[Leica] Luminar 4

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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 à 05:53, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> >
> > 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
> >
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