[Leica] Luminar 4

[Philippe]

Unfortunately, I saw both :-)

The fist one’s subject is the birds, no questioning this.

The second one is ambiguous, birds or sky, and the editor, read you, might have to make a choice. 

My suggestion was to get back to « focus on the bird », so irrespective of the achievement of restoring that sky, or creating a new one, I’d tilt the balance the way I said.

In either case, both are very attractive.
 
Amities

Philippe



> Le 23 nov. 2019 à 11:01, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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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