Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 ? 11:01, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> a ?crit : > > 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