Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks really impressive! I'll check it out. Thanks! Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG" <lug at leica-users.org> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Cc: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2019 5:01:13 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Luminar 4 Philippe, Is that because I posted the "Before" example as well? What if you just saw the sky replaced example on a stand alone basis? Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 2:09 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Good stuff on the background. But the process kills the light on the birds > and the overall balance as a result. I?d selectively give the whites a > crank on the birds to set them out again. > > Amities > > Philippe > > > > > Le 23 nov. 2019 ? 05:53, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> a ?crit : > > > > I have been fiddling along with Luminar 4 the past few days, seeing it > as a > > valid replacement for the Nik Suite, thanks to DXO making no improvements > > in the latter since they took over, and just making it more expensive and > > cumbersome. Luminar is also developed by the same group who developed > Nik, > > and started this for the MAC initially, but for Windows as well since, > > after selling Nik out to Google. > > > > They have a wonderful sky replacement tool, called AI Sky Enhancer, which > > almost perfectly figures out where the sky ends and land/water begins in > a > > photograph, and adds a sky of our choice. There are canned skies, but we > > can add our own to the library as well, with a menu of adjustments that > can > > be done, including colour temperature and defocus, for a natural feel. > > > > For example, I captured this unusual shot of a Black-browed Albatross and > > Giant Petrel flying in tandem on the Southern Atlantic Ocean last month, > > but had a horrible plain background: > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/SGF/South+Georgia/South+Georgia-20191026-11812.jpg.html > > > > After tweaking it a bit in AI Sky Enhancer, I ended up with this: > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/SGF/South+Georgia/South+Georgia-20191026-11812sky.jpg.html > > > > All in all, all the tools in Luminar 4 work very well, especially the AI > > ones (there are many more), and it is well worth giving it a trial run! > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information