Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] Luminar 4
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:06:46 -0800
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What?s nice about Luminar is its usefulness as a plug-in for both Lightroom 
and Photoshop.

For me it?s not a Lightroom replacement because it doesn?t do keywords or 
ratings. There?s word that those features will be added sometime in 2020.

At this point I don?t think I could give up keywording.

Adam Bridge


> On 2019 Nov  22, at 8:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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