to see if Skylum are heading in the right direction with Luminar Neo. LUMINAR NEO BETA UPDATEIf and when Skylum update the software to include these tools I will return to look at how these might help or hinder portrait development. This is made somewhat more difficult in the case of Luminar Neo though as the version I have does not include any useful portraiture tools so you are left only with the basic tools available in this particular release. Laterly though, products like On1 PhotoRAW have included some useful if limited portraiture tools which reduce the need to take every image into PortraitPro Studio. In my normal work as a photographer I would tend towards tools such as PortraitPro Studio for portrait work. This is no mean task and to pull this off in any meaningful way, Relight Ai woud need some significant understanding of the characteristics of light, it’s direction and intensity. Skylum suggest that using this technology you will be able to completely relight your image so as to affect stylistic as well as cosmetic changes to the image. Relight Ai is designed to allow the editor to effect changes to the background and forground lighting as well as how the light depth changes the image. In this 2-part review, Part 2 I will look at how PortraitPro Studio tackles the same job, I want to take a closer look at Relight Ai as this feature will be of significant interest to portrait photographers. In this version the two stand out features of Luminar Neo are Relight Ai and Sky Replacement although the latter has been a key feature of Luminar since version three. My post yesterday focused mainly on providing my first thoughts about Luminar Neo with respect to the very much cut down beta software available to early adopters.
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