Luminar Neo’s Supercontrast tool is, well, super
Luminar Neo‘s interface offers many tools, so it may be easy to overlook the Supercontrast tool hiding down at the bottom in the Professional tools.
Luminar Neo‘s interface offers many tools, so it may be easy to overlook the Supercontrast tool hiding down at the bottom in the Professional tools.
In the new Luminar Neo, Skylum has added some great new tools to help save you time. One of these is the ability to remove
LuminarAI has several amazing tools that can help you convey a certain look and feel with an image. One of the tools that rarely gets
When you take hasty photos on your smartphone, sometimes the quality isn’t the best. But fear not — LuminarAI can help! Take your photo into
The key to an arresting close-up portrait is in the eyes. Naturally, nailing focus in camera is your first step, but in post-production there is
Batch processing is a huge time saver in my editing workflow. It allows me to be more efficient and deliver images faster to my clients
In this video article, I’ll show you how I use the Sunrays filter to enhance a sunrise landscape photograph. In this landscape photograph, you’ll see
Whether it be for outdoor images or oppositely poorly lit indoor ones, combining the power of both Aurora and Luminar in my editing workflow helps
Luminar 2018 has some very cool filters. In this article, I’ll show you how I use the Sunrays filter with my drone photographs and how
Welcome to Part 3 of this series. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In this article I’ll show you how to:
For this composite, my goal was to produce a version of my galloping wild horses image that looks like it’s been drawn and woodburned onto an old board. Not sure why, I just thought it would look cool, the inspiration behind many my composites. Having an idea of what you want to make before you start usually produces the best results. But, don’t be so in love with your idea you can’t change as you create your composite.
At this point, I have my horse picture processed and saved as a high resolution TIF file, and have found a nice wood texture I want to use as the background texture. Ideally you want these texture files to be high-resolution also, so that you can print your finished piece later. Using a 400 pixel wide texture will result in a blurry grainy mess, it’s too small to print it big later.
In the digital darkroom, we can take two paths with our images. The first is to use your photo processing software to get your image looking as close to what you saw when you took it. This is your standard digital darkroom workflow, adjusting your exposure, getting rid of spots, cropping, etc., with more of a focus on realism.
The second path is to take that photo and transform it into something completely different. It may be combined with other photos as a composite, have various effects applied, and generally will look completely different from what you started with, but in a good way! Here the focus is on creating something new, using your original image only as the first ingredient. This is compositing, combining multiple images and effects to produce an original piece of art. In this article I’ll take you down the second path, introducing how to use Skylum’s new Luminar 2018 to start doing your own composites. Â