9/20/2023 0 Comments Luminar ai review 2021I also use Photoshop extensively, both for my own images and for training courses. I might need to find all the images of flowers that I took with a macro lens and low ISO for example. It holds over half a million of my images, so at this point to migrate does not make sense for me, and the Catalog functionality would not be sufficient in any case. What about me - Where does it sit in the Nick Church Photography workflow? These photographers will likely use the plug-in mode of the platform. Professional photographers that want to create the sort of image effects that need Photoshop, but either don’t have the Photoshop skills needed (my situation) can’t justify the time needed to use Photoshop for the more simple tasks. These photographers will likely use the whole app in its standalone form Catalog module and all. There are two groups of photographers that will get great value from Luminar NeoĮnthusiast photographers that want a single app to manage all their editing needs, without the combined complexity of Lightroom and Photoshop. Here’s the thing: yes, I could do all of that in Photoshop, but this took me 27 seconds. Then a little sunray from the window for good measure, and removed the light switch on the wall to finish things up. Then I used the ‘Re-Light’ feature to increase the amount of light falling naturally on the face (much smarter than simply increasing the exposure). Then, heading over to the ‘Face’ section, I added treatments to the skin (which has already detected the areas to affect and which to leave alone) and adjusted the slider until I got the improvement I was looking for. To get this image I used the tools in the ‘Essentials’ section, much like I would in Lightroom Classic. Here’s a before and after the ‘Luminar’ treatment: But it IS performing operations automatically that mimic what photographers do manually, and slowly! The AI works out where the face, the light, the background is, so you can focus on how you want to treat those areas with a single slider. It’s not ‘learning’ your editing style, it’s not editing for you as that’s a whole different ball-game (argument). Sure, Luminar Neo does not have the full power of Photoshop, but you also don’t need to do an evening-course at a local college to use it! Artificial IntelligenceĪI is a term applied to various editing platforms at the moment, and where AI is used here it’s sensible and controlled. The sheer useability of these tools shines through here. This cloning is more like Photoshop’s approach of allowing you to set a source area and brush it into the new bit, replacing as you go. Professional: Manual dodging and burning, colour hue adjustments and cloning. Portrait: A set of extremely good re-touching tools for face, body, skin Once you’ve got your image looking how you want it, you can move on to those more advanced settings, that use AI to give you much more creativity:Ĭreative: Changing the lighting, adding sunrays, creating matte effects, dialling in a LUT and more This is going to be a great first port of call for beginners less familiar with the array of edit tools that platforms like this provide. Presets ModuleĪs the name suggests, this is where photographers can dial in a ‘look’ in a single-click to their images. This Catalog functionality (or limits thereof) will likely be the determining factor about whether you’re going to jump in fully to use this platform for everything, or whether (like me) you use the product in ‘plug-in’ mode alongside your existing image-management environment. But for many photographers that I work with in my coaching programmes, the endless options in Lightroom can be daunting, and so this will be enough for many. Note that there are far fewer options than Lightroom Classic here for importing, adding metadata, keywords and searching your photos. As well as categorising by date, it has folders and albums for you to organise things. If you’re considering using Luminar Neo as your main editing platform, then this is where all your raw files will live. If you’ve used Lightroom Classic then this will be familiar.
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