If you shoot events, real estate, or any other style of volume photography, Radiant Photo may be the editing solution you have been looking for. The internet is crowded with plenty of solutions to take the burden of editing copious images out of your day. But most of those require a pay-per-edit fee that can cut into your bottom line. In volume photography, time is money. So, let’s explore how Radiant Photo can help quicken your workflow without lightening your wallet.
What is Radiant Photo?
If you are not familiar with it, Radiant Photo is a photo editor that uses AI or artificial intelligence to analyze an image and automatically apply corrections to your images. Radiant Photo is intelligent enough to detect and edit different parts of a photo differently. For example, Radiant Photo would edit the sky in a photo differently than the rest of the image so that the image is neither over nor underexposed in any area. The software also makes it easy to create your own presets and save them for use later. Radiant Photo works as a plug-in for both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Method
I used a standard method of photographing real estate photos by shooting HDR photos and then combining the images in Photomatix 7. I then imported the finished HDR photos into Lightroom Classic. After opening the photos in Lightroom, I simply need to export them from the library tab of Lightroom to Radiant Photo for batch editing.
From there, I can then choose a standard preset or a custom one for applying to my edit. I have the option of returning the results back to the same directory and can even stack them in Lightroom with the original unedited photo. I can also hide the Radiant Photo window making the whole process seamless, editing just about a hundred photos in about a minute or two.
The results were impressive. Radiant Photo created a consistent look across every image. The edits it created could never have been done by hand so quickly. Not only that, but every image was edited so close to what I needed, that no additional editing was necessary. The savings in time was so substantial, and the results so consistent, that I could see how this software would actually save you money in just a few shoots over pay-per-edit software.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Creates consistent edits
- Easy to use
- Quick
- Edits different parts of an image differently
- Easy to create custom presets
Cons
- Optional maintenance fee for updates (6 months included at time of this article)
- No option for manual editing of an individual part of an image
- No sky replacement feature
Conclusion
Overall if you are a volume photographer and you are looking to quicken your workflow or offload it, Radiant Photo is worth consideration. With no pay-per-edit fees, it can quickly become an investment that adds to your bottom line.
